Macmillan Teachers' Day - Macmillan ELT

Dear Teacher,

Visit the Events section on the Macmillan website: http://www.macmillanelt.es/teacher-development/ events/

Once again Macmillan ELT are delighted to invite you to the training highlight of the year – the Macmillan Teachers’ Day which will take place at the Hotel Monte Conquero on Wednesday 10th April 2013.

phone 95 428 04 00 or e-mail [email protected]

REFRESHMENTS & PRIZE DRAW

FIONA MAUCHLINE

A question of confidence (ESO & Bachillerato)

JEANETTE CORBETT

Learning through puzzles and language patterns (8 to 12-year-olds)

Short Break

EMMA THOMAS

Together everyone achieves more! (ESO & Bachillerato)

To reserve places

YVONNE DALORTO

Using phonics in the classroom (3 to 7-year-olds)

ROOM 2: ESO & Bachillerato ROOM 1: Infants & Primary

REGISTRATION

Macmillan Teachers’ Day Huelva

To be held at HOTEL MONTE CONQUERO Avda. Pablo Rada, 10 21004 - Huelva

Macmillan Teachers’ Day Huelva

th 13 Wednesday 10 April 20

At the Macmillan Teachers’ Day our principal aim is to offer you practical training workshops that are designed to reflect current teaching contexts, enabling you to keep up-to-date with the latest innovations. You will take away with you sound activities and ideas that you can use directly in your classrooms. The Macmillan team will be there to give you a warm welcome and will present our materials. As the Macmillan Teachers’ Day is extremely popular, we encourage you to reserve your place as soon as possible. To make registration easier, we have an online registration process. You can reserve your place by visiting Events on the Macmillan website (see below) and submitting the online registration form. Once you have registered, you will receive an email confirmation. Alternatively, you can phone or send an email to the local office, stating your full name, school and the sessions you would like to attend. Tel: 954 280 400 Email: [email protected] Visit our website: /www.macmillanelt.es/teacherdevelopment events/

Best wishes,

20.30

19.20-20.30

19.15-19.20

18.00-19.15

17.45 -18.00

We hope to see you there!

Avd. Hytasa, 36 - Edificio Toledo II 4ª planta, móds 2, 3 y 4 • 41006 Sevilla Tel. 95 428 04 00 • Fax 95 428 46 03 [email protected]

Nigel Bwye Regional Manager

Louise Connolly Head of Teacher Training

Speakers

Speakers

Jeannette Corbett

Emma Thomas

Jeanette is a teacher with 15 years experience,

Emma has taught English for over 20 years

working in Huelva. She is responsible for teacher

to students of all ages and levels in the UK,

training, and young learners’ classes. She is also a

Brazil and Spain. She has been Young Learner

teacher trainer for the International House Young

Coordinator and DOS at International House

Learners course. She regularly gives seminars

Seville. She has also given teacher training

for Macmillan, International House, ACEIA, and

courses and prepared Primary and Secondary

TESOL. She is the co-author of Quest 1, 2, 3 and 4.

school teachers for the ‘oposiciones’ exams. Emma has also worked in a grant maintained

Yvonne Dalorto

(concertado) school teaching English to all

Yvonne has been teaching children at Infant

levels. Emma is currently a Teacher Trainer for

and Primary level for nearly 20 years. She has also

Macmillan ELT.

worked as a play coordinator and trainer in the UK before moving to Spain. Yvonne is a phonics teacher trainer and literacy consultant.

Fiona Mauchline A teacher, teacher trainer and materials writer based in Cáceres, Fiona has been writing for Macmillan since 2005 (inc. Interface 1 & 2, teachers’ books & resources for Voices &

Upgrade...) She writes a blog on learner-centred teaching for teachers of teens and is co-curator of the ‘ELT pics’ an online teachers’ resource.

Sessions Yvonne Dalorto

Sessions Using phonics in the classroom

Emma Thomas



Together everyone achieves more!

(3 to 7 year-olds)

(ESO & Bachillerato)

Do you use phonics in your class or are you planning to? Find out what you can do after the children know their letters and sounds. How to introduce fun phonic activities into your planning (whatever phonics system you use) and high frequency word games. In the session we will also learn about segmenting, blending and preparing the children to read and write.

Language learning requires many forms of interaction in which communication and collaboration with others is essential. By engaging in collaborative learning, students not only get to interact with others on a common task, but they also get to pool and capitalize on one another’s knowledge and skills. Collaborative learning techniques can help us build teams and contribute to a necessary positive learning environment in which learners can thrive to become confident learners, language learners and individuals. In this session, a range of collaborative learning techniques to create a positive learning environment will be demonstrated.

Jeanette Corbett

Learning through puzzles and language patterns (8 to 12 year olds)

Children are very observant and they like puzzles and problem solving. Language can be viewed as a puzzle where children have to spot patterns to understand how a language works. In this session, we will look at different stimulating activities, using flashcards, posters, dossiers and coursebooks that give children opportunities to notice language patterns. You can use them to present, practise and remember language in the classroom. Children will enjoy them while learning and want to play again and again!

Fiona Mauchline A question of confidence

(ESO & Bachillerato)

We all know that confidence is a key factor in successful language learning, and ‘I can’ has become ubiquitous as a catch phrase in recent years, but how easy is it to get teens to realise that it’s true, they can? In this workshop, we’ll try out a simple, five-stage lesson ‘skeleton’ which uses integrated skills to maximum effect with ESO students - then hopefully you’ll not only put words in their mouth but a smile on their face.