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About this event
This event will provide tools, ideas and inspiration to help you take charge of your professional development. The webinars will explore how to go beyond formal training and create collaborative networks with other teachers. You will also learn how to carry out your own action research and explore fun, game-based learning techniques to take your teaching skills to the next level.
About the sessions
Session 1: How can CPD be collaborative?
Speaker:
Rachel Öner
Time and date:
14.00–15.00 (UK time) 23 January 2025
Session information:
We'll start by looking at the vast range of professional development opportunities available to teachers nowadays. Then we will consider how colleagues and networks can help us solve our current challenges and grow as teachers. Finally, we will explore the value of action research in improving your teaching practice and the learning experience of your students. Join us to discuss and plan your CPD.
Session 2: Can you gamify professional growth?
Speaker:
Georgia Papamichailidou
Time and date:
15.15–16.15 (UK time) 23 January 2025
Session information:
Join this session to explore engaging tasks that not only refine your teaching skills but also add an element of fun to the process. We'll look at game-based learning techniques and hands-on activities designed to enhance focus and address specific teaching skills. Let's make our professional development journey enjoyable!
Session 3: Panel discussion: How can we develop as teachers?
Speakers:
Inga Mdivani, Hery Yanto The, Salome Zarkua
Time and date:
16.30–17.30 (UK time) 23 January 2025
Session information:
Three teachers from around the world show you different ways that they connect with other teachers, take part in action research and take charge of their professional development.
You can also watch the event live on our Facebook page. No registration is necessary to watch on Facebook.
About the speakers
Rachel Öner is a teacher and teacher educator based in the UK and has over 30 years of experience in ELT and ESOL. She is a trustee of NATECLA (National Association for Teaching English and other Community Languages to Adults). Rachel has a special interest in collaborative networks and action research that can enhance the professional development of the teacher.
Georgia Papamichailidou is an award-winning educational leader and teacher trainer who specializes in teacher training and mental health in educational contexts. She is also a member of the IATEFL digital committee helping with the design of online teacher training courses and volunteers at the IATEFL annual conference. She works in the UK.
Hery Yanto The is an experienced multilingual teacher who supports English and Chinese oral practice in an after-school programme in Pontianak, Indonesia. He'll talk about his own professional development journey.
Inga Mdivani is an experienced English teacher and foreign languages coordinator at a secondary school in Tiblisi, Georgia. She'll talk about her experience in an exploratory action research group that she joined online with other teachers around wider Europe.
Salome Zarkua is an EFL teacher based in Tsalenjikha, Georgia. She has been actively involved in an exploratory action research project with the British Council Georgia. She'll talk about mentoring.
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