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The document outlines the schedule and sessions for a two-day regional ELT conference taking place on February 25-26, 2013 in Ilo, Peru. The conference includes 9 sessions over the two days, presented by experts in areas such as critical literacy, content and language integrated learning, encouraging participation, and reading circles. Presenters include Cecilia Rosas Delgado, Fernando Amado Lopez, Gabriela Martinez, Jeanne Luz Ortiz, and Ricardo Benavides Scott. The conference is organized by Dr. MajidSafadaranMosazadeh and aims to provide teachers with the latest knowledge and strategies for teaching English as a foreign language.
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- 1. Regional ELT conference - Enrique Meiggs Ilo February 25 & 26, 2013 February 25, 2013 08:45 to 09:00 am Opening speech(Mr. Juan Flores, School Principal, Enrique Meiggs school) 09:00 to 10:30am 1st session CRITICAL LITERACY IN ELT: EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP (Cecilia Rosas Delgado, consultant, SM publishing) 10:30 to 11:00 am coffee break 11:00 to 12:30 pm 2nd session LOTS vs. HOTS (Jeanne Luz Ortiz, Academic & technology coordinator, Macmillan) 12:30 to 02:00 pm lunch 02:00 to 03:30 pm 3rdsession BEYOND FOUR SKILLS CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING (Gabriela Martinez, speaker, Pearson) 03:30 to 04:00 pm coffee break 04:00 to 05:30 pm 4th session ENCOURAGING CLASS PARTICIPATION THROUGH CREATIVE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES (Fernando Amado Lopez, Teacher Trainer, Richmond) February 26, 2013 08:45 to 10:00 am 5thsession ON THE WAY TO TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES (Fernando Amado Lopez, Teacher Trainer, Richmond) 10:00 to 10:15 am coffee break 10:15 to 11:30 pm 6thsession CRITICAL THINKING (Jeanne Luz Ortiz, Academic & technology coordinator, Macmillan) 11:30 to 12:45 pm 7thsession THE ARTS AND ENGLISH TEACHING TO YOUNG LEARNERS (Gabriela Martinez, speaker, Pearson) 12:45 to 02:00 pm lunch 02:00 to 03:15 pm 8thsession READING CIRCLES: A MAGIC FORMULA FOR NATURAL, ENJOYABLE DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLISH (Ricardo Benavides Scott, Senior Educational Consultant, Oxford) 03:15 to 03:30 pm coffee break 03:30 to 04:45 pm 9th session DEMISTIFYING CLIL (Cecilia Rosas Delgado, consultant, SM publishing) Organized by: Dr. MajidSafadaranMosazadeh External advisor for Southern Copper APEC schools
- 2. CECILIA ROSAS DELGADO BIODATA: Mrs. Cecilia Rosas Delgado holds a BA in Psychology, a MA in Educational Psychology and English as a Foreign Language, the RSA from University of Cambridge, and a Diploma in Educational Management, amongst other qualifications. She has worked for the most prestigious language schools, bilingual schools and publishers in the country, holding coordination positions for the past 15 years. At present she is the Director of the Language Center at the InstitutoPedag坦gicoNacional de Monterrico, and a consultant in Bilingual Education and CLIL. WORKSHOP 1 CRITICAL LITERACY IN ELT: EDUCATION FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP In order to help teachers understand the importance of Global Issues and perspectives in the ELT classroom, and help them incorporate this new "vision" in their everyday lessons, in this workshop we will discuss how we can shift our focus from our traditional perspective, to a Global perspective, without adding loads of work and stress to our lesson planning and discuss the importance and the implications of enabling our students to look at global issues critically from different perspectives. WORKSHOP 2 DEMISTIFYING CLIL CLIL is one of the buzz words in ELT these days, but, what is it? In this workshop, teachers will discuss the central features of CLIL and the demands it makes on schools, teachers and teaching materials. They will also be able to revise the most commonly used strategies and the structure of a CLIL lesson while they follow a teaching sequence based on CLIL principles. FERNANDO CARLOS AMADO LPEZ BIODATA: Fernando Amado holds the Cambridge English Proficiency certificate (CPE), and the certificate in English Language Teaching from Thomas Jefferson Institute and is currently pursuing his Master卒s Degree in English Teaching from FUNIBER-Universidad de Piura. Fernando has over ten years of experience in ELT in private schools, and language centers both as teacher and coordinator. He has also prepared ESP courses tailor-made to suit the needs of the hiring company. He has conducted workshops for several years and given speeches to young adults about leadership and motivation. WORKSHOP 1 ENCOURAGING CLASS PARTICIPATION THROUGH CREATIVE PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES As English Teachers, our work plays an important role in the development of our learners strategies. However, some of our students do not show much interest despite all our efforts. We need to make our classes more varied and creative as a means to keep our students motivated and always willing to learn. In this workshop, we will develop several activities which will provide you with an important battery of material and tips. WORKSHOP 2 ON THE WAY TO TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES Technology is all around us and we have to be up-to-date with all these changes. We will have the chance to see how technology becomes our 卒friend卒 in the classroom and how we can use it to make our classes more communicative and attractive to our digital- native students.
- 3. GABRIELA MARTINEZ BIODATA: Gabriela holds a diploma in Teaching English to Immigrants from St旦rstromsAmt in Denmark. She had the opportunity to teach children from Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She was an Academic Coordinator at Centro Cultural PeruanoNorteamericano; where she was in charge of the English for Kids Program. She has taught English for eighteen years at different institutes and schools. She is currently working as an Academic Consultant for Pearson. WORKSHOP 1 BEYOND FOUR SKILLS CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING Skills development certainly is an important factor when teaching a second language, however a globalized world demands going beyond language which will be used for social purposes. It also demands being prepared for dealing with academic content in competitive academic settings. In this context, it is vital to help students develop skills which will help them succeed in life, such as, critical thinking skills, transferable academic skills, and others. How can we achieve this? By incorporating content in the language classroom. In this workshop we will explore how both, Content and Language can be integrated for effective learning. WORKSHOP 2 THE ARTS AND ENGLISH TEACHING TO YOUNG LEARNERS Teaching English to young learners varies in many ways from teaching adults. One of the major differences arises from the course design and the kind of tasks and activities covered in the books. More varieties of activities are needed to be used in the classroom in order to teach young learners and make the lesson an attractive process as well as making learning effective by making use of various intelligences and engaging different competences in the process of learning. In this workshop we will analyze the benefits of incorporating the arts in the English classroom and come out with some great ideas to use with young learners. JEANNE LUZ ORTIZ BIODATA: Jeanne Ortiz is currently following an MA in education. She is also a licentiate in English Language Teaching and has also done innovative projects regarding education at various levels to university courses. She is currently involved in course design, material design too. She has been teaching for over 20 years, she has many years experience working from pre-kids, with adults, secondary students, and working as a teacher trainer holding supervision and coordination positions in very prestigious language schools.She continues to teach regularly and particularly enjoys working with low level students. She is currently working as the Academic & technology coordinator for Macmillan Publishers in Peru. WORKSHOP 1 LOTS vs. HOTS This session will help teachers to foster higher and lower order thinking skills among students of all ages which are considered an important educational goal. Teachers often believe that this important goal is not intended for all students. A common belief among teachers is that tasks that require higher or lower order thinking skills are appropriate only for high-achieving students, whereas low- achieving students, who can barely master the basic facts, are unable to deal with such tasks. WORKSHOP 2 CRITICAL THINKING Critical thinking is not matter of accumulating information, but the ability to think clearly and rationally.
- 4. Sometimes it is believed that the thinking of our students will remain "invisible" to them. However, it is not true. It is important to provide them of vital vocabulary, teach them how to ask good questions and think critically, in order to continue the advancement of the several fields we are teaching. Critical thinking involves questioning, organizing, deciding, helping our students make decisions by analyzing and evaluating facts. Why not to work then, on improving our own critical thinking skills and let our students make more intelligent decisions and be aware of them? Let卒s all of us discover how to do. RICARDO BENAVIDES SCOTT BIODATA: Ricardo Benavides holds a B.A in Latin American Studies from California State University, Hayward, and a Graduate Certificate in TESOL from San Jose State University in California. He worked in California for several years as an ESL instructor and bilingual education specialist at different institutions, both private and public. In Peru, Ricardo taught English at the Instituto de Idiomas de la Pontificia Universidad Cat坦licadel Per炭 (INIPUC) from 1995-1998, and from 2001-2006. He has also worked as a teacher of History at Markham College, teaching IGCSE and general History courses. Since 2006, he has been employed by Oxford University Press as an ELT educational consultant, carrying out, among other duties, product training sessions, workshops, and plenaries both in Peru and abroad. WORKSHOP 1 READING CIRCLES: A MAGIC FORMULA FOR NATURAL, ENJOYABLE DISCUSSIONS IN ENGLISH The development of fluency in both reading and speaking is at the heart of every teachers concern when it comes to working with readers. Certainly, teaching reading cannot be thought of in terms that are at odds with the broader aims of the Communicative Approach. The aims are the same: to develop student autonomy, to prioritize meaning, to empower learners and to make them the protagonists of the learning process. In this 90-minute workshop we will look at a unique proposal for engaging students in a reading and speaking activity based on the Oxford Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles. The activity provides a magic formula for natural, enjoyable discussions in English, giving teachers a practical solution for the issues of how to use reading as an integral component of the communicative classroom. Organized by: Dr. MajidSafadaranMosazadeh External advisor for Southern Copper APEC schools