The document discusses various educational methods such as remote teaching, distance learning, blended learning, and team teaching, particularly focusing on the British Council's involvement in Project Ceibal in Uruguay, which provides English language learning to primary students via remote teachers. It details the evolution of the program, including its expansions and the role of technology in enhancing language education. The document also addresses the necessary support and training for teachers in adapting to these new teaching methods.

1. Remote teaching, distance
learning, team teaching or
blended learning?
Graham Stanley
graham.Stanley@britishcouncil.org

2. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
• The British Council works in 6
continents and 110 countries, with
the aim of bringing high quality
English materials to every learner or
teacher who wants them.
• We have 2,400 staff teaching
English directly to more than
350,000 students and trainee
teachers a year in over 80 centres,
partnership branches and on
English http://www.britishcouncil.org/about projects around the world.

3. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
What happens when you attempt
to use cutting-edge online
technology and post-method
pedagogies to solve specific
educational problems?
•What solutions are there?
•How successfully can they be implemented?
•What does it mean for learners?
•What about teacher training?
•What about teacher development?
•What does it mean for teachers?

4. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Plan Ceibal is a Uruguayan project, developed
by MEC, the Uruguayan Ministry of Education
and Culture; the National
Telecommunications company ANTEL,
(Administración Nacional de
Telecomunicaciones); the Board of Public
Education, ANEP (Administración Nacional de
Educación Pública); and LATU (Laboratorio
Tecnológico del Uruguay).
Plan Ceibal
http://www.ceibal.edu.uy

5. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
• Started 2007 with distribution of XO-1 laptops
(ceibalitas)
• By 2009 Uruguay became first country in world to
have given one laptop to every primary school
student
• By 2009, 350,000 children & 16,000 teachers had
received ceibalitas
• No cost wireless Internet connection in all state
schools
• Fiber optic connections progressively replacing
these
• Video conferencing equipment being installed in all
schools
Plan Ceibal
http://www.ceibal.edu.uy

6. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
• In 2012 the British Council was selected by Plan
Ceibal to project manage Ceibal en Inglés (Ceibal
English), delivering remote teaching via video
conferencing in Uruguayan primary schools.
• Goal = provide access to English language
learning to primary students (grades 4-6) and
their teachers all over Uruguay.
• Because of a lack of trained/qualified English
teachers, Ceibal English uses remote teachers
(RTs) via video conferencing
• Additionally, classroom teachers (CTs) are taught
English via moderator-supported English course
(LearnEnglish Pathways)
Ceibal English
http://uruguay.britishcouncil.org

7. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
• Proof of concept pilot phase 2012
- 20 primary schools; 1,000 Year 4
learners (aged 10-11)
• March 2013 expansion: 500
classes; 96 schools; Years 4,5 & 6
• July 2013 expansion: 1,000 classes
• March 2014 expansion: 2,100
classes
• By June 2015: Total of c.4,000
classes (c. 100,000+ learners)
Ceibal English
http://uruguay.britishcouncil.org

8. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
3 x 45 minutes per wk.
Lesson A – RT via VC
Lessons B & C – CT
RTs from Uruguay, Argentina,
Philippines, UK
Team Teaching
CTs learning English through self-access
course
Remote Classes

9. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Detailed scripted lesson plans
for A, B & C
Coordination to allow CT to
do the B & C practice
lessons
RT & CT have weekly
coordination in Spanish
Materials

10. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Online technology is becoming
more commonplace in language
education. How does this change
the role of the teacher?
•Remote teaching
•Distance learning
•Blended learning
•Team teaching

11. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Distance learning
a method of studying in which lectures are broadcast or classes are conducted
by correspondence or over the Internet, without the student's needing to attend
a school or college.

12. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Blended learning
a formal education program in which a student learns at least in part through
online delivery of content and instruction with some element of student control
over time, place, path or pace

13. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Team teaching
coordinated teaching by a team of teachers working together

14. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Remote teaching
teaching of learners using an instructor based in another
physical location

15. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Technology requirements for
teaching live online

16. Maria Bossa (Argentina) and
Ayat Tawel (Egypt)
Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/innovations-learning-technologies-english-language-teaching

17. New skillset required for teachers
Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?

18. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
The importance of ‘presence’
The importance of teamwork
RT Daisy & CT Omar RT Maria Eugenia

19. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Supporting teachers

20. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Supporting CTs and RTs: face-to-face training

21. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Supporting CTs and RTs: online training and observation

22. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Sharing student work
Between classes

23. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
RT
Mariela Masuyama
and
CT Maria Ines
Cuadrado
and
CT Andres Amilivia

24. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?

25. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?

26. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?

27. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Results: Assessment and Evaluation: surveys
Evaluation of digital materials of the programme (songs, videos, games, images)

28. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Results: Assessment and Evaluation: Testing
August 2013 (baseline)
and
December 2013
Aims:
Evaluate differences:-
Pilot groups
March 2013 groups
July 2013 groups
Groups not studying English
grammar/vocab test only
Excluded children studying English outside
school

29. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
Results: Assessment and Evaluation: Testing
Average scores by grade and time of test

30. Remote teaching, distance learning, team teaching or blended learning?
“Times have changed, teachers
have evolved…And that is just the
beginning – because just as
technologies have begun to change
the way that English is learned in
the classroom, even bigger
changes seem to be taking place
outside it.”
Martin Peacock, in Motteram, G (Ed.)(2013)
Innovations in learning technologies for English
Language Teaching, London: British Council

31. Remote teaching, distance
learning, team teaching or
blended learning?
Thank you!
Graham Stanley
graham.Stanley@britishcouncil.org