Modern Language Workshops
A Series of Workshops for Language Teachers
Facilitated by:
John Connor
| Overview This series of workshops is designed to address three major issues surrounding teaching and learning in modern languages, namely:
Workshop Facilitator
 A double graduate in Spanish and Latin American Studies, John Connor taught languages in inner city comprehensive schools in the North East of England and the Midlands, holding Head of Faculty posts before serving for 3 years as Adviser for Languages to a local authority. He has worked as a commissioning editor for a publishing house, and was a Team Inspector with OFSTED and an Assessor on the Advanced Skills Teacher programme for the Department for Education. He has also worked as a senior examiner with two major awarding bodies. Since 1997 he has worked freelance, writing teaching materials in French and Spanish at all levels, running training seminars for language teachers, directing in-house staff development and conducting teaching and learning quality audits for modern language departments and schools across the UK, the Channel Islands, Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. As a consultant he helped several local authorities develop their Primary Languages programmes, conducting methodology training and language up-skilling sessions for non-specialist primary teachers.
Agenda
It’s considered increasingly important in our global society because knowledge of another language helps learners to develop skills in their first language and also help them to develop skills to communicate ideas about science, arts and technologies to people around the world. In a CLIL classroom, the curricular subject and new language skills are taught together; and thinking and learning skills are integrated too. CLIL teachers can be subject teachers, language teachers or classroom assistants. Different teachers have different goals that can be achieved through a high degree of cooperation, among them: language teachers need to learn more about subject content and subject teachers need to learn about the language needed for their subjects. The workshop will start by exploring the core features of CLIL methodology, and then go to examine lesson planning, a framework for CLIL lessons, how to exploit texts, deal with vocabulary, check understanding, correct errors and develop presentation skills in a climate of constructive critique. Delegates will take from the workshop not only examples of ready-to-use resources, but also the skills and knowledge to begin framing a CLIL-based approach to their own lessons. Agenda
Workshop Fee RegularWorkshop 1 - Outstanding MFL Lessons (Feb.26, 2015) - Baht 8,500/USD 270 Workshop 2 - Teaching Languages to Young Learners (Feb.27, 2015) - Baht 8,500/USD 270 Workshop 3 - Content and Language Integrated Learning (Feb.28, 2015) - Baht 8,500/USD 270 Register for all three workshops = Baht 21,200/USD 673 Accommodation Refer to our communication page for this workshop: www.ksithailand.com/mflc To Register Step 1: Fill out the Workshop Reservation Form (below) by January 12, 2015.Step 2: Our office will send you/your coordinating staff the invoice upon receipt of the form. Step 3: You/your coordinating staff will submit the Payment Completion Form after making the payment Contact Information Workshop Coordinator: Mr. Navin Pawa E-mail: navin@ksithailand.com Phone (Thailand): 081 701 6843; 081 846 5770 (replace '0' with '66' for international calls) Click here to reserve a seat Send in your form by January 12, 2015
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