Grade Teacher Training

2021-03-29 11:15:00 ​ Do you ever recommend your students joining various speaking clubs to enhance their communication skills? Sure, you do. But what about teachers? Is there any particular benefit in teaching such classes for them?

In this article we've collected the reasons to join not only speaking but other kinds of extra classes. We've also summarized why conducting such a lesson is always a good idea for any teacher.

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2021-03-26 11:15:00 If you are looking for a set of simple, practical techniques that you can use to get learners to participate more actively and willingly in your lessons at a variety of age groups – watch the recording of the webinar with Christopher Reese

You'll also find out what are the key benefits of building engagement, and get a toolkit to deal with learners who just don’t seem to be interested. Open / Comment

2021-03-24 13:00:05 ​Effective assessment of learners' language skills is an ongoing process. It comprises:

explaining and presenting the standards to aim for
giving an informative feedback that helps students understand how to enhance
supporting the improvement in comparison with previous achievements
reviewing and reflecting on students' performance and progress
exploring techniques that will help learners understand the areas they need to improve

Are these guidelines the same for both adult students and children? Read this article to find out the best ways to assess young learners' language skills and progress. Open / Comment

2021-03-22 11:26:21 Grade Teacher Training pinned «​ Do you usually steer clear of idioms or do you have a bee in your bonnet about them? Whatever your answer is, our master class is for you. We are going to reflect on the appropriacy of teaching idioms and discuss how useful they could be for your students.…» Open / Comment

2021-03-22 11:15:03 ​ Do you usually steer clear of idioms or do you have a bee in your bonnet about them? Whatever your answer is, our master class is for you. We are going to reflect on the appropriacy of teaching idioms and discuss how useful they could be for your students.

Join our master class 'Helping those who are lost at sea with idioms' to have the opportunity to be in your students’ shoes and experience the whole procedure from the presentation to the production stage. You will learn some useful techniques of teaching different types of idioms from two experienced CELTA trainers.

Key takeaways:
identifying different types of idioms
planning and teaching a lesson on idioms
learning some useful practice activities

Thursday, March 25

16:00 — 17:00 (UTC+2)

Speakers:
Eleonora Pazyak – CELTA Trainer, CELT P/S Trainer
Helen Taranenko – CELTA, CAM, CELT-P/S Trainer

199 UAH

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2021-03-18 12:00:09 ​Hey teachers!

This is a quick reminder that our free webinar ‘I may have dyslexia….but dyslexia doesn’t have me’ is going live today at 17:00.

In this session, we will talk mainly about reading and writing. We will discuss reading programs which are really effective and popular in Europe and the USA. We will also talk about ADHD which often occurs with dyslexia.

Another important issue that dyslexic students struggle with is learning new vocabulary. We will look at different strategies which help students to remember new words.

Registration

Thursday, March 18

17:00–18:00

Olena Ukrainska – a certified teacher and the author of an English programme for dyslexic children.

Free

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2021-03-17 11:15:01 ​ Hi there!

We invite all English teachers to a free webinar organized by Grade Education Centre and Osvitoria – 'From knowledge to new skills'.

Have you noticed that the educational practice focus has somewhat shifted recently? Previously, it was mainly about sharing the knowledge, and now – about helping students develop a set of skills to obtain the necessary information.

Great teachers try to help their students develop communicative competence, emotional intelligence, decision-making abilities, as well as other important and useful skills.

In this webinar, you will learn how to implement everything that teachers want to give their students in the learning process.

Today, March 17

17:00

Kateryna Protsenko – Director of teacher training
CELTA, Delta, CELT-P / S trainer

Free

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2021-03-15 19:38:27 ​ Reading a book in English may seem a tedious task, not only for beginners, but for intermediate students as well. Fiction is usually full of complicated grammar structures and sophisticated vocabulary. It can discourage students and even turn a lesson with a favourite teacher into a bitter pill. However, our students still need to hone their reading skills and a solution comes in the form of graded readers!

Learners who use graded readers improve faster than those who don’t. What's more, it not only improves their reading, but also enriches vocabulary and language mastery in general.

Read our blog to find the keys to make graded readers even more useful for your students. Open / Comment

2021-03-12 19:04:25 ​ I may have dyslexia….but dyslexia doesn’t have me

All children learn and develop at their own pace. It’s common for them to find reading challenging at one point or another. But if learning to read becomes an ongoing struggle, it’s possible that a child has a learning disorder known as dyslexia. Dyslexia affects a child’s ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in language.

In this webinar, we will talk mainly about reading and writing. We will talk about reading programs which are really effective and popular in Europe and the USA. We will also talk about ADHD which often occurs with dyslexia.

For dyslexic students, any test or exam is always a stress. In our webinar, we’ll discuss the special requirements made by Cambridge English for dyslexic students. Do they have any extra time? Can they use the spellcheck? Can someone read the tasks for them? Any extra breaks? We will answer these questions and try to dispel the myth that English exam is impossible for dyslexic students.

Another important issue that dyslexic students struggle with is learning new vocabulary. We will look at different strategies which help students to remember new words.

Thursday, March 18

17:00–18:00

Olena Ukrainska – a certified teacher and the author of an English programme for dyslexic children.

Free

Join our webinar and let’s try to make our students’ life a bit easier! Open / Comment

2021-03-10 18:32:58 ​Taking on a new activity and sticking to it is easy, despite all the difficulties, when there is motivation. Why, then, our students sometimes lack motivation, and what can teachers do to inspire them to reach for the stars?

Read our new blog and find out:
how to build rapport;
how to motivate kids and teens;
how to work with students' parents;
how to use hobbies as powerful learning tools.

Examples, tips and tricks can be found in this article. Open / Comment