| CYCLE 1 - CHOOSE FROM: |
| Life-Affirming Leadership and Teaching – Adrian Underhill |
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This workshop will be conducted as a day-long living inquiry into the relationship between learning and leading, applying the term 'leader' to anyone who, like teachers, influences people and events. You will:
- explore our own individual leadership stories that we tell through our behaviours to those we work with and teach
- make use of the Leadership Development Framework (Bill Torbert) as a resource for developing insight into our own leadership styles
- develop a link between your personal deep values and the ways you choose to affect people in the workplace
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Adrian works with teachers and educators in areas of professional development. He specialises in helping schools to develop whole school, integrated professional learning programmes for their staff, and has been researching the use of storytelling as a tool for organisational change. He is a consultant and coach in leadership and professional development through action inquiry. |
| Psychology in EFL - Hanna Kryszewska |
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Different types of psychology affect our classroom practice. You will look at your understanding of the psychological background and how this affects your teaching style and methodology. This will include:
- Social Constructivism
- Behaviourism
- Humanism
- Cognitive Aspects of Learning
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| The Land of Smart; Learning Through Multiple Intelligences – Bonnie Tsai |
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This “hands-on” workshop goes beyond the theory of Multiple Intelligence to show how by using the intelligences as entry points, our students can be successful learners. In this way we give every student the chance to feel ‘smart'. You will get practical ideas on:
- Increasing student motivation and involvement
- Involving students in sharing and co-operation
- Building self esteem
- Developing reflective and thinking skills on a creative level
- Selection and supplementing course books
- Creating fair assessments
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Bonnie has been trained in such humanistic approaches as Suggestopdia, Psychodramaturgie Lingusitic and N.L.P. She had the pleasure of working on Multiple Intelligence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with Drs. Howard Gardiner and David Perkins. Bonnie works extensively with students of all ages who have learning difficulties arising from lack of motivation and low self-esteem. |
| Inspiration and Energy in Story Telling, Voice Work and Drama –Duncan Macintosh |
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"What I Speak Is Me, For That I Came": The Living Word
Using poetry and story we will work/play to bring the spoken English word alive, filled with gesture, colour, imagination, and life. We will explore sounds, breath, rhythm, image, deepening a living relationship to the marvellous powers and beauty in language and to our own creativity in speaking. Learn some of the basic elements of storytelling and poetry speaking. |
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Duncan is a speech artist, storyteller, actor, director, teacher and workshop leader. He co-founded and performed in the Shakespeare in the Rose Theatre Company for many years, has told stories, and performed poetry to thousands of adults and children in many countries. He also specialises in helping people make deeper contact with 'presence'. |
| CYCLE 2 - CHOOSE FROM: |
| Writing and Working with Words; What is a Good Activity? – Christine Frank |
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Three individual topics: working with words, writing in the classroom and what is a good activity?
- You will consider different learner types and how in the area of vocabulary we can encourage them to become more autonomous and participate in the decision-making which affects how and what they learn.
- For writing you concentrate on information, opinion and perception gap activities, integrating the four skills and learner-generated tasks.
- You will look at both teachers' and their participants' criteria of what makes a good activity. New and old techniques, particularly in the area of grammar.
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Christine has been a teacher and trainer for over 30 years and has run teacher training courses all over the world. Most recently she has worked as a trainer for primary teacher trainers in Germany and is employed by the publisher Klett to run in-service training courses. Christine has written many books including Challenge to Think, Grammar in Action and On Target. |
| Teacher as Facilitator – Richard Cooper |
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Everyday and all over the world, facilitators work in the corporate workplace running events for people who don't want to be responsible FOR an event, but to enjoy being entirely engaged IN the event. That's what facilitators do: they take charge of managing meeting so that those involved can devote their complete attention to its process and outcomes. Facilitation is like asking the cooks to come out of the kitchen in order to savour the tasting their own food (and talking about it) with their guests.
What ideas are there in facilitation that could be immediately of use to language teachers, teacher trainers and materials writers? That is what we will explore during the workshop, looking at facilitation and how it can impact more participatory language learning. |
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Rick is an international training consultant in presentation skills, interculture and facilitation and owes it all to 25 plus years in EFL as a teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer. |
| Challenge – How?, How Much? and Why? – Sheelagh Deller |
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In order for our students to accept challenge, they need to feel safe, and in order to challenge our students we need to challenge ourselves. This workshop will focus on how much challenge, how we can apply it to ourselves and how we can challenge our learners to make more decisions. |
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Sheelagh Deller has taught on many language courses, worked with teachers both in UK and overseas, trained teacher trainers, and written a number of books. Her latest book is Using the Mother Tongue, written with Mario Rinvolucri. |
| The Arts and ELT – David Cranmer |
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This series will help you and your learners to explore tasks through that will lead to a greater appreciation of art and enhanced language learning. It includes:
- Using music to teach language
- Using paintings to teach language
- Beethoven meets Constable: a language lesson
- What we do well and others can learn from
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David is an ELT teacher, teacher-trainer, writer, musician and musicologist. He currently teaches English Language and History of Music at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has been living and working for more than 20 years. |
| CYCLE 3 - CHOOSE FROM: |
| Teaching the ‘Unteachable' – Marie Delaney |
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How can schools and teachers include and teach those students whose behaviour is challenging and disruptive? These are the students we talk about in staffrooms because they make us feel incompetent and de-skilled.
In this series of workshops you will look at :
- Reasons why these students behave as they do; drawing on the research from educational therapy and psychology
- Practical strategies for managing them in the classroom; drawing on ideas from NLP and educational research
Whole-school initiatives which have been successful in the UK; looking at recent developments in nurture groups, Learning Support Units and Learning Mentors. |
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Marie Delaney is an Educational Advisor for the London Borough of Havering, working with Learning Mentors and Learning Support Unit Managers in primary and secondary mainstream schools. She has specialised in teaching children with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. She has worked in secondary schools and on the Dalston Education and Mentoring Youth Programme in East London, aimed at re-engaging disaffected teenagers into education. |
| Thinking Frames that Help you to Understand Yourself and Your Students Better – Mario Rinvolucri |
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This workshop will look at the following thinking tools:
- De la Garanderie's four Ways of Learning
- The Disney Creativity Strategy from NLP
- Virginia Satyr's five modes of Relating
- The Bateson Logical Levels
- The " Drivers" from TA.
You will explore these conceptual frames which have immediate practical applications in both your personal life and your teaching work. |
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Mario Rinvolucri has worked for Pilgrims for 30 years and edits Humanising Language Teaching. He regularly contributes to The Teacher Trainer Mario's first CD-ROM for students, Mindgame, was published by Clarity. Mario's most recent books include: a new edition of Vocabulary, with Morgan, Humanising your Coursebook, and Using the Mother Tongue, with Deller, |
| How to be an Amazing Teacher – Jim Wingate |
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Jim will run 4 separate workshops that cover:
- How to be an Amazing teacher – any age, level or subject
- Teaching to their Best Strengths - Teaching adults
- Working with the Energies of Young Learners - 3-11 year-olds
- Practical Solutions for ‘Difficult' Learners and ‘Difficult' Classes - any age, level, or subject
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Jim Wingate has been plenary speaker at 41 international conferences in 19 countries, has written
40 books for teachers, and has co-written 4 sets of coursebooks used in 10 countries. |
| Lessons from Corpus Linguistics: Spoken Grammar and Lexical Chunking – Paul Davis |
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Corpus Linguistics has become a “buzz word” (or rather chunk) in our industry. You will look at:
- Implementing the findings of the research in this area
- Practical classroom applications of corpus linguistics
- Data and how our students themselves can do small scale research
- Features of Spoken Grammar (as distinct from written)
- How to get our students speaking (and listening) more effectively
- Cultural features of spoken English
- How to effectively teach lexis through "chunking"
- How to combine lexis and grammar
There will be exercises suitable for all levels from beginners to advanced |
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Paul is a freelance teacher, trainer and writer based in Cambridge and Sopot (Poland). He is the co-author of Dictation (CUP), More Grammar Games (CUP), The Confidence Book (Pilgrims-Longman) and Ways of Doing (CUP). His interests: include cooking, cycling, cinema and beer. |
