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ohteacherdevelopment: FCE
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Tuesday, 23 March 2010. Top Tips for the FCE. Rosie Burke is a teacher/teacher trainer with International House – BCN. She is an experienced exam preparation teacher specialising in teaching YL and teenagers. The following is a summary of the workshop she gave at International House – BCN on Saturday, 6th February, 2010 from 4.45 – 5.45 pm as part of an ELT Conference. Through several fun and engaging teacher activities Rosie managed to get her message(s) across:. Some ideas for student activities:.
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ohteacherdevelopment: IATEFL April 2010 Harrogate
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Monday, 19 April 2010. IATEFL April 2010 Harrogate. Nicola and I attended the conference, you can see lots of the sessions and participate in discussions online. One I found particularly useful on teacher training. They talk about how they focus on key skills in the early stages of a CerTESOL course which they identify as listening to learners and correcting them and creating lsson content from "within" ythrough anecdotes for example DOGME style. Here is the link:. Adrian Underhill on Coaching. This sess...
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ohteacherdevelopment: Multiple Voices from the classroom: becoming a better Teacher
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Monday, 22 February 2010. Multiple Voices from the classroom: becoming a better Teacher. A summary of the Luke Prodromou presentation. What qualities did he/she possess? Subsequently the next step was to find out what exactly a good teacher does. Data showed that good teachers: explain things simply at a reasonable rate, going step by step, using examples, pausing to ask students if they have questions and allow students to contribute their personal knowledge. Good teachers don’t move on bu...Prodromou&#...
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ohteacherdevelopment: April 2010
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Monday, 19 April 2010. IATEFL April 2010 Harrogate. Nicola and I attended the conference, you can see lots of the sessions and participate in discussions online. One I found particularly useful on teacher training. They talk about how they focus on key skills in the early stages of a CerTESOL course which they identify as listening to learners and correcting them and creating lsson content from "within" ythrough anecdotes for example DOGME style. Here is the link:. Adrian Underhill on Coaching. This sess...
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ohteacherdevelopment: Pronunciation - 10 Rules I Want My Students To Know
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Thursday, 18 February 2010. Pronunciation - 10 Rules I Want My Students To Know. This workshop was presented by Brian Brennan, a senior teacher at International House, and attempted not only to demonstrate the importance of pronunciation in students’ language learning but also to provide teachers with some tools with which to help them. As is the fashion at the moment the workshop was based around a numerical theme, this time 10 rules. The following lists the 6 most practical points. Following on from th...
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ohteacherdevelopment: March 2009
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Wednesday, 4 March 2009. Preparing Students for Trinity Exams. Preparing Students for Trinity Oral Exams. As many of your of your students will be taking the Trinity exam this year, we are invited Lisa Inskipp-Hawkins, from Trinity College, to the school to give us a training session on exactly what the exam involves and how to prepare your students. Here is a summary of what we learned. Why should we recommend the Trinity exams to our students? How to choose a level for your student. Why a Trinity Exam?
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ohteacherdevelopment: February 2010
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Monday, 22 February 2010. Multiple Voices from the classroom: becoming a better Teacher. A summary of the Luke Prodromou presentation. What qualities did he/she possess? Subsequently the next step was to find out what exactly a good teacher does. Data showed that good teachers: explain things simply at a reasonable rate, going step by step, using examples, pausing to ask students if they have questions and allow students to contribute their personal knowledge. Good teachers don’t move on bu...Prodromou&#...
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ohteacherdevelopment: February 2009
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Sunday, 15 February 2009. Teaching spoken English means more grammar not less. Workshop. Teaching spoken English means more grammar – not less! The importance of boardwork). This session was presented by Hugh Dellar, who takes a very practical approach to teaching and who draws extensively on his personal teaching experience. His objective was to reinforce his views that all language used in the classroom must be authentic if students are to be given the chance of speaking English naturally. We should th...
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ohteacherdevelopment: MOTIVATING and CHALLENGING ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNERS
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Thursday, 18 February 2010. MOTIVATING and CHALLENGING ADVANCED BUSINESS ENGLISH LEARNERS. Although the title of this workshop seemed to indicate that the speaker would be addressing techniques to motivate advanced students, in reality she spoke to the audience about a series of activities which may be engaging for learners. Here are two of the most interesting that came up:. Eg If I wasn’t a teacher, [I’d be a. because.]. Not many people know that I’m particularly interested in. BAre hobbies only for pe...
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ohteacherdevelopment: Make pronunciation physical, visible, audible! A multi-experience approach
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Thursday, 18 February 2010. Make pronunciation physical, visible, audible! Adrian Underhill´s presentation had a wealth of information on how to make, as the title of the seminar suggested, pronunciation a multi-experience approach. To begin the seminar, he highlighted the following recent breakthroughs in pronunciation teaching:. 2 The sounds have been organized into a phonemic chart (based on symbols used by dictionaries) that includes a geographic design to show how to get the sound. C words together ...
