Young Learner Conference for Ukraine

Дата: 22 лютого 2022 року
Час: 16.00 – 18.15
Місце проведення: онлайн

Зареєстровані учасники отримають сертифікати з вказанням кількості годин та візьмуть участь в розіграші підручників!

Програма онлайн конференції

16:00 – 17:00

21st Century Skills for Young Learners

As teachers and educators, we want to prepare our students for the 21st Century world. We want to engage them, encourage their independence, nurture their curiosity and motivate them to find out more. But at the same time, we also have to cover a syllabus and ensure that students are learning English in a guided and structured environment. How can we transform our classroom into a place where students not only learn the grammar, functions and vocabulary of the English language, but also develop the skills needed to explore this ever-changing world? In this workshop/talk we will consider why 21st Century skills are important and how we can develop and encourage them in our students. I will examine some of the ways we can integrate the core skills of critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration into our language lessons and, using examples from National Geographic Learning’s Look series, I will show how these skills can naturally evolve from language learning tasks.

Спікер: Kath Stannett, авторка курсу Look

Перерва, National Geographic Learning in Ukraine

17:00 – 18:15

Harnessing Curiosity in the YL Classroom

To be successful teachers we need to be able engage our young learners by developing activities that appeal to their basic psychological and intellectual needs – and at the heart of that is curiosity. In this interactive session we’ll explore the importance of appealing to our learners’ natural curiosity and how exactly being curious helps learning. Referencing National Geographic Learning’s Our World series, we’ll then look at a number of different ways in which we can harness our learners’ curiosity in the English language classroom to spark a love of learning English.

Спікер: Alex Warren, старший тренер в National Geographic Learning

Інформація про спікерів:

Katherine Stannett is an author with over twenty years of experience. She spent two years in Japan in the 1990s, teaching English to a wide variety of students in many different settings. She is the co-author of the several successful secondary series and has also written articles, songs and raps for many popular EFL magazines. Most recently, she has written two levels of the new National Geographic Middle School series, ‘Impact’ and one level of the new National Geographic Primary series, ‘Look’. She has given presentations and run workshops in many countries around the world, including Poland, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Honduras, Brazil, Spain and Slovenia and also conducts webinars from her home office in the UK.

Alex Warren is a DELTA trained teacher trainer with over 17 years’ experience of working in ELT as a teacher, teacher trainer and academic director. He has presented and run workshops and webinars on a wide range of topics in over 30 countries throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Alex is currently the Senior ELT Academic Consultant for National Geographic Learning.