What makes this course unique?
Designed and created by language teachers who combine a passion for environmental issues with rock-solid teaching experience and top-level teaching experience. We live the same challenges as you; busy teaching schedules, getting something together for your next lesson, and the challenges of fitting into set syllabuses and coursebooks. We also bring the expertise gained from our combined teaching, teacher development, and academic management backgrounds and knowledge gained from the Cambridge DELTA, an MA dissertation in participant experience on an online language course, and a commitment to our own professional development.
What will I get from this course?
If you take this course, you will inspire your learners to engage with environmental issues, converse in the international dialogue on sustainability and empower them to take positive action on the climate emergency in their language learning lives and beyond.
What is included in the course?
Take this course and you will benefit from:
- The shared knowledge and experience of a supportive international group of language teachers
- The experience, knowledge, and passion of the instructor
- Stimulating content to foster discussion and knowledge construction
- Discussion boards and video link up
- A beautiful e-certificate on completion
Fantastic instructors
Your instructor is:
- passionate about language teaching and sustainability
- better able to support you on the intersection between language teaching and environmental issues than well-known language teaching authority figures or climate scientists
- highly experienced and highly trained in language teaching and online teacher development
- empathetic to the challenges you face
- they were there too until they found the solutions
Owain Llewellyn - Founder
A passionate environmentalist and language teaching professional who once took part in direct action to prevent oil companies drilling nearby.
Since 2012 he has run ELTsustainable giving teachers the world over the opportunity to reach thousands of learners with engaging environment-themed lessons.
Owain is a teacher of English, teacher trainer and academic manager. He’s currently writing an MA dissertation examining the learner experience in online language courses.
As a language teacher he saw a new opportunity to raise awareness of environmental issues and bring the dialogue about sustainability into the classroom.
Ben Crompton - Instructor
In 2020 he was a student on this ‘Language Teaching for the Planet Course’, which has transformed his teaching and fired him up to engage more students and teachers in the sustainability debate.
Ben is a teacher and teacher trainer and has worked in ELT since 2007. When he was a teenager, he became involved in conservation projects in his local community, and has been passionate about environmental issues ever since. For the past 10 years he has been based in Andalucía in Spain and has worked as Director of Studies and Centre Manager. He specialises in teaching Young Learners, troublesome teenagers, and EdTech, and regularly presents workshops and talks at conferences across Spain. He is currently completing his Diploma in teaching with Trinity.
