We're inviting you to join our Pre-CELTA training day jointly organized by Interlingua (Odesa), Grade Education Centre (Kyiv) and Cambridge Club (Kyiv). This is the first event in a series of 3 seminars which are designed to equip you with some techniques used in communicative methodology, and also to prepare you for the CELTA.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Kateryna Protsenko
Kateryna Protsenko recently joined Grade Education Centre as director of Teacher Training. She has a lot of experience in teaching English to students of all levels and age groups, as well as experience of running the Academic Department, Teacher Training Department and working on pre-service and in-service training courses at schools and private language schools. In the recent years Kateryna has been doing a lot of teacher training and teacher trainer training in a number of countries, including Ukraine, Turkey, Lebanon, Thailand, the UK and Greece as a trainer on Cambridge CELT-P, CELT-S, CELTA and Delta courses, and as a Cambridge examiner for all exams. Kateryna has also attended and presented at major conferences in Ukraine, the UK, Spain and Poland in the past 3 years. Her main interests include psychology of learning, mentoring, coaching, and other aspects involved in making learning effective.
Olha Lysenko
Olha Lysenko is an ESP and EAP teacher, teacher trainer and international oral examiner. Before joining Cambridge Club Language Centre (Kyiv), Olha spent 10 years at her alma-mater, the National University of Ostroh Academy, teaching Legal English, supervising the laboratory of LE teaching approaches. She has managed to gain the experience of working abroad as Canada World Youth supervisor (Prince Rupert, BC) and participated in Erasmus Mundus programme for PhD students (The Bologna University, Italy). Among the qualifications she has, there are master degree in English language and literature, TKT (Modules 1-3), CELTA, English for Specific Purposes (The University of Oregon, the USA). Olha enjoys reading psychology books and drawing.
Tatyana Iushchuk
Graduated from Odessa Pedagogical University in 1995. Tatyana has been teaching General and Business English to adults and teenagers of all levels for more than 25 years. The era of Communicative Approach started in Odessa in early 90s, and Tatyana was lucky enough to use the newest course books of that time, to attend the seminars of gurus of Modern Techniques and to test a lot of new programmes herself. Being a teacher, a psychologist and a teacher trainer, having significant experience, Tatyana founded a language school “Interlingua” in 2006. In her school, which is a Cambridge Exam Preparation Centre, Tatyana is the Head of the Teacher Training department. Tatyana is a speaker at numerous Conferences and Trainings both in ELT and Psychology areas. Her main interests are psychology, coaching, travelling, design, reading and charity.
PLAN FOR THE DAY
10:00 - 11:30 Teaching Grammar Through Guided Discovery, by Olha Lysenko
11:45 - 13:15 Test-teach-test framework for teaching vocabulary, by Kateryna Protsenko
13-15 - 14-15 Lunch break
14:15 - 15:45 Effective Presentation Insights, by Tatyana Iushchuk
16:00 - 17:30 Practising New Language, by Kateryna Protsenko
Seminar 1
Teaching Grammar Through Guided Discovery
Presenter: Olha Lysenko
How to encourage students' independence? How to make learning more memorable? How to turn teacher-centred grammar explanation into a meaningful communicative task? How to overcome students' resistance to the approach? Come to our seminar to discover the secret strategies.
Seminar 2:
Test-teach-test framework for teaching vocabulary
Presenter: Kateryna Protsenko
Test-teach-test is a framework in which students first complete a task with no support, and while the students are doing this, the teacher is monitoring to see what areas are particularly difficult and need to be clarified, which the teacher does after the students complete their work. This is later followed up with more practice which should help the students consolidate what they have learnt. While this approach sounds simple to use, there are a lot of things which need careful planning and attention, such as the type of activities we set up, how to monitor, what to focus on etc. This is what we will be focusing on in this workshop.
Seminar 3
Effective Presentation Insights
Presenter: Tatyana Iushchuk
Being a great and dynamic presenter is a much-needed skill in teaching process. The way you attract attention, get your point across, interact with your audience, receive the feedback makes your impact.
The real pro plans thoroughly and designs creatively, builds clear and effective structure, delivers with enthusiasm and never leaves unanswered questions behind. The real pro takes the class on a journey and has a clear itinerary, enough supplies and understanding. What type of presenter you are and the ways to improve the skill we will be discussing at my interactive workshop.
Seminar 4
Practising New Language.
Presenter: Kateryna Protsenko
After the workshops focusing on the ways of presenting new language, we're going to have a workshop dedicated to the types of practice activities we can use to make sure students retain what we're teaching. We will discover the difference between controlled and less controlled practice activities, the focus of practice activities (e.g. manipulating the form, working with meaning etc.), and will practice planning and setting up those activities
Fee: 800 UAH
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZpzFAKZFQFm19LbSNe-Df8_5MRi4GUbB7p_8aCl2ufM/edit
Limited number of participants.
