These are the presentation slides from Macmillan Education October Training.
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ATTENTION TEACHERS!!
Certrificates for Macmillan Summer Training and Conference are still available until December 2014.
To collect your certificate(s), please come to our main office at:
Tbilisi, Didi Digomi, 3 m/r, Nestan-Darejani Str.1
If you have questions, please contact:
Lali Jokhadze at 032.200.1242 ext.1006 or l.jokhadze@englishbook.ge
]]>One of the speakers, David Spencer, talked about “Motiv8: Eight Key Factors in Motivating Teenage Students ”.
During his talk, Spencer referred to the article below. We’d like to provide it for you today, so that you can review your notes and introduce these ideas to your classrom or school.
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MOTIV8: Eight Key Factors in Motivating Teenage Students
David Spencer
Tbilisi, Georgia
8th November 2014
1.) Personalisation
For students to communicate comfortably in another language, it’s important to create an atmosphere of personal trust in the classroom, where students feel at ease talking about their lives.
Activities:
- Talking T-shirts: Ask students to bring to class (or simply describe) one, two or three T-shirts that have some personal significance to them. They give a short presentation to the class explaining the significance. This allows the students to learn about each other in a relaxed, interesting away.
- Selfies: After the holidays or weekend, draw two or three simple rectangles on the board. Ask students to imagine that this is the screen of their mobile phone. They should draw ‘selfies’ or photos of their holiday/weekend. Then they show their ‘photos’ to a partner. Their partner asks them Yes/No questions to find out about what they did.
2.) Challenge
If you treat teenagers as if they know nothing, they’ll act as if know nothing. Try to challenge students in terms of grammar, vocabulary, texts, and interesting content. Think also about having open-ended activities for fast finishers to avoid bored, potentially disruptive students.
Activities for fast finishers:
- Rose-Rise-Rice…: Students continue the list by changing one letter (any letter) at a time. E.g. Rose-rise-rice-nice-nine-fine-…
- The Three Letter Game: Write three letters on the board. Students think of as many words as possible containing those three letters, in any order. Remind them that word formation can help them. Example answers for the letters RTN: train, north, natural, naturally, unnatural, presentation…
3.) ‘Do-ability’
Give teenage students structured activities that help to make difficult things easy, or do-able.
Activity:
- Madlib story:
Ask students to write down:
1. a country 2. a boy’s name – famous, fictional, unusual… 3. a girl’s name– famous, fictional, unusual… 4. a city 5. a verb in the past simple (+ object if necessary) 6. an animal 7. a superhero 8. a place 9. a type of food 10. a number
Then give them a skeleton text below to put their words into. Let them compare texts. Then analyse the linkers and use those linkers as a structure for the students’ own text.
[box type=”shadow” align=”aligncenter” ]This story took place in (1) _______. It all began when (2) _______ met (3) _______. They decided to go to (4) _______. Lots of things happened there. First they (5) _______. Then they saw a big (6) _______. The (6) _______ attacked them but just at that moment (7) _______ came and rescued them. (7) _______ took them to (8) _______ and they ate (9) _______. In the end, (2) _______ married (3) _______ and they had (10) _______ children.[/box]
4.) Engagement
The main thing we need in any class is that the students are engaged and active in our activities. Enjoyment is an important factor.
- Kim’s Game: Show the students 15 objects (on a tray/in a photo). Give students time to memorise the objects, then take them away. Students, in pairs, try to remember what they saw. Then show the same objects again, but having taken away three or four. Can they identify the missing objects?
5.) Progress / 6.) Success
Help students to see the progress they’re making. Do regular progress checks, guiding them to extra practice if they need it. Include cumulative practice and revision throughout the year.
Activity:
- Rewriting a low-level reader: Give B1+/ B2/B2+ students a simplified reader at A1/A1+/A2 level. Ask them to ‘improve’ short sentences by adding linkers, relative pronouns, and conjunctions.
7.) Variety
Make sure there is variety of skills and language work, interaction, task types, and media. Activities that are out of the ordinary will help to keep the students’ interest.
Activities:
- Mime the picture: Ask for a volunteer to come to the front of the class. Secretly show them a photo. The students should adopt the same position as the person in the photo. The rest of the class ask the student Yes/No questions to discover what exactly is in the photo.
- Alphabet Cards: Distribute the cards to the class.
(a) Spell words. Students who have a letter that appears in the word come to the front of the class and position themselves to spell the word correctly.
(b) Call out a category. Students have to think of a word beginning with their letter for the category. They hold up their card and say the word. If they can’t, they lose a point.
8.) Teacher Motivation
Activity:
- Visit https://www.facebook.com/macmillangateway for teacher tips, videos, etc.!
One of the speakers, Philip Kerr, will be talking about “Learning Vocabulary: It Takes Two to Tango”.
During his talk, Kerr will be referencing several websites. We’d like to provide those for you today, in preperation for his talk.
We look forward to seeing you there!!
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We are pleased to announce that on Saturday, the 8th of November 2014, The Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, will be holding a conference in collaboration with English Book in Georgia and Macmillan Education, entitled ‘English Language and Economic Development in the Globalized World’.
The aims of the conference are to explore English Language Teaching, its effects on the economic development of a given country and the best current modern practices for English Language Teachers. The event will also incorporate overviews of the current plans and innovations from The Ministry of Education and Science in Georgia.
This event is INVITATION ONLY.
We will have four speakers at this event:
David Graddol
He is Director of The English Company (UK) Ltd which provides consultancy and publishing services in applied linguistics, with a special focus on English language and education policy. David worked for many years in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the UK Open University and during 2010-2011 was Visiting Associate Professor at City University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in ELT projects in China, India and Latin America since the early 1990s. In The Future of English? (1997) David set out a new agenda for understanding the growing importance of English as an international language. English Next (2006) English Next India (2010), and English Next Brazil (2014), provide overviews of English in global education – all published by the British Council. Profiling English in China: The Pearl River Delta (2013), for Cambridge English Language Assessment, examines public discourses and language landscapes in south China. (All these titles can be freely downloaded from the internet).
Plenary: English and Economic Development
Carol Read
Carol Read has over 30 years’ experience in English language teaching as a teacher, teacher trainer, academic manager and materials writer. She has taught students of all ages and levels, from very young children to adults. Carol’s main specialisation is in primary language teaching and she has run numerous teacher education courses and worked as an educational consultant in many different countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Carol has published extensively in the field of teaching English to young learners, including course books, supplementary materials, online storytelling and CLIL projects, as well as many articles on primary ELT methodology. Her most recent publication, Footprints, is a fully-digital, primary coursebook series. Carol’s award-winning titles include 500 Activities for the Primary Classroom, which was Highly Commended in the ESU Duke of Edinburgh awards, and Bugs (with three co-authors), which won a British Council Innovation Award. Carol is currently President of IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).
Plenary: Seven Ways to Promote Creativity in the Classroom
David Spencer
Dave Spencer began writing ELT courses for Macmillan in 1994. His latest series is Gateway, a multi-level course designed to prepare teenage students for school-leaving/university entrance exams.
After studying languages at Oxford University, Dave trained to be a Secondary School teacher at the University of York. He then moved to Spain where he has been living and teaching ever since. He continues to teach Secondary students every day, currently working at Colegio Europeo Aristos in Getafe.
At various stages of his career, Dave has also worked as Director of Studies at International House Serrano, Madrid (now Hyland Language Centre) and as a teacher trainer for IH London and the British Council in Madrid.
Plenary: Motiv8: Eight Key Factors in Motivating Teenage Students
Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr is a lecturer, teacher trainer and materials writer with over 25 years’ experience of English language teaching in a number of European countries. He currently lives and works in Vienna. His publications include the coursebook series Straightforward and Inside Out (both published by Macmillan).
Plenary: Learning Vocabulary: It Takes Two to Tango
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25-28 June, Georgia
Last week, over 1000 Georgian English language teachers have gathered on a conference held in four cities (Batumi, Kutais, Telavi and Tbilisi) to discuss different topics and share English language teaching practices.
The conference was organized by The English Book in Georgia with the great support of Macmillan. We were honored to have Jim Scrivener (a freelance writer, consultant, teacher, trainer and conference speaker), Maura O’Brien (teacher trainer), Philip Kerr (lecturer, teacher trainer and materials writer), Teresa Doğuelli (teacher trainer) and Nick Goode (Regional Manager, Central Europe for Macmillan Education) as the guest-speakers of the conference.
“It is my honor to attend this conference. We learned about many new methods and activities, very helpful to reach our goals, the goals of National Curriculum. We will bring these methods to our students and will involve them in the activities. This all will help the students learn to speak English more freely”, says one of the participants Ms.MakaBerishvili, Rustavi PS N14.
English Book in Georgia is amazed by the motivation, interest, commitment and dedication the participants have showed during those four days. The representative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, Ms. Natia Jokhadze has also mentioned this during her speech, saying that the number of attendants in Tbilisi was significantly bigger than any other similar events organized before. She thanked the participants, in the name of Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, for their commitment and dedication.
The participants were engaged and actively involved in the discussions. As one of the teachers, Ms. Ana Panchulidze, IB Mtiebi, mentioned, “what we can learn from this conference, is the new approach to teaching processes and this is why, it is essential that this kind of events are organized often. On this conference we have the chance to meet world’s leading experts in the field”
The conference consisted of two parts – each speaker lead one plenary session and there were several workshops offered, running simultaneously in two sessions for smaller groups. This way each participant had a chance to attend two different workshops of their choice. The workshops covered different interesting topics, such as Classroom Management, Vocabulary Practices, Emotional Intelligence, Teamwork as well as Student Engagement.
“As a company, MacMillan Education what we try and do is to focus on the learners and focus on the teachers. And one way of increasing thelevel of English in any given situation, whether it is a particular classroom or if you think about a country like Georgia, isthat to educate the teachers as much as possible. Because by educating teachers it means that they can spread the techniques through to their students and therefore, students can have a better understanding of English and increase their level of English. And conferences like this are a great way to gather as many teachers together at one place as possible and that has many different benefits.”, says Nick Goode, Regional Manager (Central Europe for Macmillan Education).
This was one of the biggest English Language Teachers Conferences organized in Georgia having over 1, 000 participants, both public and partner private school teachers.
The conference in Tbilisi took place in the new office of English Book in Georgia. Right now, the room used for the conference is empty and ready for other interesting events. Our new office andour staff members are all set and ready for newchallenges, new events and new ways to stand by the teachers and overall, stand by the Education System in Georgia. We can only show our admiration to the teachers and again thank them for their interest, motivation and dedication and look forward to future opportunities of cooperation!
We are happy to inform you that the preparations for the conference are almost finalized!
Starting from tomorrow, the conference will gather hundreds of Georgian English language teachers in four different cities: Batumi (25 June), Kutaisi (26 June), Telavi (27 June) and Tbilisi (28 June).
The event is organized by English Book in Georgia with the great support of Macmillan and we are honored to have Jim Scivener (a freelance writer, consultant, teacher, trainer and conference speaker), Maura O’Brien (teacher trainer), Philip Kerr (lecturer, teacher trainer and materials writer), Teresa Doğuelli (teacher trainer) and Nick Goode(Regional Manager, Central Europe for Macmillan Education) as the guest-speakers of the conference.
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მოგესალმებით,
კონფერენციის მზადება თითქმის დასრულებულია! ხვალიდან საქართველოს ოთხ ქალაქში: ბათუმი(25 ივნისი), ქუთაისი(26 ივნისი), თელავი(27 ივნისი), თბილისი(28 ივნისი) ინგლისური ენის პედაგოგებისთვის ჩატარდება კონფერენცია, რომელიც გაიმართება „ინგლისური წიგნი საქართველოში“-ს ინიციატივითა და Macmillan-ის მხარდაჭერით.
კონფერენციის მომხსენებლები არიან Jim Scivener (a freelance writer, consultant, teacher, trainer and conference speaker), Maura O’Brien (teacher trainer), Philip Kerr (lecturer, teacher trainer and materials writer), Teresa Doğuelli (teacher trainer), Nick Goode(Regional Manager, Central Europe for Macmillan Education), რომლებიც Macmillan-ის და English Book in Georgia-ს მოწვევით ესტუმრებიან საქართველოს.
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