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Global Tendencies – Local Dependencies . Vera Bobkova British Council - Moscow. You can find this presentation at . I. Ideas from IATEFL 2012 II. New Educational Standard for Primary Schools. pollev.com. What associations of EFL teachers do you know/belong to?. In groups or pairs: .
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Global Tendencies – Local Dependencies Vera Bobkova British Council - Moscow
I. Ideas from IATEFL 2012II. New Educational Standard for Primary Schools
What associations of EFL teachers do you know/belong to? In groups or pairs:
IATEFL - - International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language - IATEFL Conference 2012 — the 46th! http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/
IATEFL 2012 YLE exams are getting more popular. More books for preparation
IATEFL 2012 - 'Mighty Starters/Movers/Flyers' by Delta Publishinghttp://www.deltapublishing.co.uk/titles/young-learners/mighty-movers - Succeed in Cambridge YLE Practice Tests by Andrew Betsis ELT http://www.andrewbetsiselt.gr/Cambridge-exams.html
Crazy Animals And Other Activities for Teaching English to Young Learners — BC project. http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications/crazy-animals-other-activities-teaching-young-learners
IATEFL 2012 Collins 'Picture Dictionary for Young Learners'
IATEFL 2012 'Teaching Young Learners to Think' by H. Puchta & M. Williams (Helbling Languages) http://www.helblinglanguages.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=74&Itemid=362
IATEFL 2012 talks on YL (video available) - Teaching Young Learners to Think by Marion Williams. - British Council Signature Event: Global Primary ELT Issues. -Speak and Spell: Online phonics for Yls by Jo Hayes.
IATEFL 2012 talks on YL (video available) - Young learner writing and the storyline approach by Sharon Ahlquist. All can be found athttp://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/sessions
Where can you find a pdf version of 'Crazy Animals' book based on British Council research?
How can you find all those video sessions from IATEFL conference?
IATEFL 2012 An amazing resource! http://www.growstorygrow.com/
There are so many nice things available • But we have to fit our teaching into the New State Educational Standard
What are the new trends in teaching young learners where you teach? In groups or pairs:
What is the New Educational Standard about? What requirements of the Standard do you fill you fullfill? In groups or pairs:
2. Study Skills • Some kind of 'How To' section; • Shift from knowledge-based to competence-based approach.
3. ICT skills like: • Ten finger typing method; • Electronic and online dictionaries; • Kids create rather than use; • School VLE.
4. Fostering Patriotism: • Know more about local culture; • Compare it with other cultures.
Possible websites: http://www.whattimeisit.com/convert.htm - time converter http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ - see what time it is in other cities
+wiki or a blog OR http://voki.com/
+ http://tinyurl.com/7zw3sn3 Tell what you did last week & add your name, please
If the task is to make a poster for a project, how can we make it more 'tech-savvy'?
References : http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2012/sessions
Thanks for Your Attention! Vera Bobkova bobkovavera@gmail.com