Monday 26 August 2019

Inspire, Involve, Innovate (OUP Teacher Training Conference 2019)

Oxford University Press ran a three-day teacher training event in Budapest on 22-24 August 2019, where I delivered three workshops and a plenary talk. 

My workshop for Secondary teachers focused on the development of Writing skills for exams. Click here to download a PDF copy of the presentation.

The workshop for Upper Primary teachers was about co-operative learning. One of the activities involved jigsaw reading, and you can download a copy of all four extracts we looked at together. If you're interested in the original article by Rebecca Alber, click here to access it on Edutopia. To download a PDF copy of my presentation, click here.

The afternoon plenary looked at how we can prepare our learners for the B2 school-leaving examination (emelt szintű érettségi) with the help of Oxford Exam Trainer B2 (OUP, 2020). Click here to download a PDF copy of the presentation.

The final day of the event had repeated workshop sessions, of which mine focused on what motivated us first to become teachers of English - and how we could maintain that motivation throughout our professional careers. Click here to download a PDF copy of the presentation.