ISTEK International Conference 2013

ISTEK ELT 2013
Incredible event organised by Burcu and her team :)

NEW FACEBOOK PAGE FOR NINA :) 

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Talks in Presov, Slovakia

A whirlwind trip to Presov, Slovakia  (via Prague, Czech Republic) where I gave a couple of sessions at the Macmillan ELT event. Wonderful to see friends and colleagues again...and fantastic audiences!

TESOL Spain 2013

Another great TESOL-Spain Conference in Seville. Thanks to the organisers!! Great to see Miss P, Cristina and the gang  and loved John's Theatre of the Mind show :) See you next year!

FECEI 2013

Wonderful Saturday conference in Madrid hosted by FECEI. The organisation kindly asked me to do the plenary session. I chose the topic 'What Makes you Itch' based on a video narrated by Alan Watts and also based on recent home renovations! What the video that inspirted the session here.


Better to have a short life full of things you like you doing, then a long life you hate.

 

Rollerblading in Seville the day before the conference

LINKS TO ARTICLE IN OXFORD MAGAZINE ON TEACHER BURNOUT

February Blues: Beating Teacher Burnout

Upcoming Spring Conferences in Spain 

Oxford Magazine - February Issue

The February issue of the Oxford Magazine is online! Ideas for Carnival, storytelling, class blogs, bilingual classes and much more! Take a peek!!

Kicking off the new year with teacher training courses

Hijas de Caridad - Jerez 

CLIL Course in Valladolid

Great start to the year with new courses and excellent, lively participants :)

ACEIA 2012

Another wonderful ACEIA conference :) Congratulations to the organisers! Great to catch up with everyone and fantastic audience for my session on writing! Handouts from my talk (and other sessions) available on the ACEIA website.

Oxford Primary Magazine and Article in Local Paper

Here's a link this this month's issue of the OXFORD PRE-PRIMARY and PRIMARY MAGAZINE. There are loads of classroom ideas, new stories and tips for class.

I visited a local school a couple of weeks ago to meet the kids and teachers and talk to them about writing Explorers. The visit made it to the local press ;)

Macenta: New Training Academy in Turkey

New training academy in Turkey where I'll be working as one of the training partners. Check out the website and spread the word :) Macenta Training Academy (click)
Many thanks to Burcu Akyol for this great opportunity!

 

Masters in Teaching Contents in English at the Universidad de Pablo Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

Máster en Docencia de Contenidos en Inglés
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Excerpt from Webinar in Spain

Excerpt from a webinar I did last spring for OUP Spain :) 

Watch a brief excerpt of our Oxford Webinar with Nina Lauder, one of the authors of Explorers. Nina helped us reflect on what values we teach our students in class, and how we can make use of stories, images and discussion to demonstrate good models of behavior. Teachers who use the textbook Explorers have the figures of the explorers who remind students of good manners and citizenship values.

Link

 

Oxford Pre-Primary and Primary Magazine - October Issue

The October issue of the Oxford Pre-Primary and Primary is online :) Halloween ideas, back to school suggestions, labels for class, links to articles, inteviews and much more! Section in Spanish for parents. Spread the word:
http://www.oxfordmagazine.es/

Senegal Sept 2012

Wonderful trip to Senegal!

Dubai and Ras al-Khaimah

Family and Friends training in Dubai and Ras al Khaimah. Many thanks to the wonderful OUP team and to Liz and the enthusiastic MAG teachers.

ISTEK in service training - Istanbul - Aug 2012

After a magnificent summer in Greece and Italy I kicked off the school year doing three sessions (Starting Off Well; Writing and Real World) at the ISTEK in house training run by Burcu. It was good to meet Marisa in person and I had a fabulous dinner in Beskitas with Haluk and Hardy! Thanks everyone!

Slovakia 2012 - ELT Forum Conference

Here with at the ELT Forum Conference with Greta and Dana :) For more information on the event: /http://www.eltforum.sk/  

Lovely dinner with Andy Cowle and his daughter last night and looking forward to seeing Shaun Wilden later :) To make things even better, nice weather and Bratislava is beautiful!

The JUNE issue of the Oxford Online Magazine is out. Please click HERE.
In this month's issue there is information on how to include activities from the Olympics in class, advice for parents, activities for bilingual lessons and articles on what it takes to be a good teacher and how the bilingual brain works. Enjoy!

UPO Masters in Bilingual Education 2012-2013

New edition of the Masters in Bilingual Education at the Pablo Olavide University :) Spread the word!!
Click here for the PDF document about the event.

Getxo Linguae 2012

Wonderful day with Loli Iglesias and the organisers/participants in Getxo Linguae 2012. The topic this year was Project Work and CLIL....lots of interesting sessions and great to see teachers sharing their ideas and experiences! Congratulations to the team!