Km Zero is a collection of ideas and tools to help teachers, students and families learn how to exploit the potential of digital learning environments for learning online and remotely. You’ll find here webinars, video lessons, educational resources, multimedia content and much more.
Distance teaching training and resources
Training videosand useful articles to help you implement distance learning and deliver your English classes remotely from home.
Lindsay Warwick helps us to get started with teaching online with this handy ‘first steps guide’. You’ll find practical advice on transfering your face-to-face teaching environment into an online setting, how to choose the right tools, how to achieve learning objectives and how to engage learners in an online lesson.
Phil Brownsword
Reading and writing are tested extensively in external and university entrance exams, but our lessons to develop these skills needn’t be dull! In this talk we’ll look at some activities that will get our students working collaboratively to get better at reading and writing – activities that will improve their skills and bring our lessons to life.
Getting to grips with feedback and assessment online
Michael Brand
We’ve moved to teaching online, so it follows that feedback and assessment need to be dealt with remotely too. This transition has thrown up challenges but also opportunities for us teachers to add more strings to our assessment bow. In this webinar we’ll consider practical ways of dealing with both formative and summative assessment in an online setting.
Harry Waters
With our lessons having been moved online at short notice, secondary teachers have had to learn fast. In this webinar we look to provide support. We'll consider how to get the most out of our existing course material in an online sitting - which activities make sense? Which might we need to tweak? We'll also look at some handy online tools and consider how to motivate our learners, all with the aim of teaching online and winning.
Alyssa Alexander
Help! There’s such a range of abilities in my class! Lots of my students need extra support and some need extra challenge! Secondary teachers know every student matters, but it’s sometimes difficult to attend to everyone in a diverse class. How can scaffolding help us? How can we best utilize collaborative learning? What about digital tools? This practical session will propose strategies and activities to help us meet the demands of a mixed ability class.
We invite you to join us for our Pearson English Spring Days online learning event. Taking place from 4th – 15th May, 2020, you’ll be able to learn from over 40 webinar sessions from more than 20 leading experts in ELT, including plenaries from Jeremy Harmer and Dr. Ken Beatty.
This webinar discusses the tools and strategies required to help motivate and maintain focus for exam students studying in an online classroom environment.
We’ll be looking at techniques on how to encourage student-directed learning (SDL) and self-motivation, as well as ways to assign tasks and give feedback.
How to teach exam students online with Gold Experience?
As many teachers and students are currently moving their classes online, Billie Jago will deliver a webinar to share useful tools and strategies to motivate exam students and help them maintain focus.
Distance Teaching and Learning: Useful Tips for Making it Work
By Dr Ken Beatty
In this webinar, Dr. Ken Beatty, an expert on online teaching and learning, will focus on the needs of teachers and learners of all ages and at all levels. He'll explore how to get organized, plan effectively, stay motivated and keep learners engaged and answer key questions about online distance learning.
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Digital Solutions for Online Learning
By Christina Cavage
Learn how you can leverage digital tools to deliver course content in an online environment. This session covers the how-to’s of using MyEnglishLab and other tools to keep your course moving and your students motivated.
Using Versant Placement Test as a Home-Based Assessment
By Nick Laul
Is your program in need of a home-based testing solution that will allow you to assess your students’ English language skills if your primary test is not available? In this session, you will learn about Versant Placement Test and how you can implement it with your program.
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MyEnglishLab: Your Solution for Anytime, Anywhere Learning
By Janay Phillips
MyEnglishLab, a Language Management System, provides solutions for distance learning, anytime, anywhere. This session will walk you through the steps of registering your product, creating a course, and utilizing the wide array of tools available within MyEnglishLab.
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How to deliver an engaging online lesson to teenage learners webinar
By Michael Brand
In this webinar, we’ll look at how can we continue our lessons with teens in an online setting. We’ll consider planning, pre-lesson tasks and follow-up, digital delivery tools and platforms, the use of video and ways to build in interaction all with the aim of helping English teachers of teens to find their feet in the world of online teaching.
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Our online teaching expert, Dr. Ken Beatty, has created this series of seven short videos to help inspire you and offer practical advice when taking a distance learning approach.
With the Pearson digital resources, you can transition your course online and ensure your students have the resources they need to continue learning.
The following roadmap will help you utilize MyEnglishLab in conjunction with eTexts and Active Teach in your online course delivery, both synchronously and asynchronously.
Online Area, MyEnglishLab, Apps, etext... thousands of interactive exercises to be assigned remotely to students, complete with audio and video content for studying and revising at home.
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Professional Development
You’ll find a complete library of resources to develop your skills as an English teacher.
Pearson Academy training videos. Besides the webinars already scheduled for March and April, you’ll find a complete library of all our webinars held to date on how to develop your skills as an English teacher.
How can we best prepare students for the world of work? Education is not just about preparing students to succeed at specific subjects, but also about preparing them to contribute to society. A key part of this is what is often called ‘career skills’, or those skills which will make our students valued employees and colleagues.
Join Rachael for a series of training videos which explore how you can implement teaching career skills into your classroom
With more work than ever before happening online, possessing the skills and tools to work on digital platforms is no longer only an advantage, but has become vitally important. The 21st-century digital citizen understands the consequences of his or her online actions and can confidently and effectively navigate the ever-increasing online world.
We are offering free 60-day access to our Digital Citizenship Online course.
We´re working together with RTVE in Spain to provide audiovisual educational content for children from 3 to 10 years old to help them continue their English learning during these critical times.
Play in a world populated with Poptropica English characters where learning English vocabulary is easy and fun. Build towns and compete in exciting games.
This app comes with our Primary courses Poptropica English and Potropica English Islands courses. Find out more information here.
A wide variety of resources available online for you and for your students: student course resources, classroom resources, webinars, podcasts, and much more.
Find downloadable grammar resources for adult learners with the Global Scale of English Teacher Toolkit.
The GSE Teacher Toolkit is a free, online database that brings together learning objectives, grammar and vocabulary in one place, all mapped to the GSE and CEFR.
A wide variety of resources available online for you and for your students: student course resources, classroom resources, webinars, podcasts, and much more.
Join Amy Malloy for a supportive exploration of how and why our family can respond in stressful times, with practical ideas and takeaways to help support positive mental health for the whole family.
Mindfulness practice teaches us to pay proper attention to our thoughts, emotions, sensations, in a state of calm and clear vision that allows us to make the best decisions for any purposes.
Here you’ll find a short video from Ashley Lodge, Pearson's expert in the practice of Mindfulness in the workplace, a PDF to download and an audio recording to try mindfulness at home.
Amy Malloy introduces what mindfulness is and how to apply it in the classroom. You’ll a podcast to discuss how mindfulness can be built into ELT practice, a series of training videos with practical activities and guided meditations to try and handouts for use in class and much more.