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Which lecture do you want to attend? (You can choose more than one)
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Time
Lecture Title
Venue
Type
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Uncertainty
13
February
18:00
As educational professionals, it feels as if we work in a world of increasing certainties. Researchers
measure and quantify what we do and make proposals about best practice. Coursebooks (and
presumably their writers and publishers) seem to have worked out how best to organise learning
content for the classroom. School owners and their management teams tell students how long it will
take them to progress through each level – and they tell teachers exactly how long they should take to
cover each unit of the book. Inspectors seem to know exactly what they are looking for when they
observe our lessons.
So …
… why do I still feel so unsure about everything?
This talk is an exploration of uncertainty in education (and the lack of it). The implications for teaching
are surprisingly important and far-reaching.
AUA
Mannogian
Hall
Free
Upgrade! Demand High to Bring a Grammar Lesson Alive
14
February
11:00
The involving practical talk demonstrates how every teacher can get more out of routine coursebook
exercises.
Demand-High teaching is active, interventionist, challenging teaching. DH proposes that a teacher can
be a “teacher” again.
This session offers concrete practical techniques to get away from ritualised coursebook use, to help
engineer a deep engagement with grammar and to make learning more visible, challenge students and
nudge them to achieve more than they thought possible.
Demand high! Aim for upgrade!
Ani Plaza
Hotel
Free
Getting Your Hands Dirty With Grammar
(A workshop)
14
February
15:00
Most coursebooks nowadays are pretty good. Most teachers are pretty good at exploiting them – with
competitions, games, running around etc all in the hope that these will jazz up exercises and make the
lesson more entertaining - although what they often do is pull the focus away from the real work.
Paid
Ani Plaza
Hotel
(5000
AMD)
This session offers concrete practical techniques to get away from ritualised coursebook use, to help
engineer a deep engagement with grammar, vocabulary, texts and exercises and to make learning
more visible, challenge students and nudge them to achieve more than they thought possible.
The Underknown Skills of Classroom Management
For many teachers, classroom management seems to be almost entirely about making groups, moving
chairs and giving instructions. But there are many wonderful, easy-to-learn techniques (unknown or
unused even by experienced teachers) that can transform a classroom by getting students engaged,
interacting and really focussed on learning.
15
February
11:00
You will discover some techniques you may know well – but also others that are new to you – and
which have the potential to completely alter the quality of your teaching and your students’ learning.
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Some of the techniques we’ll look at:
Walking away
Not rubberstamping
Blank face
Devil’s advocate
Intentional not hearing.
Ani Plaza
Hotel
Free