What happens when we change the way we look at learning?
The secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence called “grit.”
When students believe that dedication and hard work can change their performance in school, they grow to become resilient, successful students.
Inspired by the popular mindset idea that hard work and effort can lead to success, this session will provides participants with ideas for ways to build a growth mindset classroom culture, wherein students are challenged to change their thinking about their abilities and potential.

You teach it, they study it, they take the test, pass the test, to then forget all about it after a while! Sounds familiar? I bet it does! If you are in the business of education, you are in the business of developing brains. Most teachers pay too much attention to themselves (what they teach, how they teach it) and not to their students. If we want our students to learn, we have to stop teaching, and start helping them learn. This session will provide you with information, strategies and techniques to help you improve student learning in today`s challenging world. Join me! Lots of practical ideas you wish you had learned before!

Teaching is one of the most sacred professions, as a teacher prepares a child for the world; and how they react to different situations and what their mindset will be, is determined to a great extent by the quality of learning that they undergo.

A good teacher is clearly not that who thinks he or she knows everything or one who makes no language mistakes but one whose work evolves. In order to achieve this, analyzing, evaluating and brushing up teaching skills is essential.
However, this is no easy task.
What do we mean by “Teaching Skills” as different from mere reading, writing, listening and speaking? How can we self-assess our work constructively? Does our approach matter?
Let us learn how to take advantage of our own tools to forward learning!

In this seminar we will try to understand the thinking processes of students, based on their age and cognitive development, and identify them according to Bloom's taxonomy. We will discuss some of the most common thinking types and see how we can use EFL activities to help students practice the target language in a creative and inspirational manner

We teachers know that it can be challenging to keep today’s students both engaged and educated: we are always given new ideas and materials to deal with this, without really finding that special key to make it all work. But are we looking at it the wrong way round? Are the very people we are trying to find resources for the ones who are actually the greatest resources in themselves?
In this session, we will be looking at the many ways in which you, as a teacher, can learn strategies and techniques to develop your own students’ ability to become creative and invaluable resources to achieve all of their ELT goals, from learning grammar and vocabulary to producing spoken and written work which will at once engage and educate them, giving them more motivation for the English studies and many useful tools for the wide English-speaking world outside the classroom.

What do Language and Math have in common? Your first guess might be just right…RULES! Knowledge of steady and unbreakable rules seems to be one of the core traits of any successful student. And despite almost thirty years of attempts to implement communicative approaches, little has been done to shake up grammar-based syllabi all over the world, as the illusion persists that it all comes down to to be apparent simplicity and mixed conditionals apparent complexity.
But is that what language learning is about? Is grammar acquisition as linear as it seems at first? Can the language we learn be reduced to a set of rules and its correct application? I am sure all of you have asked yourselves this question at least once and thus made “grammar” one of the most controversial topics in language teaching. On the one hand, language learning implies certain standards of grammatical acceptability, while on the other it should fit into the framework of a communicative approach, should we make communication our main goal.
We will explore the differences between prescriptive and descriptive grammar and the thought-provoking idea of “grammaring” as a process. We will also discuss the role of grammar practice in grammar knowledge, consolidation, and acquisition.

Thinking about teaching Kids? In this interactive Workshop we will share tips on how to help Very Young Learners acquire the skills to communicate, fantastic ways to start your lessons, techniques to energize your students through motion and some tricks that will improve behaviour. Easy & irresistible ideas that will keep children interested, engaged and learning!

Integrating pronunciation work into EFL lessons can sometimes be a hard job: should students learn phonemic symbols? Should we teach all the sounds or only those which hinder intelligibility? Should we point out the correspondence between sounds and spelling? In this session, we will tackle these issues taking into consideration various theoretical standpoints with a view to tailoring EFL materials to our students’ needs.

Social relationships at school impact learning and actually shape your students’ brains! Look into the power of cooperative learning, learn about our amazing mirror neurons and grasp how your expectations affect students’ performance (Pygmalion effect). Take home many practical tools to enhance the social-emotional environment in your class and excel!

Variety as well as Learner Autonomy should be main issues underpinning the planning and organisation of all language lessons.
Differentiation, distinguishability and discrimination are crucial in the design of sustainable pronunciation tasks and task series, which should bridge the gap between correcting oneself as we are told and being able to realise when self reformulation should take place.
Teachers should be responsible for the organisation, delivery and outcome of the learner´s language, in and outside the classroom, and ongoing feedback should be the foundation for success in the production of the target form.

Join Chris Kunz for this interactive workshop and walk out a revamped pronunciation specialist!

Is creativity a “lost treasure” in our demanding everyday work? How can we motivate students to get involved and willing to learn? Can real enjoyment occur in classrooms? The objective of this workshop is to offer empowering, transformational “bodies-on” activities that will answer these questions. Emotional Education makes the difference.

Would you like to turn your classroom into an enjoyable environment and at the same time provide your students with challenging and fruitful activities? In this workshop you will pick up some tips to help your students approach learning in a natural way, discovering language while working with games and stories which promote values.

Motivating tweens is probably the most important factor that educators can target in order to improve learning.
Our challenge includes being aware of their context when designing activities. We will reflect on how to meet our students’ needs and the requirements of our school system without feeling frustrated.

Students don’t like doing homework, hate sitting for exams and get bored in class. Have you ever asked yourself whether there is another way of teaching? Well, there is! Learn how to teach in a pleasant environment! Students will count the days till their English class! They will love English… and you!

Turning parents from critics to collaborators, from spectators to effective team-players and from external evaluators to partners, implies developing fruitful bonds between educators and family members based on mutual empathetic understanding.
The X-Files of Parental Engagement' explores concrete ways in which a generational-friendly style approach can provide tips and solutions for better home-school 21st century partnerships and increased student achievement.

Journal Writing is an excellent tool for personal and social education as well as developing oral and written skills. It is a private practice, non-corrected and only shared at the writer´s consent.
This healthy habit fosters self-awareness, develops emotional intelligence and reflective thinking, paving the way for academic assignments.

Teaching a little child is not an easy task. In this workshop we will learn the steps of a kinder class, useful tips, planning strategies and plenty of songs, games and activities. At the same time we will have fun an play like our little students.

This workshop is about the VAK, the sensory leaning, the brain hemispheres and its parts in order to give teachers tools to recognize how the brain works while we are teaching and how we can deal with students and colleagues once we have those tools available.