Happy New Year everyone! I have exciting news for any Barcelona-based teachers. I will be giving my “Atomic Classroom Habits” talk, based on James Clear’s book “Atomic Habits”, at the Jornades Multilingües EIM-UB at the University of Barcelona on Saturday 20th January.
Follow this link to take a look at the programme. It’s a whole day (9-15h) of professional development workshops and talks delivered in a range of languages, all for only €15! So if you’re in the area, check it out!
This Saturday 17th April, Katy Wright and I will be giving a webinar as part of the APAC Spring Workshop series.
The theme of the series is Teaching Outside the Box and the title of our webinar is: What 2020 Taught us and How to Keep it Going. We’ll look at lessons we’ve learned from teaching during the pandemic and share practical ideas and lesson plans.
Follow the link below to sign up!
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 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 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
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Calling Barcelona-based English teachers! Eleanor Walker, DoS of Useful Languages, and I are going to be setting up weekly teacher training workshops to help teachers tackle exam classes for the main suite of Cambridge exams (FCE, CAE, CPE) starting on Friday February 24th.
We want to base the sessions on your needs so if you’re interested in attending it would be great if you could complete the surveymonkey below so we can get an idea of what to focus on and also the time-slot that suits you best.
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Are you an English teacher based in Barcelona or the surrounding area? Are you stuck for ideas for Christmas based activities for your classes in the run-up to the festive season? Then why not come along to our free Christmas teaching workshop on Friday 9th December.
If you can, please bring an idea for an activity to share with the group. We will try to cover activities for all ages, from young learners to adults.
Please confirm your attendance by emailing Eleanor at: eleanor@uflbarcelona.com
Hope to see you there!