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Programme

Young Learners

Distant learning
Listening and speaking
Reading and writing

Teens

Task-based learning
Gamification
Learning autonomy

Battle: English only or L1

2 teachers
2 opposite opinions
pros and cons

Failure talks

4 teachers
4 epic fails
4 lessons learned

Inspiration

15 speakers
10 hours
500+ participants online

Networking

ELT cafe
Networking sessions
Face2face communication

New spring, new trends

Last year was crucial for the whole system of education. First we were forced to abruptly switch from offline to online teaching, then we faced asynchronous and mixed formats in addition to synchronous ones.
We have tested many different platforms, methods, and quickly adapted the online learning methodology.
On the eve of a new spring, we are summing up the results of what we have achieved this year, what we can take with us for further work with this category of students.

Speakers

Olha Madylus
Developing Listening and Speaking Skills for Communication and Fun
Olha has taught in the UK, Greece, Hong Kong and Venezuela. She is a freelance author, materials' designer, consultant and teacher trainer. She is based in London and as well as working with Cambridge University Press does consultation, teacher training and teacher trainer training for organisations such as The British Council and Ministries of Education worldwide. Her main focus is on understanding and motivating learners. She is the author of Film, TV and Music, a photocopiable activities book for teenagers, Cambridge University Press.
Rob Howard
Student-made video projects to enhance speaking and soft skills
Rob is the owner of Online Language Center and managing partner of Business Language Training Institute. He is an active EFL, Communication skills and business English teacher and Neurolanguage Coach. He is Joint Coordinator for the IATEFL BESIG, Online and Video Coordinator for the Visual Arts Circle and has authored and coauthored several books for EFL as well as co-founder of the Independent Authors & Publishers. He is a speaker worldwide on Online teaching, Technology, Continuing Professional Development, Business Development and Image Presentation and the founder of EFLtalks - teachers teaching teachers, a finalist for the 2016 British Council's ELTon Award for Innovation in Teacher Resources.
Michelle Jagger
The importance of reading and how to encourage reluctant readers in the ELT classroom
Michelle worked for over 20 years as an English trainer to a variety of private, commercial and institutional clients. Her learners were of all ages from adults, to teenagers and young children. Now as an educational consultant, she enjoys helping learners through supporting teachers with excellent English teaching materials from DELTA.
Michelle is a member of the English Language Teachers' Association Stuttgart (ELTAS) and is a certified Neurolanguage® Coach.
Neil Anderson
Task-based Learning Online: Teaching Teenagers
Neil Anderson is a freelance teacher trainer for various organisations including International House Budapest, Euroexam International, ALS House and The Distance DELTA. He is also a co-author of the Delta Publishing title Ideas in Action: Activities for Task-based Learning, and co-run the blog Fluency First ELT, devoted to online task-based lessons.
Tatiana Fanshtein
Tatiana is a devoted very young learners and teens teacher, freelance teacher trainer and conference speaker. She shares her unique experience on her Instagram blog called tatiana_theteacher. Tatiana's created 10 online courses, has given quite a few webinars and seminars. More than 1000 people have taken her online courses for teachers.
Maria Tsoy
To use or not to use native language at English lessons?
Maria is a teacher of English and a teacher trainer, a recognized expert in early language developement and Cambridge YLE preparation.She has designed a system of natural language aquisition known as EXPLORER METHOD.
Elena Peresada
Why gamification doesn't work in the classroom
Game-educator, game-designer, the Head of Trendy English.
Lira Karabeinikova
Preschoolers online? Nobody likes distance learning, especially kids!
Lira is a devoted very young and young learners teacher, a senior teacher at Explorer School. She uses the method of natural language acquisition known as EXPLORER METHOD
Viktoriya Voytsekhovskaya
Meme, cringe, crash or how to make topics relevant for the student
Viktoriya is a senior methodologist in Skysmart, has a 8 years experience in teaching different ages and levels. She has been working as a deputy director in the center for children and in the summer camp. Also she organized two projects for teenagers connected with startups and entrepreneurship. Viktoriya is fond of making lessons that engage the students.
Anita Modestova
To use or not to use native language at English lessons?
Anita is a CELTA qualified teacher, psychologist and business trainer. She specialises in teaching general English to adults, low levels and also delivers seminars on how to build your career as a self-employed teacher. Anita manages her own professional development community for teachers of English - Teachers Teach Teachers: http://teachers-teach-teachers.com
Aida Tarankova
Using Montessori principles in teaching very young learners reading and writing
Aida has over 5 years of experience in teaching English to very young and young learners. Uses the method of natural language acquisition. Has worked as a VYL teacher in a Bilingual Montesssori Center for 3 year. Runs a VK community for teacher of English. Since September 2020 is a founder of the English studio for children aged 3-12. Materials creator. Holds a TKT YL certificate.
Maria Vavilova
Addressing 21st century skills in the very young learners classroom
Maria is a CELTA qualified teacher, teacher trainer, VYL materials writer with more than 12 years experience in ESL teaching and management. Maria specializes in teaching English to the very young learners (2-7 y.o) using total immersion programs. She is a DOS in Discovery English Preschool ( 20 branches in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
Oksana Yaverbaum
A child knows both the English alphabet and the signs of phonetic transcription – but why cannot he read?
Completing MA in theory of literature at UNISA Oksana taught at South African primary school. After returning to Russia, founded a language center for teaching EFL to preschoolers with Letterland system. Now an authorized Letterland International teacher trainer for Russia, she runs workshops, online courses for teachers and parents, teaches EFL to young learners at a multilingual private school in Moscow. Oksana runs a blog on early language teaching and bilingualism and published several articles in Russian and international journals on EFL- teaching.
Natalya Ivanova
A lesson created by students: myth or reality
DOS at language school Inotext, Novosibirsk, a teacher with more than 15 years of experience, and a teacher trainer, a speaker at Trendy English Talks Siberia. The organizer of CPD conferences for teachers in Novosibirsk. Specializes in teaching teens.
James Egerton
Teaching Teens: Conflict or Collaboration?
James is a Delta-qualified CELTA tutor and teacher at International House Rome Accademia Britannica. He also blogs on ELT at www.jamesegerton.wordpress.com.
Eugenia Denisova
English teacher with over 10 years of experience of teaching English.
Author of role-playing and board games designed for English learners.
Founder of 'Igrammatika' (online and offline meetings for English Teachers where they learn how to play board games in English; as well as how to be an effective Game Master for their students)
Accent coach working with 2 different accents (British and American)

Schedule

Moscow Time	Presentation
08:00 - 08:10	Welcome
08:10 - 08:40	Aida Tarankova Using Montessori principles in teaching very young learners reading and writing Can your students read and write at the age of 4 or 5? If this questions stuns you and you have never though about early developing of reading and writing skills in your students, then in this talk you will find out how to do that. Aida will share her own experience of teaching very young learners reading and writing. She will talk about effective ways to do that using one of the Montessori principles of global reading. She will demonstrate materials and give examples of practical activities you can do with little ones to help them start reading and writing. You will also see short videos of Aida's lessons as she does these activities with her students.	Young Learners
08:40 - 08:45	Break
08:45 - 09:15	Viktoriya Voytsekhovskaya Meme, cringe, crash or how to make topics relevant for the student It often seems to us teachers that teenagers speak a different language. It is said that they are interested in something weird and even stupid sometimes. And it is thought that a teacher can go crazy from the words that teenagers constantly use in their speech. And students often nag that they are bored from the usual topics in a student’s book. I will tell you how to understand your teenage students and how to make a usual topic from a student’s book relevant for students. And if they are interested, they will speak without a stop!	Teens
09:15 - 09:25	Break
09:25 - 09:55	Lira Karabeinikova Preschoolers online? Nobody likes distance learning, especially kids! That's what I thought before I tried it. But HOW can we keep and hold a three-year-old's attention? How to get them speaking English at their homes next to their Russian-speaking mums? Lira will share her own experience of teaching very young learners online. She will demonstrate the ways to overcome the difficulties and give examples of practical activities you can do with little ones.	Young Learners
09:55 - 10:25	Happy Hour
10:25 - 10:55	Maria Vavilova Addressing 21st century skills in the very young learners classroom During the talk we will discuss some simple activities that will contribute to the students' self-exploration, inquiry, and discovery and provide young learners with the opportunity to develop their creativity and critical abilities by making new connections to the acquired knowledge.	Young Learners
10:55 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:45	Michelle Jagger The importance of reading and how to encourage reluctant readers in the ELT classroom In this webinar, our Educational Consultant Michelle Jagger will look at the importance of reading in English learning, and look at practices to improve reading skills both in and outside the ELT classroom. Using examples from the DELTA Graded Readers and DELTA Team Readers series, Michelle will show how you can encourage even the most reluctant teen readers, through engaging and relevant storylines with differentiation built-in. The aim is to make reading a pleasurable experience for all students.	Teens
11:45 - 11:55	Break
11:55 - 12:40	Battle: Maria Tsoy vs Anita Modestova To use or not to use native language at English lessons? Maria supports the idea of English only in class in the battle, Anita supports the idea of Native language can be used in class.
12:40 - 12:50	Break
12:50 - 13:35	Olha Madylus Developing Listening and Speaking Skills for Communication and Fun Young children do not find it easy to use English to communicate in the classroom, as their mother tongue comes far more naturally and easily. This presentation explores the challenges teachers and learners face in developing listening and speaking skills at this age and offers practical solutions to overcome these challenges and build habits which ensure children use English to communicate. Classroom routines, strategies and activities will be presented and analysed. Teachers will leave with practical ideas to take straight back to their classrooms.	Young Learners
13:35 - 13:45	Break
13:45 - 14:00	Elena Peresada Why gamification doesn’t work in the classroom Today gamification is a buzz word. A big problem with gamification is that most people just think about it as adding some points, badges and a leaderboard, which is not true gamification. In my talk I’ll demonstrate the difference between gamification and pointification. I’ll give a step-by-step scheme of how to develop a working gamification frame and solve problems you face in your classroom	Teens
14:00 - 14:05	Break
14:05 - 14:50	Failure Talks: Tatiana Fanshtein, James Egerton, Eugenia Denisova, Oksana Yaverbaum
14:50 - 14:55	Break
14:55 - 15:25	Happy Hour
15:25 - 15:30	Break
15:30 - 16:15	Neil Anderson Task-based Learning Online: Teaching Teenagers Task-based Learning (TBL), also known as Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), is experiencing renewed interest decades after it first gained attention. In this session we will review what is and what is not a “task” according to established criteria. We will explore the benefits of the approach both in general and more specifically for promoting engaging, meaningful and communicative lessons when teaching online, as part of this we will look at some example online lesson ideas that participants can readily use with their teenage learners. In particular, participants will take away practical ideas for how to use Google Jamboard to facilitate engaging, communicative task-based lessons.	Teens
16:20 - 16:30	Break
16:30 - 17:00	Natalia Ivanova A lesson created by students: myth or reality We teachers bring lots of interesting activities in class as we think. Some of the tasks work well, but others not. As a result students are not engaged 100% into the learning process and it results in different cases of misbehavior and lack of motivation. What can we do keep students' attention without entertaining them all the time? The answer is easy. Let them construct their own activities or even a lesson plan. I will provide you some ideas how to do it	Teens
17:00 - 17:05	Break
17:05 - 17:35	Rob Howard Student-made video projects to enhance speaking and soft skills Most teens today are well versed at producing videos for social media. This is an important soft skill for the future and should be developed and practiced. Since 2007, I have been using student-made video projects to stimulate teenaged students to plan, script, film and present a variety of videos that have increased oral production, confidence, and fluency through out-of-class assignments with varied subjects. This talk will outline the methodology, implementation, and benefits. This project is perfect for face-2-face and online classes as the student work is done outside of the classroom. Examples will be shown.	Teens
17:35 - 18:00	Closing

08:00 - 08:10;Welcome 08:10 - 08:40;Aida Tarankova Using Montessori principles in teaching very young learners reading and writing Can your students read and write at the age of 4 or 5? If this questions stuns you and you have never though about early developing of reading and writing skills in your students, then in this talk you will find out how to do that. Aida will share her own experience of teaching very young learners reading and writing. She will talk about effective ways to do that using one of the Montessori principles of global reading. She will demonstrate materials and give examples of practical activities you can do with little ones to help them start reading and writing. You will also see short videos of Aida's lessons as she does these activities with her students.;Young Learners 08:40 - 08:45;Break 08:45 - 09:15;Viktoriya Voytsekhovskaya Meme, cringe, crash or how to make topics relevant for the student It often seems to us teachers that teenagers speak a different language. It is said that they are interested in something weird and even stupid sometimes. And it is thought that a teacher can go crazy from the words that teenagers constantly use in their speech. And students often nag that they are bored from the usual topics in a student’s book. I will tell you how to understand your teenage students and how to make a usual topic from a student’s book relevant for students. And if they are interested, they will speak without a stop!; Teens 09:15 - 09:25;Break 09:25 - 09:55;Lira Karabeinikova Preschoolers online? Nobody likes distance learning, especially kids! That's what I thought before I tried it. But HOW can we keep and hold a three-year-old's attention? How to get them speaking English at their homes next to their Russian-speaking mums? Lira will share her own experience of teaching very young learners online. She will demonstrate the ways to overcome the difficulties and give examples of practical activities you can do with little ones.; Young Learners 09:55 - 10:25;Happy Hour 10:25 - 10:55;Maria Vavilova Addressing 21st century skills in the very young learners classroom During the talk we will discuss some simple activities that will contribute to the students' self-exploration, inquiry, and discovery and provide young learners with the opportunity to develop their creativity and critical abilities by making new connections to the acquired knowledge.; Young Learners 10:55 - 11:00;Break 11:00 - 11:45;Michelle Jagger The importance of reading and how to encourage reluctant readers in the ELT classroom In this webinar, our Educational Consultant Michelle Jagger will look at the importance of reading in English learning, and look at practices to improve reading skills both in and outside the ELT classroom. Using examples from the DELTA Graded Readers and DELTA Team Readers series, Michelle will show how you can encourage even the most reluctant teen readers, through engaging and relevant storylines with differentiation built-in. The aim is to make reading a pleasurable experience for all students. ;Teens 11:45 - 11:55;Break 11:55 - 12:40;Battle: Maria Tsoy vs Anita Modestova To use or not to use native language at English lessons? Maria supports the idea of English only in class in the battle, Anita supports the idea of Native language can be used in class. 12:40 - 12:50;Break 12:50 - 13:35;Olha Madylus Developing Listening and Speaking Skills for Communication and Fun Young children do not find it easy to use English to communicate in the classroom, as their mother tongue comes far more naturally and easily. This presentation explores the challenges teachers and learners face in developing listening and speaking skills at this age and offers practical solutions to overcome these challenges and build habits which ensure children use English to communicate. Classroom routines, strategies and activities will be presented and analysed. Teachers will leave with practical ideas to take straight back to their classrooms.; Young Learners 13:35 - 13:45;Break 13:45 - 14:00;Elena Peresada Why gamification doesn’t work in the classroom Today gamification is a buzz word. A big problem with gamification is that most people just think about it as adding some points, badges and a leaderboard, which is not true gamification. In my talk I’ll demonstrate the difference between gamification and pointification. I’ll give a step-by-step scheme of how to develop a working gamification frame and solve problems you face in your classroom;Teens 14:00 - 14:05;Break 14:05 - 14:50;Failure Talks: Tatiana Fanshtein, James Egerton, Eugenia Denisova, Oksana Yaverbaum 14:50 - 14:55;Break 14:55 - 15:25;Happy Hour 15:25 - 15:30;Break 15:30 - 16:15;Neil Anderson Task-based Learning Online: Teaching Teenagers Task-based Learning (TBL), also known as Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT), is experiencing renewed interest decades after it first gained attention. In this session we will review what is and what is not a “task” according to established criteria. We will explore the benefits of the approach both in general and more specifically for promoting engaging, meaningful and communicative lessons when teaching online, as part of this we will look at some example online lesson ideas that participants can readily use with their teenage learners. In particular, participants will take away practical ideas for how to use Google Jamboard to facilitate engaging, communicative task-based lessons.;Teens 16:20 - 16:30;Break 16:30 - 17:00;Natalia Ivanova A lesson created by students: myth or reality We teachers bring lots of interesting activities in class as we think. Some of the tasks work well, but others not. As a result students are not engaged 100% into the learning process and it results in different cases of misbehavior and lack of motivation. What can we do keep students' attention without entertaining them all the time? The answer is easy. Let them construct their own activities or even a lesson plan. I will provide you some ideas how to do it;Teens 17:00 - 17:05; Break 17:05 - 17:35; Rob Howard Student-made video projects to enhance speaking and soft skills Most teens today are well versed at producing videos for social media. This is an important soft skill for the future and should be developed and practiced. Since 2007, I have been using student-made video projects to stimulate teenaged students to plan, script, film and present a variety of videos that have increased oral production, confidence, and fluency through out-of-class assignments with varied subjects. This talk will outline the methodology, implementation, and benefits. This project is perfect for face-2-face and online classes as the student work is done outside of the classroom. Examples will be shown. ;Teens 17:35 - 18:00; Closing

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