WORKSHOPS LIST
Breda Banovšek, Spice up your lessons! Young learners (6 to 10 years), Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Workshop, 45 minutes The main theme of my workshop is how to make lessons fun and relevant to younger generations. I will present some ideas including teaching with memes, vines, incorporating physical exercise in a lesson etc.
Alenka Battelino, Formative assessment in high schools - a myth or a reality Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Talk, 30 minutes The idea of formative assessment or Assessment for learning is attractive but extremely challenging. And it seems a mission impossible in the Slovenian school system. I am going to talk about the basic principles of FA and discuss the possible advantages and drawbacks of it if being introduced in a Slovenian high school class.
Mojca Belak, At ease with trees Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Workshop, 45 minutes The main topic of this workshop is trees, so activities suiting visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learners will all be about trees, nature and that grey area beyond language where words fail to convey simple kinaesthetic messages. Come and join me in Eternal tree mingle, Forest art project, a jazz chant, Tree spotting, and much more.
Angelos Bollas, Tweeting Through the Intermediate Plateau Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Talk, 30 minutes This presentation focuses on learners of intermediate level and more specifically on those who do not show progress – the ones that have plateaued. It explores different tasks/activities on Twitter that help learners reach more advanced levels of proficiency. Teachers with little or no experience with using twitter in class are welcome to attend.
Bojana Borković, Vesna Bulatović Using Literature in ELT Classroom Adults, Talk, 20 minutes The use of literature in the ELT classroom is enjoying a revival due to its many advantages. They provide rich linguistic input, develop cultural awareness and serve as a potential source of learner motivation. The presentation will investigate the most appropriate methods of incorporating literature in a normal ELT classroom while indicating to some practical tools in exploiting different texts.
Barbi Bujtas, Confessions of a teacher (42) exhibiting severe generation Z symptoms Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Workshop, 45 minutes Generation Z learners are quick, bored and distracted easily, opinionated, leave things to the last minute, prefer video to written text, prefer bite-size things, love games, prefer practice to theory, demand relevant tasks. Just like me. Coursebooks and traditional approaches won’t do, trust me. I’ll share how I exploit their greatness and what I do to get them to learn.
Large classes are usually seen as a major obstacle to successful language teaching and they represent the real challenge to all language teachers, for every teaching method is less effective in large classes. Likewise, assessment methods are also circumscribed by class size and by the additional limitation of resources. Hence, finding the right tools for addressing these issues is crucial.
Peter Cigrovski, Tanja Fajmut Spice up your lessons with films Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Talk, 45 minutes If a picture says a thousand words, how many does a film, then? In this practical and hands-on talk, the speakers are going to introduce a number of hassle-free approaches teachers can take when using films in the EFL classroom. Focusing on easy-to find and even easier-to-use short films and commercials, we'll introduce you to film-related communicative activities. Oh, and let’s not forget about making our own films!
Branka Dečković, Authentic assessment Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Workshop, 45 minutes
Authentic assessment aims at evaluating students’ performance in real-world contexts. Students are involved in evaluation process, they become active learners. They are also given opportunities to demonstrate their understanding in more than one way. Along with some theoretical background, some practical examples of AA will be given as well.
Irena Dirjec, English for students with mild intellectual disabilities Young learners (6 to 10 years), Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), students with special needs, Talk, 30 minutes Many students with mild intellectual disabilities in special schools often come in touch with English language only in 7th grade. Therefore I’ve adapted several classical board games to be used during English lessons. Besides I am exploiting students’ interest in the ICT in various ways; and much more.
Laura Edwards, Getting emotional with CEFR-inspired communication tasks. Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Workshop, 45 minutes, 60 minutes would be ideal Exchanging personal experiences plays a central role for language learners, particularly at levels B1 and B2. Our experiences are linked to emotional responses; we regret past mistakes, or feel disappointed when things don't meet expectations. Expressing emotions in an appropriate manner can be challenging. In this workshop you’ll use the CEFR to develop communicative tasks focusing on emotions and experiences.
Marija Frangež, OSCAR WILDE, IDEALS AND REALITY DURING THE COURSE OF LIFE Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Talk, 20 minutes A short presentation of school lessons dealing with the literary play, reasons for setting up a discussion about the play with eminent Slovenian anthropologist and playwright, event organisation, new insights and findings, presentation of supplementary material.
Mike Harrison, Drawing inspiration from sound and image All audiences, Workshop, Powerpoint free workshop, 45 minutes As an English language teacher, I've often found myself using resources promising creative, imaginative, and interesting lessons. But often it is too much. In this workshop I aim to share some instances where I’ve found inspiration using minimal resources like drawing and sounds. Participants will have the chance to experience some practical classroom activities – be ready to imagine and draw!
Elvira Hodzic, Ramajana Zahirovic Communicating with Digital Natives All audiences, Workshop, 45 minutes Possibilities and benefits of using technology in EFL classroom should not be ignored. This session provides ideas to help teachers leverage technologies for the best language learning outcomes. Whether you wish to use students’ own mobile devices, or simply expand your list of language learning websites, this workshop has a wide selection of ideas for you.
Aida Ibricevic, Clouds, Storm and Rain: A ‘Production of Ideas’ Workshop Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, ESP, Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Workshop, 45 minutes The aim of this workshop is to introduce innovative brainstorming and creative thinking techniques, used in the arts, sciences and entrepreneurship, with the purpose of stimulating student creativity in an academic writing course. The workshop will actively engage participants in three stages of production: understanding and choosing the essay prompt, group brainstorming and generating keywords for catalog searches.
Marša Jović, Teaching in a Montessori School Young learners (6 to 10 years), Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Talk, Workshop, 30 minutes There are two Montessori schools in Slovenia at the moment. We are expecting more to open in the near future... Montessori teachers of English will be sought for. What does it mean to be a Montessori teacher? What kind of training is required? What is expected of a Montessori teacher? What does a day in a Montessori school look like? How does teaching English feel like? How do children learn a foreign language in a Montessori environment?
Laszlo Katona, Natural sciences in the English classroom Young learners (6 to 10 years), Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), ESP, Workshop, 45 minutes The session is designed to introduce funny experiments that EFL teachers can use during the English classroom to communicate content, to raise interest and to increase motivation. This workshop is not only for science or CLIL teachers, and it will address topics such as global issues, environmental issues and green technology through experiments and drama activities.
Dr Apolonija Klančar, Attention Problems: Causes, Symptoms, Therapy and Classroom Guidelines All audiences, ESP, Workshop, 60-90 minutes Children with attention problems have poorly developed automatisms of perception. Inability to flawlessly process sensory information (e.g. auditory, visual, tactile) hampers learning, leading to attention and memory problems, which
significantly affect reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. Experience inefficient sensory automatisms and therapeutic protocols first hand. Practical guidelines of what (not) to do in an English classroom provided. (Please, wear comfortable clothing for exercises!)
Berta Kogoj, Any building needs foundations, and so does literacy in English Young learners (6 to 10 years), Talk, 45 minutes In this talk we shall present efforts and practical experience of some teams implementing EFL in 1st cycle of elementary schools in the development of early literacy in English. Together with the acquisition of some basic language, phonological and phonemic awareness are developed, which then lead into a number of reading, pre-writing and writing activities for young learners. Materials will be shared.
Mirta Kos Kolobarić, Animated films in ELT Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Workshop, 45 minutes The workshop presents several practical and ready-made ideas on how modern animated films can be used in teaching English in order to spark our students' interest and increase their motivation for learning. After watching the official trailers for the selected animated films students are willing to discuss characters and their relationships, as well as use various lexical and grammatical structures.
Tanja Kovačič, How to deal with mobile phone addiction among teen students? Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Talk, 20 minutes, 30 minutes Modern times – modern technology - modern challenges. This practically oriented talk will highlight how mobile phone addiction besides being a disturbance for teachers and students influences student grades, attention and disruptive behaviour . The focus will be on different practical tips and communication techniques for limiting in-class use and negative effects on learning.
Barbara Kragelj Jerič, Sitting is not the best body pose for learning All audiences, Workshop, 30 minutes Once students enter a classroom, teachers typically require them to conform to the same activities despite their differences: sit down, get ready and sit still. The traditional school system forces students first to sit still in the least suitable position for active learning and then requires them to be highly active. There is a better way.
Margarita Kosior, Re-negotiating the Basics: Learner Autonomy Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Talk, 45 minutes In the past decades, there has been a radical shift from traditional teacher-centered perceptions of foreign language teaching to more innovative approaches in learning and teaching. Focusing on the needs and demands of the student has resulted in teaching and learning environments characterized by ever-growing learner autonomy and student-centered tasks. How is this learner autonomy accomplished, and to what end? Chloe Lambert
English in Action practical workshop All, workshop, 45 minutes A practical workshop from English in Action. By using the communicative method of teaching the we will explore different activities to really motivate, inspire and encourage your students to speak English in the classroom.
Katja Leban, "Phonics" and phonographic method in the classroom Young learners (6 to 10 years), Workshop, 30 minutes This workshop is about sounding out words in English and its effect on Slovene children's literacy skills in English language in the first 3 years of Slovene primary school. By using the phonic and phonographic method along with the sight method the children will be able to recognize sounds in words better.
Tjaša Lemut Novak, LET’S DO DRAMA – using drama to teach English language All audiences, Workshop, 45 minutes Teaching English a bit differently. For those that are into it and those that are not. There are 111 activities to choose from – today we are going to do ACTIVITY No. 1: The Blue Crayon together. Come and join the fun! – a story, activities … drama.
Steve Lever Creative and Effective Language Learning All, talk, 45 min In this session we will demonstrate that creativity and language learning go hand in hand. Far from being elusive and abstract, creativity actually demonstrates sound knowledge of the subject and is the result of firm foundations. It is a valid educational goal, providing opportunities to draw on all aspects of learning and synthesise them into a memorable, active experience.
Steve Lever Pathways to Literature Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, 45 minutes In literature, we are not only asked to observe the lives, worlds and values of others, but to reflect on our own. Therefore, the study of literature is arguably also the study of ourselves and the world we inhabit. We will look at how an organised approach to literature can teach students new skills in both language and thought.
Marija LukaÄ?, Books make you taller Young learners (6 to 10 years), Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Commercial presentation, 45 minutes This workshop is about instilling the love for reading into young learners and tweenagers. The participants will explore how reading changes us for the better, and what activities we could do with our students. You can bring your own books, or I can borrow you mine for creating an activity you know your students will enjoy.
Katja Marenk,
What’s all the drama about?! Young learners (6 to 10 years), Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Workshop, 45 minutes We are constantly trying to find new ways of motivating our students and making our lessons more creative. One good provider of both is drama and it should be incorporated in as many lessons as possible. Join my stage and you'll get to try out different drama techniques that I mostly practise with my drama club students but they come in handy during lessons as well in the form of icebreakers, transitions, introductions, welcomed interruptions, role play… you name it.
Jean McCollister, Minds in Motion Young learners (6 to 10 years), Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Workshop, 45 minutes Having to sit still while learning is unnatural and demotivating for many children. This workshop presents EFL activities designed to overcome this problem and enhance learning by combining mental with physical tasks. They include a rhythmic clapping game for practicing vocabulary, (inter)active storytelling, songs with motions, describing/identifying objects by feel, and guided interaction with a therapy dog, among others.
Helena Miklavčič, Sparkling inspiration in the classroom Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Talk, Workshop, 45 minutes To start with, a short talk to establish the importance of having an inspiration in life will be given. Some lesson plans and ideas on how to teach inspiration by using quotes, poems, songs and movies will be presented and parts of the activities presented will be done by the participants. The presented materials will be shared with the participants.
Benjamin Mitrofan-Norris, The Freudian English Class Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Workshop, 45 minutes Psychology and ELT have long overlapped, and we've all used several 'poppsychology' approaches to lessons. In this workshop, we'll explore how many of the real psychoanalytical techniques pioneered by Freud can not only be utilised in ESL classrooms to encourage fluency, but can also add fascinating components to any lesson.
Alan Paradi탑, We're going on a WebQuest! Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Talk, 30 minutes A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which the information that learners work with comes from the web. A WebQuest is classroom-based, it focuses on higher-order thinking and, thirdly, the teacher preselects the sources, highlighting information use. A WebQuest is a group work acitivity with the tasks split into roles, fostering team effort. Using WebQuests supports critical thinking and problem solving through cooperation and technology integration. WebQuests provide a situation in which students acquire information, debate issues, participate in meaningful discussions, engage in roleplay simulations and solve problems, which altogether contributes to language acquisition via being immersed in a language bath.
Anže Perne, All about TED(x) Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, Talk, 30 minutes The talk focuses on TED and TEDx – events where inspiration is born. After an introduction to TED, examples of short TED(x) talks will be provided, including their classroom use. Information on organising your own TEDx event will be provided as well.
Kendra Peterson, Jane Kilner Silent Skills Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, ESP, All audiences, Workshop, 45 minutes How can silent movies be useful in ELT? Don’t we need words in order to learn a language? This workshop will illustrate how silent movies can be used effectively for a variety of objectives. Its main precept is to exemplify how we can increase students’ ability to produce their own language without an explicit model and have fun doing it.
Marjetka Pfajfar, ESL Lessons Supporting Primary School Curriculum and Students' Personal Development Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Workshop, 45 minutes Teaching ESL without a textbook is a very challenging task. Equally, it offers great opportunities. The presentation focuses on showing numerous ways of supporting personal development of individual students. During the workshop, the teachers will be able to reformulate their yearly, monthly, weekly, daily lesson plans to better suit the individual needs of the students and to support other subjects.
Gregor Pirš, God damn it I am afraid. All audiences, Talk, Workshop, 45 minutes In this talkshop we will discuss the stress that students experience during learning/actively participating in the classroom. First we will explore how we the teachers, see stress when dealing with our students. We will discuss different factors of stress (e.g. learning styles, objectives and aims and similar) and how can teachers influence them to prevent the stress to influence the students' success.
Dr Biljana Radić-Bojanić, Fly me to the Moon: Raising awareness of Learning Styles All audiences, Workshop, 45 minutes This workshop will focus on various ways of raising awareness concerning differences in students' learning styles. On the one hand, it will be beneficial for teacher trainers as it will show various methods and procedures for educating teachers using experiential learning. On the other hand, it will help in-service teachers to get new ideas and implement them in their classroom.
Margit Szestay, Uwe Pohl, Anna Csiky Teaching English with the three Cs Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, 45 minutes In this workshop we will explore how teachers can bring creative, critical and compassionate thinking into their language classrooms. We will share why the three Cs have become a regular feature of the work we do as teachers and trainers. There will also be a chance for you to get a taste of ‘three-C’ classroom activities.
Mojca Saje Kušar,
Feeling artistic? Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Workshop, 30 minutes This is an example of how to include students who are more artistic to do some research on certain topics we deal with in our English lessons. Not everybody in happy in English classes, but if you have at least a little bit of artistic talent you might join your work of art with upgrading your English.
Kubra Saygili, Esra Saygili Teacher is one of us Young learners (6 to 10 years), Adults, Workshop, Powerpoint free workshop, 20 minutes Does Group Work help my students communicate more in English with their classmates? It is essential and advantageous to involve students in a social and communicative context instead of following the same course and workbook everyday. With the help of such interactive activities, students are capable of participating and taking part more in the class since the topics are interesting and they are more enthusiastic over taking part in this productive process as it contributes to physical activities, creativity, imagination and emotional aspects.
Mija SeliÄ?, Picture Dictionary – take the words out and play with them Young learners (6 to 10 years), Workshop, 60 minutes Imagine a group of children. They are 9 and 10. They play with words and switch them in different combinations to create sentences. They enjoy the funny ones the most. And guess what - they use different tenses! They simply love it. You want to see how it works?
Danny Singh,
Mother Europe All audiences, Workshop, 45 minutes This presentation is linked to an article published in the summer 2014 issue of IN magazine, based on a highly educational Slovenian film of the same title. It looks at the problem of borders created by governments and the effect on citizens. It's done through the eyes of a 5 year old girl, which makes it much lighter for the audience.
Petek Şirin, Swimming against the tide: Reaching anxious learners through audio feedback Adults, ESP, All audiences, Talk, 30 minutes The implications of anxiety are evident in foreign language classroom. Is it possible to decrease learner anxiety and enhance students’ confidence, self-esteem and level of participation? This talk, which is based on an action research conducted in an ESP classroom, examines the benefits of using audio feedback in an attempt to address these issues.
Irena Škulj, Helena Osterman ICT inspires to design student-centered activities Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Talk, 30 minutes We would like to inspire teachers to reflect on their use of ICT, project-based methods and collaboration in their practice as well as help them realise the potential of innovative technologies in everyday classroom practice. We will present some free easy-to-use software programmes which will help them to exploit ICT tools in both a teacher-centred class and in learner-centred activities.
Marcin Stanowski, Let your fire burn! Dealing with teacher's burnout All audiences, Talk, Workshop, 45 minutes A light-hearted talk on a serious issue. How to cope with teacher's burnout? How to have the best teaching experience, avoid burnout and teach engaging lessons to students? Further insight into burnout causes and prevention. Teachers will be provided with couple of tasks including drama, dance and yoga which may cater for lowering the stress levels of students and teachers.
Anja Ĺ travs, Strictly Come Dancing! All audiences, Talk, 20 minutes What have Blackpool or Olympic athletes got to do with dancing? Can anyone become a good dancer? Join a lively talk about the dancing bit of British culture, test your dancing knowledge by participating in a fun quiz, and learn all about Strictly Come Dancing, an extremely popular British television show, which brings professional dancing closer to general public.
Nora Tartsay Designing mobile apps for language learning Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, ESP, 45 minutes This workshop aims at showing the process of designing a mobile language learning app by teachers focusing on environmental issues. IATEFL-Hungary, in cooperation with the Regional English Language Office (RELO), organized a Learnathon event in Budapest in May 2015, and the result of the project is a number of great ideas, with one actually produced and introduced in the workshop.
Aleksandar Tonić, ELT&ICT: Nearpod - create, engage, assess All audiences, Workshop, 30 minutes The focus of the workshop is ICT in the classroom. Workshop attendees will learn about and try out Nearpod, an online application that teachers can use to prepare materials and share them in the classroom in forms of online lessons with diverse types of content and interactive activities. Moreover, Nearpod allows real-time feedback and instant assessment of the students’ progress.
Irena Varga Dervarič, Reading is fun Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Talk, 20 minutes In my PP presentation/ talk I would like to show some simple activities. They are mostly used to motivate our pupils to read. These activities are suitable for beginners ( 4 th grade pupils) as well for pupils in the higher classes.
Chris Walklett, Creative uses for songs & song lyrics in the EFL classroom Primary school ( 11 to 14 years), Secondary school (15 to 19 years), Adults, All audiences, Workshop, 45 minutes This workshop session aims to uncover creative uses for songs and song lyrics utilizing the participants as well as the presenter for inspiration. After some input, a selection of songs will be supplied and participants will be given the opportunity to work in groups to suggest the ways in which these songs could be employed in interesting and creative ways.
Karen White,
One piece of paper All audiences, Workshop, 45 minutes In this workshop we will try out several ideas that you can use with all levels of English and all ages. All you need is just one piece of paper for each student and no other preparation. The activities include revising vocabulary, creating stories and dialogues, practising grammar and finally, activities to develop students thinking skills.
Jeremy Wysakowski-Walters, Encouraging Critical Thinking in the ELT Classroom : The Socratic Method Adults, ESP, Academic purposes, Talk, 45 minutes The presentation will deal with the use of the Socratic Method to teach English; a method which leads to the authentic creation of language by students and hence the promotion of critical thinking. In turn this method deals with Dale’s cone of learning, ensuring that all language is within the 70-90% spectrum of memory acquisition. Classroom examples will be given through PowerPoint to demonstrate the methods application.