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You\u2019ll receive weekly recordings of each class, full transcripts of the text chat during class, assigned readings and a PDF of the PowerPoint slides. Furthermore, the online community will certainly become a wealth of ideas and information, and it will remain private and online for your use anytime in the future.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about course content, scroll down to the Curriculum <em>About Creating ELT Materials 2020<\/em> or <a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/unit\/about-creating-elt-materials-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Scholarships<\/h3>\n<p>As always, iTDi believes that all teachers deserve the same opportunity to improve themselves. Therefore, a limited number of scholarships will be available for this course. Please apply through our scholarship application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/oL6aQHQW6uhi77t63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"btn btn-primary\" type=\"button\"><strong>APPLY<\/strong><\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About Katherine Bilsborough:<\/h3>\n<p>Katherine has worked in ELT for more than 30 years, first as a teacher, then as a teacher trainer, materials writer and author. She developed a passion for writing in the early years of her career when she would spend hours preparing supplementary materials for her own classes. Since then she has published course books and materials for most ages and levels. She writes regularly for National Geographic Learning, Oxford University Press, Macmillan, The British Council and BBC English. 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