Wednesday
26th April 2017
10.00 – 15.30 Brussels, Belgium.
Join Cambridge for a Better Learning Experience that will bring you deeper insights, richer content and inspiration to build better experiences inside and outside of the classroom.
Come and experience a full day of Better Learning with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge English Language Assessment, the British Council and Van In - De Boeck.
How to register Pease send an email at infobenelux@cambridge.org and include the following information: your full name, name of your institution. A confirmation email will be sent within 3 days, however if your registration doesn’t contain the above required information we won’t be able to process it.
If you have any queries, please contact infobenelux@cambridge.org
This event is FREE for all teachers. Coffee and lunch will be provided free of charge.
Places are strictly limited and will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
Agenda — Wednesday 26th April 2017 10.00 – 10.30
12.15 – 13.00
15.00 – 15.30
REGISTRATION WITH COFFEE AND TEA
COMPLIMENTARY LUNCH AND EXHIBITION
CHAMPAGNE COCKTAIL AND QUIZ
10.30 – 10.45
13.00 – 14.00
INTRODUCTION
PRESENTATION
Adrian Mc Cormick
Annabel Marriott
Experience Better Learning
Discovering the world through English
10.45 – 12.15
14.00 – 15.00
PLENARY
PRESENTATION
Herbert Puchta
Julien Lannoy and Michelle Van Toorn
Helping teens to think beyond language
Power up your classroom with Cambridge digital tools
Introduction
EXPERIENCE BETTER LEARNING Adrian Mc Cormick
Better Learning is all about you. It’s what you want to give your students if you’re a teacher of English, or to experience if you’re a student. Language doesn’t stand still and neither does the way we learn. Our resources are flexible and respond to your teaching environment and the needs of your students. Better Learning is our promise to you to provide support, resources and technology that you can trust, so you can focus on doing what you do best — teach.
Conferences
HELPING TEENS TO THINK BEYOND LANGUAGE Herbert Puchta
Latest studies into the teenage brain reveal why adolescents are prone to risk-taking, but at the same time have amazing potential for change and social adaptability. For educators, this offers excellent opportunities to build strong language skills while at the same time challenging their teenage students to think beyond language, with an emphasis on critical thinking, values and self-esteem — ensuring academic and lifelong success. In this session, Herbert will use examples from his new course book, Think, in order to demonstrate how language learning for teenagers can be made more memorable by engaging students in real‑life thinking tasks aimed at developing their self-esteem and critical thinking skills. You will also see examples of how you can maximize teaching time and track students’ progress with the help of Think and the Cambridge Learning Management System.
DISCOVERING THE WORLD THROUGH ENGLISH
POWER UP YOUR CLASSROOM WITH CAMBRIDGE DIGITAL TOOLS
Annabel Marriott
Julien Lannoy and Michelle Van Toorn
We know that student engagement and an enjoyable class environment are crucial to successful learning. But it’s also true that in our increasingly competitive world and intense focus on targets and exam scores it’s not always easy to create engaging, motivating lessons that also thoroughly prepare teenagers to achieve good results.
Our range of digital components and resources create a stimulating classroom environment and help free up your time to do what you do best-teach.
So how can we achieve this balance and start to reignite our students’ natural curiosity and love of learning? At the same time, how can we encourage them to broaden their minds and learn more about the world around them through English? In this session you will see examples of material from our new Secondary course, Eyes Open, with a particular focus on how video can be exploited for enjoyable lessons that are also easy to prepare.
This session will give you an overview of all of the teaching resources for both Think and Eyes Open on the Cambridge Learning Management System. This is a simple, easy-to-use platform that creates a place where students can interact with content, collaborate with other learners to practice language in a social context, and communicate with their teacher outside the classroom. It allows you to manage classes and track progress, highlighting areas of strength and weakness for ongoing performance improvement. We will also demonstrate our easy-to-use Presentation Plus technology with student and workbook content, embedded audio and video! We will finish by showing some of the web resources (tâches complexes/champs thématiques) available to download.
Our Speakers HERBERT PUCHTA
ANNABEL MARRIOTT
JULIEN LANNOY
Herbert Puchta holds a Ph.D. in ELT Pedagogy.
Annabel Marriott is a Publisher at Cambridge University Press.
Julien Lannoy is Senior executive focusing on Online & Blended Learning in Western Europe.
For several years, he was Professor of English at the Teacher Training University in Graz, Austria. He has been a plenary speaker at numerous international conferences and has conducted workshops and given seminars in more than 50 countries.
She has over 14 years’ experience of developing successful ELT courses, including the first edition of English in Mind.
He was also President of IATEFL (the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language).
She has also commissioned and developed several Cambridge Exam preparation titles, and most recently Eyes Open, a new four-level lower secondary course.
For almost three decades, Herbert has done research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology and brain research to the teaching of English as a foreign language.
Prior to her career in Cambridge, Annabel worked for a number of years as a teacher and teacher trainer in the UK, Japan, Spain and the Czech Republic.
Herbert has co-authored numerous course books including English in Mind, a very popular and much loved title in Belgium. His latest course books are More! 2nd Edition, and Think.
He started to work for Cambridge University Press in 2010 as a Sales Representative and has since then been one of the contacts for teachers and customers in France & Benelux for all queries regarding Cambridge University Press range of materials and courses.
MICHELLE VAN TOORN
ADRIAN MC CORMICK
Michelle van Toorn is ELT Consultant for Flanders and the Netherlands.
Adrian Mc Cormick is Manager for Benelux at Cambridge University Press.
She started to work for Cambridge University Press in 2016.
He has been based in Belgium for 13 years and is responsible for a small team of 5 in Benelux.
Michelle is responsible for visiting schools and giving advice to teachers on Cambridge University Press ELT materials.
Adrian has now been working for Cambridge University Press for 15 years.
How to get there ?
The International Auditorium Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 BE-1210 Brussels www.theinternationalauditorium.be
BY TRAIN It’s an easy 6–7 minute walk from the Gare du Nord. Please consult International Auditorium website for more detailed information.
SPECIAL OFFER All participants will receive a specimen copy of Think and Eyes Open. We will also provide discount on all Cambridge University Press books on the day. All participants will also receive a certificate of attendance.