Сессия №4 Bringing the Course Book to Life

Программа семинара

“The 21^st century toolkit for today’s ELT classroom”

Апреля 2018 года (пятница) - Краснодар, ул. Калинина 13/1, корпус Зооинженерного факультета КубГАУ, аудитория №301.

Phil Warwick is a graduate of the Hastings College of Further Education, where he gained a B-TEC National Diploma in Business Studies. However he has spent most of his working life dealing with English. To teach it, he first gained his Trinity Cert. TESOL, and later also the prestigious Trinity Diploma TESOL. He is now a fully qualified English teacher trainer.

Phil has more than 20 years experience in English teaching acquired on three continents. On top of this, he can boast of extensive experience in school management, curriculum planning and methodology. Another large area of Phil’s skills lies in teacher training, which he has done in both the state and private sectors educating teachers from various environments of numerous countries. Phil has taught CELTA courses for teachers in the UK.

Phil is regularly invited as a speaker to Pearson conferences and educational programmes throughout Central Europe. He is co-author of several English teacher-training courses, which he helped to develop in the UK.

Сессия №1 Equipping Young Learners with 21^st century skills

There should be a lot more going on in an English class than just teaching language, we need our students to actively participate, perform and see a lesson as a learning adventure rather than a plate of cold lexis to be consumed and regurgitated under the harsh glare of the whiteboard.

We need to create an environment that encourages engagement and gets the imagination sparking and the communication bubbling, a world filled with superheroes and slick animation, creative contexts and activities that stimulate collaboration and open the door to new dimensions of learning – here at Pearson we look for that extra magical ingredient that can bring a course book to life and add a huge dose of fun and excitement to really animate the curriculum.

Сессия №2 Tackling testing and tracking progress

Although we are all aware that modern language testing is tied in to what a student can do in the target language and that just by improving their performance is preparation enough, both pupils and teachers like to have a firm grasp of what is expected. Also in this age of personal learning platforms and smart portfolios, there are ways that we can use technology to help track their students’ progress and show any areas that need improvement. This session will highlight some tools and strategies we can use to help students feel properly prepared, some techniques to help with areas they feel less confident about and some activities that will improve any weaknesses.

Сессия №4 Bringing the Course Book to Life

We all know that good teachers don’t teach the course book they teach the students using the course book - and there is a difference. Students bring in their own learner styles and motivation into the classroom and quite often there isn’t a smooth fit between what’s on page 24 and who’s in room 3. Also increasingly, as attention spans are getting lower learners need and expect something to engage them and this move towards ‘edutainment’ means that more emphasis needs to be placed on experiential learning (i.e. learning by doing) and making the whole classroom experience more memorable. Also, one of the main motivating factors for many school students is to pass an international examination. With these points in mind it is obvious that in order to get the best out of a course book we need to be selective and to be able to adapt and adjust the text to make it more relevant to our students’ needs. This session will look at some simple tasks and activities that will allow us to do exactly that.

Karina S. Petrosyan

Karina is a teacher trainer in the International Book Distribution, Methodology and Consultancy Centre PILOT ELT. Shehas more than 20 years’ experience in teaching General, Academic and Business English, and English for Specific Purposes in the Southern Federal University. Working at the Department for Sciences, SFedU, she took part in developing a number of EAP and ESP materials and coursebooks both in paper and electronic formats.

Karina has also experience of working as a Cambridge ESOL Speaking Examiner (KET, PET and FCE); and an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Teacher Trainer.

Karina’s professional interests include:

· ELT Methodology

· Materials development in EFL (for students in Sciences)

· Pragmatics; Phraseology;Teaching ELF (English as a Lingua Franca); Cross-cultural communication, etc.

She thinks that attending practical seminars for teachers is invaluablefor multiple reasons:

§ to gain hands-on experience that can be applied in teachers’ own classrooms throughactive engagement in seminar activities;

§ to develop relationships with colleagues, shareknowledge, ideas and experience with them;

§ to learn from each other in a friendly and supportive atmosphere;

§ to discuss the problems that teachersface in today’s classroom, such as mixed ability classes, learners with low or zero motivation, insufficient teaching time to make learners achieve a required level of proficiency in English, etc.

Karina believes that seminars and workshops offering practical and up-to-date input on a wide range of teaching skills and methodology are a good way to reflect on practice, to stimulate everyday teaching with new classroom ideas and, as a result,to make our teaching truly fulfilling and rewarding.