This webinar will focus on the NEAS Quality Area N: Foundation Programs. The purpose is to provide you with an insight into the quality requirements for Foundation Programs, to ensure the delivery and management of Foundation Programs is aligned to the NEAS Quality Assurance Framework.
Archives: Courses
Transnational Delivery
Aligned to Area Quality M: Transnational Delivery, this webinar explores the trends, opportunities and obstacles that have been identified in Transnational Delivery . It also reflects on the relationship between AREA Quality H: Online Delivery and Transnational Delivery.
CPD points: 1
ELT Professionals
Aligned to Area Quality I: ELT Professionals, this webinar will focus on the process and benefits of becoming a NEAS ELT Professional.
CPD points: 1
Thailand Workshop Series
Featuring outstanding virtual presentations and content from eminent Australian and Thai English Language Centres, NEAS Australia is ‘GOING GLOCAL’ and showcasing innovation in English Language Teaching.
NEAS Australia is conducting a specialist workshop for strategic decision makers of English Language Colleges and English language teaching professionals in Thailand. The objective of the special initiative is to deepen industry links and develop new partnerships for the education providers of our two nations.
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The workshop focuses on two themes:
- Quality Management of English Language Programs; and
- Best Practice in English as a Medium of Instruction.
Live Webinar – Friday 18 March 2022
9:00am to 11:00am (Bangkok Time)
1:00pm to 3:00pm (Sydney Time)
NEAS is excited to be featuring the best of Australian education in English language teaching. Presented on NEAS Online, NEAS highlights the exciting teaching and learning innovations of High Schools, Vocational Colleges, Universities, and English Language Centres.
This event is a must for education providers of both countries aspiring to apply best practice and form new partnerships.
Workshop Series: Quality Management of English Language Programs and Best Practice in English as a Medium of Instruction
In the weeks leading up to this workshop, NEAS will release pre-recorded presentations addressing two themes:
- Quality Management of English Language Programs designed for leaders, academic managers, administrators, and decision-makers involved in English Language Centres in Thailand; and
- Best Practice in English as a Medium of Instruction designed for teachers at High Schools, Vocational Colleges, Universities, and English Language Centres that are using English as a medium of instruction in Thailand.
The live workshop will be held on Friday 18th of March from 9:00 am to 11:00 am (Bangkok Time)| 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm (Sydney Time) and will feature keynote presenters sharing their personal experience and practical techniques.
Live Panel
Workshop attendees, managers and teachers, are invited to attend a virtual panel featuring the keynote speakers and representatives from NEAS, the Australian Embassy in Thailand, and the Ministry of Education of Thailand.
This activity was supported by the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment and the Australian Trade and Investment Commission.
This activity is supported by ACUMEN, Sannam S4’s Education Services.
Planning for Professional Development for the Coming Year
CPD points: 1
Professional development for teachers and academic managers has never been more important! In a post-COVID world as international students are slowly returning to our campuses, our teachers face new challenges. How can we be sure they’ll be ready to take on the challenges required? How can we attract and retain teachers in an ELT landscape that has been transformed? Dr Patrick Pheasant shares insight into the design and implementation of innovative PD programs that will (re)inspire and (re)motivate your team members.
Improving the Student Orientation
Aligned with NEAS Quality Assurance Framework B: The Student Experience, this workshop explores ways in which the student orientation can be enhanced. The workshop is suitable for all professional staff, including Academic Managers, Students Services staff and Marketing staff.
CPD points: 1
Developing Your Benchmarking Toolbox
Using IELTS to advance your teaching career
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Professional development is an integral part of a teacher’s career.
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This video showcases the resources and opportunities that the IELTS partners have developed to guide teachers throughout their career.
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Additional IELTS Resources
Practice Makes Perfect website
Resources to get the most out of Cambridge practice tests.
The IELTS Teacher Training Program
The free IELTS Teacher Training Program has been developed by IDP IELTS for teachers to better understand the IELTS assessment criteria via an online learning platform. Interactive exercises engage teachers, enhancing teaching performance in language schools.
Student Engagement Strategies for English Language Teaching
Facilitated by Dr Patrick Pheasant, this workshop draws on insights from research undertaken with twelve adult international students of English as a Second Language in 2012 and research with online English language teaching by NEAS Endorsed Centres conducted in 2020 during COVID19. This workshop imparts practical advice and strategies for English Language Teachers teaching face to face and online through metaxis, metacognition and meta-emotion to help create a transformative experience.
As Chief Executive Officer at NEAS Australia, Patrick brings 20 years’ experience in applying drama, TESOL and teacher training methodologies across ELICOS, high school, vocational education, higher education and corporate sectors in Japan, the Netherlands, the United States and Australia to a dynamic systems perspective with a global outlook.
Patrick has held multiple senior management positions in education and has extensive experience in change management, including a graduate management qualification from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM).
Quality Assurance 101
How do I become a NEAS Quality Endorsed centre?
This webinar is for anyone who would like to learn more about NEAS and how its independent Quality Assurance services benefit the global ELT community. We will take you through the fundamentals of quality assurance and outline its significance in the current global landscape. The steps to applying for Quality Endorsement will be made clear along with the requirements for maintaining Endorsement through continuous improvement activities. Information about additional NEAS benefits, such as professional development opportunities as well as marketing and reputation building will also be provided.
Vietnam Workshop B
Workshop B: Online Delivery and Teacher Professional Development
This workshop focuses on techniques for teachers at English Language Centres in Vietnam.
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Extending on six pre-conference presentations released in the four weeks leading up to the live workshop and panel, this workshop features keynote presenters from RMIT Vietnam and Cambridge Assessment English. They will present their experience on being proactive in professional development for online learning and teaching and providing quality online qualifications such as CELTA. The keynote presentations will be followed by a live virtual panel featuring the keynote speakers and representatives from NEAS, the Australian Embassy, the National Foreign Languages Project and the Ministry of Education and Training.
There are a series of pre-workshop presentations you are encouraged to explore before accessing the main Workshop B ‘live’ event on Friday 5 Nov 2021 | 9:00am to 11:00am ICT | 1:00pm to 3:00pm AEDT.
Audience:
English language teachers teaching at English Language Centres in Vietnam.
Presenters:
Academic managers and experienced teachers of Australian and Vietnamese English Language Centres from universities, vocational education and training, high schools and independent English language schools and key organisations supporting the ELT community in Vietnam.
Key Learning Objectives:
Participants in this workshop will:
- Learn about online delivery of English language teaching and teacher professional development
- Learn about different techniques being used by NEAS endorsed members to maintain student focused approaches to teaching English online
- Receive course certificates and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points of six (6) points.
This activity received grant funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Grant Program 2021.
A Colleges Financial Journey – Case Study
This webinar is facilitated by David Jepsen (B.Com, CAANZ) and is ideal for ELICOS and VET managers, directors and business owners seeking to understand and manage their financial pathway and success. A case study of a colleges business life cycle will be the basis of the webinar. Discussing the colleges initial set up and registration including ASQA financial viability requirements, start up, growth, maturity and sale. With a focus on the financial facets of each stage to maximise financial outcomes for shareholders.
CPD points: 1
The new TOEFL Essentials test: Scoring, Concordance and Research for the ELT community
Complementing its existing portfolio of high stakes quality English tests such as the TOEFL iBT, this new TOEFL Essentials test is an adaptive test covering both academic and general content, providing a fresh test format with a more affordable price point. This workshop will outline the new score scale, concordance tables to both the TOEFL iBT and CEFR levels, as well as findings from research conducted in 2021 of over 5,000 TOEFL Essentials test takers.
This webinar will be co-facilitated by Dr Spiros Papageorgiou – Managing Senior Research Scientist, ETS Center for Language Education and Assessment Research, and Dr Aleksandr Voninski, Associate Director, ETS Client Relations (Australasia).
CPD points: 1
University of Queensland: Responding to COVID-19 disruption
In this webinar, James Hourn, Head of Enterprise Sales at ReadyTech, will interview the team from Institute of Continuing and TESOL Education (ICTE) at the University of Queensland (UQ).
The ICTE, UQ team will unpack some critical areas of discussion in the current fragile international education sector, including:
1. COVID-19’s impact and how ICTE, UQ is navigating through this period of change.
2. How ICTE aims to leverage technology and innovation in their regeneration plan for the next two years.
3. Why ICTE chose their current student management system, JR Plus (A ReadyTech brand), as their technology partner.
If you would like to read the white paper by Readytech visit this link
CPD points: 1
Using your data to monitor the health of your institution and make timely, informed, and strategic decisions.
Have you noticed the pattern? Their decisions are based on data.
What about your institution? Are you also using your data to monitor the health of your college and make timely, informed, and strategic decisions?
In this webinar, Santiago will share how some institutions are transforming their reporting and decision-making processes using their Student Management System, their data and Microsoft Power BI as their business intelligence and analytics tool.
Vietnam Workshop A
Workshop A: Quality Management of English Language Centres
This workshop is designed for leaders, academic managers, administrators, and decisionmakers involved in English Language Centres in Vietnam.
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Building on seven pre-workshop presentations released in the weeks leading up to the live workshop and panel, keynote presenters from RMIT University Vietnam, Vietnam USA Society English Centres and ACET IDP English Centre for Education and Training will present on their personal experiences with quality assurance in online learning and teaching and embedding quality in the curriculum to improve student outcomes. The presentations will be followed by a live virtual panel featuring the keynote speakers and representatives from NEAS, the Australian Embassy, the National Foreign Languages Project and the Ministry of Education and Training.
There are a series of pre-workshop presentations you are encouraged to explore before accessing the main Workshop A ‘live’ event on Friday 1 Oct 2021 | 9:00am to 11:00am ICT | 12:00pm to 2:00pm AEST.
Audience:
Leaders, academic managers, administrators and decisionmakers involved in English Language Centres in Vietnam.
Presenters:
Senior managers and business owners of Australian and Vietnamese English Language Centres from universities, vocational education and training, high schools and independent English language schools
Key Learning Objectives:
Participants in this workshop will:
- Learn about quality assurance of English language teaching at universities, high schools, vocational colleges, independent English language centres and online English language providers.
- Learn about different techniques being used by NEAS endorsed members to maintain student focused approaches to quality assurance.
- Receive course certificates and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points of six (6) points
This activity received grant funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade under the Australia-Vietnam Enhanced Economic Engagement Grant Program 2021.
English Language Teachers as Leaders
This workshop is for school teachers from Language Institutes and universities and schools interested in professional development, continuous ongoing quality improvements and innovative teaching techniques for English language.
This workshop is delivered by Dr Patrick Pheasant, CEO of NEAS Australia – Australia’s leading expert in Independent, Non-Governmental Quality Assurance of English Language Teaching. Please note this meeting will be recorded. Full terms and conditions in the confirmation email.
Life competencies: A three-dimensional framework for this century (and beyond)
Life competencies can be integrated into any subject, but they are particularly suitable for teaching English. Learning an additional language already involves many of the identified competencies such as communication, collaboration, and critical thinking. This means there is lots of scope to develop these skills further, in an integrated way, through the teaching of English. This webinar will look at how Cambridge approaches these life competencies across the learning journey.
Specifically, we will focus on what the Cambridge Language and Pedagogy Research Team have identified as life competencies and their relation to traditional models of 21st-century skills and foundational aspects of language learning. We will also explore how the understanding of the competencies translates into learning outcomes and highlight practical activities that teachers can easily integrate into secondary and adult level language lessons.
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Experiential Approaches in Online Language Assessment Training
Experiential Approaches in Online Language Assessment Training
Conference 21.20
Presented by
Dr Marie Yeo
Regional Language Centre Singapore
The use of classroom-based formative assessment (CBFA) has become increasingly common, even more so now due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers may have to implement formative assessment practices such as peer-assessment, self-assessment and reflection or use e-portfolios to assess their learners, yet they themselves may never have experienced these activities.
Approaches, such as Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle, have been shown to be highly effective for adult learning, especially in sustaining changes in beliefs and practices. In this presentation, I describe the experiences of teachers of English from the ASEAN region enrolled in an online language assessment course as they engage concretely in activities related to “feedback and feedforward”, Assessment as Learning, and Formative Use of Summative Test (FUST). Through these concrete first-hand experiences, the teachers were able to gain a deeper understanding of formative assessment concepts and principles, and the benefits and challenges of applying them in their specific teaching contexts.
This presentation offers insights into CBFA and teacher professional development in online and face-to-face contexts and is intended to enhance both the assessment literacy of language teachers and the training delivery of teacher educators, especially those working in the ASEAN context.
Presenter Bio
Marie Yeo is a Senior Language Specialist at the SEAMEO Regional Language Center (RELC) in Singapore, where she teaches on a range of teacher education programs. For the past 30 years, she has taught English, trained teachers and trainers and managed educational projects in countries including Australia, China, Cambodia, Singapore and Vietnam. Her current areas of interest are Language Assessment, Teacher Professional Development and Blended Learning. Marie is currently Editor-in-Chief of the RELC Journal and her most recent publications include a guidebook on teacher professional development, a chapter on blended learning and a journal article on academic publishing.
CPD points: 1
Finance Workshop
Finance Workshop
Conference 21.19
Presented by
Steven Forgione
Steven Forgione, Client Director, Bentleys NSW will present a workshop on understanding financial statements & financial ratio analysis.
Presenter Bio
With nearly 20 years’ professional experience in this sector, Steven specialises in providing accounting, tax and general business advice to private clients and small to medium sized businesses. Steven works with a broad spectrum of clients and individuals throughout the entire business lifecycle of planning, structuring and growth. Steven also has expertise in delivering a range of accounting and financial management training courses to help clients enhance their knowledge of financial principals.
CPD points: 1
