Month: February 2019

Josh and Tim are experienced teacher trainers with a variety of different teacher development talks and workshops under their belts. If you’re interested in booking either of them to give a session at your school or institution, below you’ll find a menu of the different sessions they offer.

Contact details:

Tim Warre: tim_rd_warre@hotmail.com

Josh Widdows: joshwiddows@hotmail.com

Josh: Teacher Development Workshops

Josh Widdows delivers a range of workshops for teachers to brush up on their teaching with practical ideas that bring the classroom to life, to enhance our students’ learning experience.

 

These sessions have been delivered in various academies around Barcelona throughout 2018. Tailor-made workshops can be developed on request. Sessions are 90 minutes, but can be adapted to 1 hour if necessary.

 

Pre-developed workshops:         100 euros

Tailor-made workshops:            130 euros

 

Practical Pronunciation

Some teachers shy away from integrating pronunciation into their teaching due to lack of knowledge or lack of confidence in demonstration and drilling.

A practical session on ways of using phonemic script both as a teaching tool in the classroom and as a resource for students to use themselves at home.

For all levels and age groups.

 

Revitalise Revision

Revision is often left to the last minute, when really it should be central to our syllabus.

A session of practical ideas to help teachers provide their students with more effective ways to revise and feel better prepared for exams.

For all levels and age groups.

 

The Key to Teaching Transformations

Key Word Transformations can be taxing for our students, so we should give them much more practice, not only with the techniques employed, but also with the grammatical structures used.

A practical session of activities to help learners unscramble the puzzle of Key Word Transformations more effectively. The workshop gives our students multiple opportunities to discover, analyse and practise the embedded grammatical structures in some surprisingly dynamic ways.

Suitable for all main suite exam level teachers, but open to all.

 

Making your board work

What do students spend most their time looking at in the classroom? The board.

A practical session in ways of using colour, layering, planning and visual aids so that boardwork is more effective and enhances the student’s learning experience.

For all levels and age groups.

Tim: Teacher Development Workshops

Tim delivers a range of different 90-minute teacher development sessions, the titles of which are listed below, email me for further details. Bespoke sessions are also available.

Off-the-peg workshops:         100 euros

Bespoke workshops:            130 euros

• An introduction to pronunciation: Phonemic script & connected speech
• Making exam classes more engaging
• Grammar Refresher – Fresh ideas for teaching typical grammar structures
• Skills Refresher – Fresh ideas for developing receptive & productive skills
• Using podcasts in the classroom
• Using authentic materials in the classroom
• Classroom lifesavers: warmers & games
• A crash course in young learners
• A project-based syllabus for young learners
• An introduction to Cambridge exams
• Teaching very young learners (3-6 years old)
• Teaching proficiency & beyond
• Blogging & developing your own materials