During this workshop we will look at: . what Appreciative Inquiry is and how it works . how we can develop it to create a common vision in our organizations . how this methodology can help when team working . how it can be adapted to curriculum design

Coordinators many times occupy the role of mother, assistant, coach, trainer, floating teacher, psychologist, and the list goes on and on. This trait often associated with a sign of excellence, can lead to stress if we do not know how to regulate our emotions. On the other hand, parents, management, students and circumstances create a lot of pressure, and unless we know how to deal with it we can slowly, but steadily, suffer from burnout. Come to this session to learn about emotional intelligence, what burnout is, how we can avoid it, and how to be energized by our job, and not burned out! Join me in this practical and fun presentation to learn how to manage the stress of caring so you can go on caring, for many more years to come

Teaching EFL is more than just teaching a language. It is also about dealing everyday with unmotivated students, mixed-abilities classes, different learning styles, stress and conflicts. How can our teachers cope with these challenges? In this session, we will learn a variety of effective techniques to deal with discipline, large classes, homework, exams and much more. Turn your classroom problems into learning opportunities!

Todo lo que nos vincula con la creatividad requiere de una preparación previa, no tanto desde lo conceptual, sino desde lo individual. Esto es, debemos tener una predisposición abierta y dispuesta para abordar un determinado desafío, que a priori, no nos permite vislumbrar resultados conocidos. La propuesta es tomarse un tiempo para andar caminos poco frecuentes en el ejercicio de lo cotidiano, y recorrer algunos espacios mentales donde sea posible tomar contacto con la propia creatividad bien con la fuerza innovadora del grupo, y ponerla en movimiento.

In education, service is a key element for success. This session will present you with practical solutions to deliver exceptional service! It will reveal customer service secrets for creating an unparalleled customer experience and for igniting passionate employee commitment to an organizational mission! As usual, practical, actionable,and relatable solutions to everyday issues and opportunities you face with students and their families!

Invitational Language consists of a series of techniques (comprising both verbal and body language) which aim at making everyone at school feel strong and capable of succeeding. The strategies (based on neuro-linguistic programming core concepts) are introduced to see the way in which coordinators can bolster both teachers' and students' boundless potential.

Las instituciones educativas lideradas por los denominados “inmigrantes digitales” se enfrentan hoy al desafío de integrarse al universo digital al tiempo que continuar educando en lo analógico. La educación conoce al dedillo el universo analógico, pero sabe mucho menos del digital que aparece como territorio perteneciente a los “nativos digitales”, aquellos que han nacido ya con la cultura digital instalada. Sin embargo, las instituciones van moldeando sus herramientas y son moldeadas a su vez por las tecnologías en una espiral que se retroalimenta permanentemente. En este sentido la presencia en el mundo de Internet, la relación de ello con el currículum y con la identidad corporativa en el ámbito de la web, son nuevas problemáticas que se suman a las que las instituciones ya tenían. El desafío de integrarse al mundo digital, de conciliar los requerimientos de ambos universos no es tarea sencilla. Por eso, buscaremos entender los efectos de esta doble presencia de las instituciones educativas, requerimiento imprescindible en este siglo XXI.

This workshop aims to generate discussion on the concepts of Leadership and Management, analyze how Leaders and Managers can learn from the environment they work in, and how this kind of open-mind to what is going on around us can help us be more effective and help other people grow professionally.

Coordinating effectively at Kindergarten and Early Primary Grades, demands knowing about different Methods and Approaches to acquire a Foreign Language. But it also involves designing your Expectations and Objectives, developing the Annual Curriculum and the Syllabus, planning, observing and evaluating. Teachers should organize Circle Time, work with Learning Centers and consider Classroom Management. Coach your teachers with effective teaching resources as Reference Charts, Games & Songs, Interactive Boards and much more . If you find hard to carry out all these duties, come to this session and discover how to achieve excellence with your kids!

Garantizar la satisfacción de nuestros clientes es de vital importancia para nuestras insituciones. ¿Están todos los miembros de su organización entrenados para tomar quejas, calmar a personas enojadas y sacar el mejor beneficio de la situación?
No se pierda este taller plagado de ideas, técnicas y consejos, a través del humor, la capacitación y la reflexión!

Laura is the author of "Marketing for educational institutions" a most acclaimed seminar for people who are not marketers. Now, she applies her unparalleled clarity, insight, humor and expertise and brings fresh tips, new tools, and more techniques to walk you step-by-step through the essentials of developing a successful marketing process in your institutions- with no money involved! Moneyless marketing will help you get focused, stay focused and follow the essential rules to success by doing the little things right, and the big things even better!

This presentation will highlight strategies and tools for effective professional development that use teachers' expertise and available resources to promote students' learning. Using videos and discussions, the presentation will introduce concepts such as site based professional development, effective training models, sustained professional development, design, coaching, professional learning communities, workshops, and evaluation.

The digital text and the Internet are tools and channels for education and qualified jobs. Are we preparing students for that? We will break this challenge into its components. We'll share state of the art information, reflect and analyze. Then, we'll have a moment for collaborative work and finally we will design a personal action plan towards teaching digital literacy.

Directors and advisors have become aware of the importance of establishing language standards and have long struggle with their choice and use to better enhance language performance. When programming syllabus for language learning, Competencies and Standards should be tailored appropriately in order to convey the learner's level of attainment established in the program.

In this hands-on session, we will work in teams to explore and maximise the power of teamwork, autonomy, ownership and technology in developing new learning strategies. Based on the Deep-Dive™ approach from the corporate world to focus on management, we will experience its application in educational contexts and eventually also in the classroom. The challenge is to innovate, following Mr Sugata Mitra and Sir Ken Robinson’s views on the need to change paradigms and give coordinators (and teachers) ideas on how to re-place (not replace!) the teacher when working with digital natives.

This presentation is about once a program has accomplished its goal of stabilizing itself, reaching fiscal security, and having a sustainable enrollment, what the program administration and faculty need to consider for the next step, especially when "upper administrators want the program to continue to grow but cannot offer specifics.