This interactive workshop will look at the Artificial intelligence and English language teaching: Preparing for the future report’s updated findings around listening skills. The speakers will also share some criteria for evaluating AI tools, and explore how two user-friendly AI tools can be used for planning lessons and making listening practice more engaging and effective for your students.
About the speakers:
Shilpi Jain, Teacher educator, India
With over a decade’s experience as a teacher and a coordinator in a reputed public school, and a short corporate job stint abroad, Shilpi Jain, on return to India, got actively involved in the Teach India project, a CSR initiative of the Times Group. Presently, she is working as a freelance consultant with the British Council providing services to NGOs, schools and institutions pan India. She was the master trainer and mentor for the CBSE CBE (Competency based education) project. She co-moderated an online course for teachers on Electronic Village Online EVO23 that offers several free Professional Development courses for teachers, sponsored by TESOL CALL-IS (i.e. Computer Assisted language learning - Interest Section).
Being a lifelong learner, she has completed several certificate courses from EVO, British Council, Teach for India and NILE, London UK, as part of her own professional development.
She has also completed Module 1 of the Cambridge Delta recently.
Nandita Sarkar, Faculty of English, Central Institute of Tool Design , Hyderabad
Nandita Sarkar brings over 15 years of teaching experience at both the school and college levels. She has held positions such as Head of the Department, Post Graduate Teacher, Trained Graduate Teacher, Assistant Professor, and Language Trainer. Her expertise includes training students in Employability Skills, Technical English, Communication Skills, Life Skills, and General English, particularly at the Central Institute of Tool Design (MSME) in Hyderabad.
Additionally, Nandita has freelanced as a content developer for publication houses, creating English Literature and Language materials for CBSE, ICSE, and the Telangana State Board. She participated in the British Council-sponsored Action Research Mentoring Scheme (ARMS) Project as a mentee. Nandita is also a recipient of the British Council Scholarship, which fully funded her M.Sc. in TESOL & CALL from the University of Stirling, Scotland, U.K.