Meet the Authors Tour 2012

Tour around Spain (Canaries, Levante, C.Real, Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria). Here in 'La Mancha' with Vanessa Reilly.

The MAY issue of the Oxford Online Magazine is out. Please click HERE.
In this month's issue there are some excellent classroom management tips, interviews with the authors of Ace! and Splash! and lots more! Enjoy!

Oxford Online Primary Magazine - April Issue

The April issue of the Oxford Primary Magazine is online :) You'll find an interview with Vanessa Rielly, ideas on Saint George's Day by Judith Leary and some excellent classroom management tips by Weronika Salandyk. There are also ideas for bilingual education and much more! 

The April Issue can be found HERE! Enjoy!

Morocco March 2012

Wonderful visit to Casablanca, Rabat and Marrakesh to talk to teachers about bringing CLIL into the classroom. Teachers are BRILL and Mohamed is taking great care of me :)

On tour in Ukraine :)

Tour around Ukraine with Helen and her team :) Click here (Scribd) for a summary of the session on helping teens write.

Here's a video at a lovely school in Kiev with Elvira and her students :) 

3rd Oxford Seminar on Primary and Secondary Education: New Challenges, New Techniques

Conference in Palma de Mallorca organised by OUP and APABAL :) Great to see familiar faces and SUCH enthusiastic teachers :) This week Placido Bazo and I gave sessions, next week Vanessa Reilly, Montse Costafreda and Miriam D'Amico will give talks.
Handouts from the event will be available on the Oxford Blog following the event. Click here.
If you'd like to check out the Oxford online magazine, click here. 

Oxford Online Magazine - March 2012

The March issue of the Oxford online magazine is out :) You can find interview, classroom activities and news on events. Happy Spring!
MARCH ISSUE

APAC 2012

Wonderful day in Barcelona at another great event organised by the APAC team. The handout from my talk (Creating Curiosity in the Classroom) is available on the OUP blog: http://blogxfordspain.wordpress.com/
Thanks to everyone from OUP for their help and support and to the teachers for their enthusiasm in the session :) 
For more information on APAC visit: http://www.apac.es/elt-convention/

Oxford Magazine - February Issue

 

 This month's issue includes ideas on how to use SONGS and MUSIC in class, ideas for CARNIVAL and VALENTINE'S DAY, interivews, articles and a new GOING BILINGUAL section. Hope you enjoy it! 

Click here.

 February issue

Poland February 2012

Huge tour of eastern Poland with Ewa. Incredible polar cold front with highs of -16 and lows of about -30!!! Great groups, great teachers!

Oxford Magazine - January Issue

This month's issue of the Oxford Magazine is out....click here to find out more. Robert Quinn talks to us about reading in the classroom, Gwen and Rachael share their experiences as language teachers, Gloria explains the 'secret ingredient' to teaching very young learners and much, much more :)

Romania with Bell International

Eight day young learners course with Bell International. Many thanks to Carmen, Ana and the wonderful teachers :) The teachers from the course shared their ideas on teaching letters and sounds with us in the Oxford Magazine - click here :)

Day trip to Brasov, Bran Castle and Rasnov Fortress...wonderful :) Evenings out in Bucharest with Anda Ienda (Piranha Club, Actors' Bar) and great dinner with team from Fischer at Chez Marie..good times with good friends!

Happy Holidays!!!!

Happy Holidays and all the best for 2012!!!

OUP Days in Slovenia and Croatia - Dec 2011

Finally made it to this part of the world with no ash clouds, blizzards, or strikes. Loads of teachers signed up for the events and everything extremely well organised :) Great to finally meet Sue!

On the programme in Slovenia: Michael Swan, Edmund Dudley, Mario Maleta/Marina and I.
On the programme in Croatia: Michael Swan, Jennifer Bassett and I :) Handout on curiosity HERE

Some links that might be interesting:
Creative Vocabulary Teaching
Curiosity in the Classroom

Oxford Magazine - December Issue

In this issue you’ll find an interview with Patti Trimborn, a new recipe from Daniela Ayala, classroom ideas from Sandra Rodrigues on how to use puppets to create holiday stories alongside ideas for the holiday season and lots more!

Link to the magazine

II JORNADAS PEDAGOGICAS COLEGIO BUEN PASTOR DE SEVILLA

Conference organised by Buen Pastor School and Saint Mary's School in Seville. This is the second year that they organise this event and I was kindly invited to give a talk on the benefits of bilingual education.

You can find a summary of the session here

IX Jornades de Llengües Estrangeres, Salou

Handout from the talk "Creating Curiosity in the Classroom". Wonderful, energetic audience and extremely patient with all the technical (and non-technical) 'glitches' (remote control didn't work, unplugged the projector, couldn't get microphone headset to fit, I almost wiped out)....what a session!

Here are some links that might come in handy:
Brain Breaks
Ice breakers
Article: Curiosity: The Fuel for Development

Thanks to the organisers, Montse, JJ and the rest of the team!

More information on the event can be found on the Oxford Blog

Don't forget to check out the Oxford Primary Magazine :)

Granadilla - Reconstructing an abandoned village

This week I visited an amazing little village in Extremadura called Granadilla. Students from IES around Spain and reconstructing the village which was 'abandoned' years ago. Beautiful spot and interesting project. I talked to one of the teachers and one of the students and both said that the experience was very rewearding. For more information on the project CLICK

ACEIA Conference, Seville

Handout from the session 'Creating Curiosity in the Classroom' at the ACEIA Conference in Seville (sponsored by OUP). Thanks to the wonderful team from ACEIA for organising another incredible conference.

Oxford Primary Magazine

Visit the online Oxford Primary Magazine where you'll find articles, links, classroom ideas, interviews and much more. PLEASE participate and share your ideas :) If you have any suggestions please let me know!