Macmillan Education Training
English Book in Georgia in partnership with Macmillan Education organised training for English language teachers on the 25th-26th of February.
The training included the following topics:
• Reading as a life skill
• Mistake Management with Primary Learners: The Ifs, Whys and Ways.
Training was delivered by Teresa Doguelli, one of the most popular trainers in Georgia.
Teresa has been a teacher and trainer since 1976, teaching adults, teenagers and children; teachers, teacher trainers, ELT inspectors and parents. She has been a full-time teacher trainer with Macmillan, Southern Europe, since 2012. Teresa was National Teacher Training Project Leader in Georgia and delivered plenty of training sessions organised by English book in Georgia and the Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia.
For downloading the presentation follow the link below:
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Our Kutaisi Schedule (25 June 2015):
Our Tbilisi Schedule (26 June 2015):
Our Tbilisi Schedule (27 June 2015):
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If you have questions, please contact:
Lali Jokhadze at 032.200.1242 ext.1006 or l.jokhadze@englishbook.ge
ATTENTION TEACHERS!!
Certrificates for Macmillan Open Mind Training with Steve Taylore-Knowles are now available.
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
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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
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English Book in Georgia (EBG) has a variety of resources to suit your needs.
The aim of EBG is to facilitate the improvement of the English language in Georgia by ensuring that teachers of English have access to a range of current, internationally accepted learning resources.
With that in mind, we’d like to introduce you to the latest in the next generation of technology! It’s called eBeam.
Plug and Play Interactivity that adapts to you.
eBeam Edge Wireless transforms any flat surface into a plug-n-play, interactive teaching experience. And, it connects wirelessly to your computer, making room setup flexible and easy. eBeam Edge Wireless allows you to place your computer up to 50 meters from your interactive space. Connect the Wireless Adapter to an available USB port on your computer and, done! You now have instant access to a fully interactive environment.
Interactive shouldn’t be expensive
No need for costly electronic whiteboards or new projectors. eBeam Edge makes your classroom interactive with your existing whiteboard, projector, and Mac or PC computer.
Interactivity to go
As small as a TV remote control, eBeam Edge moves with you from classroom to classroom. The system combines an interactive stylus with a small receiver that magnetically attaches to any whiteboard in seconds.
A stylus mightier than a sword
Write and draw with it, use it as a mouse. Our two-button stylus makes it effortless to interact with anything on the whiteboard.
The Benefits:
- Intuitive tool palette gives immediate access to the tool you need wherever you’re working on the board
- Bring in word documents, take screenshots of the web, annotate on top of everything in Scrapbook
- With PowerPoint integration, annotate on a presentation and save all strokes as PowerPoint objects
- Media rich Gallery provides category specific images and dynamic content built into Scrapbook
- eBeam Home is a quick dashboard to place commonly used apps and programs to help you personalize your eBeam home experience
Our staff, at EBG, can answer any questions you might have about eBeam. To order or to get more information, contact: englishbookteam@englishbook.ge
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Macmillan Practice Online
When you use Macmillan Practice Online to manage your students and classes you’ll wonder how you ever coped before. Want an instant overview of who’s done this weeks’ homework – easy. Or maybe it’s time to keep an eye on that student you noticed having difficulty in the last lesson, just to make sure they’re progressing okay – not a problem. And when you need a record, just print off the beautifully designed reports – that’s one less job to do before you head off for the evening.
We want to provide the tools to allow teachers to teach on their terms, when and where they want. That’s why we’ve designed Macmillan Practice Online from the ground up to be 100% web-based, allowing teachers the freedom to access the tools and language materials wherever they are.
Pearson’s MyEnglishLab
When your students are using Pearson’s MyEnglishLab, you instantly have access to a wide range of useful diagnostic tools. The information that these tools provide ensures that valuable classroom time is spent on activities that meet the real needs of your students. Whether you need to extend the contact hours you have with your students, make homework a more meaningful exercise, or want deeper insight into the areas in which your students need more practice, MyEnglishLab is a great solution.
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onestopenglish
Onestopenglish is a teacher resource site, part of Macmillan Education, one of the world’s leading publishers of English language teaching materials.
Onestopenglish is packed with resources for English teachers. All materials are written and edited by our expert team of teachers and authors and are organized into core subject areas such as Skills, Grammar and Vocabulary, Business and ESP, Exams and Young Learners, so you’ll always find what you’re looking for.
- Access our entire database of over 9,000 high-quality resources.
- Find new materials added every week.
- Benefit from a wide range of resources, whether you teach Business English, Young Learners, Exams or CLIL.
- Save time: organize resources and plan your lessons with our exclusive Learning Calendar.
- Don’t stress: let our articles and tips solve all your teaching dilemmas.
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]]>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.!
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!
