International House John Haycraft Classroom Exploration Scholarship

This award is aimed at practising teachers to present the results of their classroom research.  Deadline 27th June 2011 - THIS SCHOLARSHIP IS NOW CLOSED 

In 2006 Jane Willis and Corony Edwards won a British Council ELT Innovation award for their book Teachers Exploring Tasks in English Language Teaching and donated their award to finance a scholarship to the IATEFL Exeter Conference in 2008. The interest in and quality of applications for this scholarship indicated that it should be offered annually.

International House kindly stepped in to 'adopt' this scholarship and there will now be two scholarships awarded annually. The scholarship is named in memory of the founder of International House, John Haycraft.

The aim of the scholarship is to encourage teachers to embark on or to continue small-scale classroom exploration projects to shed light on learner/learner, learner/teacher aspects of the classroom language learning experience.

DEADLINE - June 27th 2011

The award consists of:

•  a conference registration
• £1500 towards travel expenses
• a year's IATEFL membership

To apply

• Teachers interested in applying should submit a research outline with its rationale (between 400 and 500 words).
• Applicants can enter projects already under way or planned for the academic year 11/12.
• A progress report or a final report on the work will be presented at IATEFL Glasgow 2012.
• Applicants should send a passport size photograph (which will appear in the conference programme if you win)
• A panel will select the winner by 30th July 2011 so that they have time to plan their research over the coming academic year.

Selection Criteria

1. The project should be small-scale and classroom based.
2. The research topic should be suitable for its social and educational context.
3. Its objectives should be clearly defined and achievable.
4. The work should be original/innovative in some way.
5. The process and/or outcomes should be useful to other teachers/trainers.

PLEASE APPLY USING OUR ONLINE APPLICATION FORM, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE YOUR CV AND PHOTO READY TO UPLOAD