Bucharest, Sept 2011

Attending the extremely well organised Fischer International National Conference for Language Teachers. Some top-notch speakers on the programme include Herbert Puchta, Jeremy Harmer, Gary Anderson, John Hughes, David Evans and Zoltan Rezmueves. Many thanks to Daniela and her team for an unforgettable experience.

Turkey - August 2011

Back in Turkey -- Ankara and Istanbul ...wonderful!
Some useful links:
Andrew Wright's Website (stories and articles)
CLIL Principles
Using stories in the classroom (using The Emperor's New Clothes)
Reading (Kate Ruttle)
Changing Views on Education (Ken Robinson - RSA Animate)

NEW! Nina Teacher Training Videos on You Tube

Watch videos of teacher training session and video from training trips :)

Nina Teacher Training on You Tube (click here)

Back to BRAZIL :)

Back in Brazil doing my 3rd year of Oxford Teacher's Academy with Mary Meyers and Edmund Dudley. Wonderful couple of days in Rio to get 'settled in' before the seminars..with my faithful Explorers, of course!

Some links that might be useful:
- Student Centered Learning
- Oral Correction
- Drama activities for class
- Tips for teachers: pronunciation

The Explorers in Poland

The lucky Explorers are fitting in very well in Wroclaw, Poland ;)

Storytelling Workshops in Poland

Wonderful whirlwind tour around Poland --- Gdansk, Warsaw, Krakow, Wroclaw and Poznan :)
Online stories from Suprise: Click HERE
Effective Storytelling
Some online stories
Story organisers from Education Oasis

On the road with the Explorers

Having a great time 'on the road' around Spain with the Explorers :)

Latvia and Bulgaria March 2011

Wonderful visits to Riga (with Jeremy Bowell) and Sofia (with Shaun Wilden and Olha Madylus)
:) Thanks to Dace, Milena and the OUP/Bookshop staff :) The explorers and I had a great time!

Creating Curiosity in the Classroom

INFORMATION ON EXPLORERS (OUP)

Curiousity in the Classroom

The Role of Curiosity in the Classroom

Explorers ...who are these little guys?

Find out more about the Explorers at OUP events in Spain this spring :)

Back to Poland!!

Promo video for trip back to Poland to promote Treetops :)

Happy New Year!

Here's hoping 2011 is a great year!

Trip to Kiev - November 2010

Conference in Kiev organised by Anna Morris (OUP). Talks by Gareth Davies, John Hughes...and me :) Great group!

CLIL Course in Motril

Many thanks to Edelvives and to Antonio Mendoza at CEIP Antonio Garvayo Dinelli for organising this event...and thanks to the teachers at the session for their active participation!

CLIL Methodology Course Miranda de Ebro

Great week on CLIL course in Miranda. Wonderful group and nice, sunny weather :)

A few links:
Graphic organisers
Assesssment in CLIL
CLIL Assessment
CLIL in the Basque Country
Evaluacion en Educacion Fisica (CLIL)

Language Identity Crisis

Blog entry on the Macmillan Dictionary Blog about the 'Language Identity Crisis' I suffer ;)

Cyprus 2010

Great trip to Cyprus. Nafi is a 'host with the most', beautiful weather, participative teachers :)
Some links:
- If the world were 100 people
- Activities for CLIL
- Clarifying CLIL
- Teaching Grammar to Young Learners

Aprender Ingles con Dancing English (Espasa)

Book filled with activities to go along with songs written by Dani Griffin. 15 songs with lyrics and full colour illustrations, activities for before, during and after the song (written by Dani and I). For more information click here.

Poland 2010

Teacher training tour around northern Poland. Beautiful cities, participative teachers and lots of kms :) Andrej and Ewa taking great care of me :)
Some ICT in class links:
I teach therefore you learn...or do you (thanks to Shaun Wilden for this)
Interactive Whiteboards (OUP)
Benefits of IWBs (OUP)
Smartboard, languaguage labs etc. (in Poland) from IRS
Article by Mark Prensky: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants