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Green Educator Conference – Teaching For A Better Future
Online Conference | Friday, 6 June 2025 | 11:45 – 17:30 (GMT)
Join a powerful day of inspiration, innovation, and action at Teaching for a Better Future – a dynamic online conference for educators who believe language teaching can be a force for environmental and social change. This isn’t just another ELT event – it’s a call by educators on three continents to transform classrooms into catalysts for a greener, more conscious world.
Highlights of the Day:
Gamify Sustainability with Georgia Papamichailidou as she opens her “Diary of a Green Leader” and reveals how games, storytelling, and playful leadership can spark eco-consciousness in learners and staff alike.
Write for the Planet with Marla Lise and George Jacobs. Discover how writing—whether reflective or activist—can empower both young and adult learners to express their environmental values and inspire change.
Teach the SDGs through Speaking & Listening with Hannah Tucker-Bloom. Dive into an integrated curriculum model that connects English learning to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in meaningful, level-appropriate ways.
Planet-based Classroom Hacks with Harry Waters. From mindful greetings to mini green projects, learn practical tweaks you can implement tomorrow to weave sustainability into your lessons—without extra prep.
Think Green, Teach Smart with Marcela Villan. Learn how systems thinking can enrich your ELT practice and empower students to see the interconnectedness between language, society, and our planet.
More Green, Less Screen with Lucy Crichton. Discover playful, screen-free project ideas for young learners that nurture environmental awareness through gardening, nature play, and mud kitchens.
Empower Green Women Leaders with Stephany Carrasco Sardon. Explore a bold, Latin American initiative showcasing women-led environmental projects, and rethink how storytelling, design, and education intersect for real impact.
Whether you teach kids or adults, lead an organisation or a classroom, you’ll come away with practical tools, fresh perspectives, and a renewed sense of purpose.
All attendees will receive a Green Action ELT Certificate of Attendance
VIEW THE FULL PROGRAMME HERE
REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE
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WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
New Year Check In
Friday 31 January 2025
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Presentation 1 (Peter Holly): Sustainability Development Goals, Inner Development Goals and 21st Century Skills.
Presentation 2 (Chris Graham): Can anger help our students engage with the climate crisis; and should we encourage our learners to be eco warriors?
Presentation 3 (Anca de Vries): Making the climate crisis fun in the English classroom.
Presentation 4 (Chris Etchells) : Help in setting up and running a school Eco Team.
Watch videos of these presentations now at https://www.youtube.com/@greenactionelt
Intersectionality, ELT and climate change – piecing it all together
Friday 27 September 2024
The causes and the negative impact of the climate crisis are interconnected with a large number of socio-economic, political and cultural issues both local and global. The two talks and the subsequent discussion will explore these connections and their impact and suggest some implications for EFL teachers seeking to integrate climate change topics into their lessons.
Rose Aylett is a freelance training consultant and CELTA tutor, based in Liverpool. She has been working in ELT for almost 20 years, predominantly in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and has a long-standing professional interest in critical pedagogy, global citizenship and social justice education. She speaks regularly at national and international conferences about how to teach controversial issues, promoting critical dialogue in the classroom, and the integration of critical perspectives into ELT.
Zarina Subhan originally qualified as a scientist, but has been working in the field of ELT for over 30 years. She has taught at all levels, in both private and government institutions and worked worldwide as a teacher and teacher educator. Having worked both in and with educational institutions, she also has experience working with educational policy makers, NGOs, community leaders, local and state governments and in a variety of training contexts. Zarina’s time is now spent between delivering teacher training, conference presentations, speaking on educational topics, and writing. Having worked in the science, educational and development sectors, her interests are the neurology of learning; CLIL; continuing professional development for teachers; inclusive and sustainable education.
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