instructions to participants
Welcome to the TroikaXperience 2020! We are thrilled to have you with us and here's some important information to make your experience more enjoyable:
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All events will be recorded and you will receive a link to enjoy them for 30 days once the TroikaXperience is over.
Certificates will be issued for both speakers and participants; you will receive yours shortly after the conference ;)
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Children’s and teenagers’ languages in ELT - Voices from south Africa
Hear the amazing stories about teaching children and teenagers in South Africa with an amazing team of international speakers sponsored by the IATEFL YLTSIG.
Tutors: Leketi Makalela, Nayr Ibrahim, Rethabile Mawela.
education management: principles & challenges
This courses focuses on:
- knowledge, skills, attitude and awareness: a framework for the development of coordinators, supervisors and school owners
- using key performance indicators as a managerial tool
- devising individual professional plans (for oneself and to the academic staff)
- dealing with teacher engagement (motivation, resistance and community-building)
Learn what's relevant when thinking about digital education. Topics in this course include: media and visual literacy, the use of frameworks to assess the use of technology, design for teaching and much more.
A new culture of learning - a reflective and practical approach to learner autonomy
A new culture of learning - a reflective and practical approach to learner autonomy"
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The nature of autonomy and the process of ‘autonomization’
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Autonomy, agency, and identity
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Making learner autonomy viable for teachers and students
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Learner autonomy in face-to-face and remote teaching before, during and after the pandemic
Six webinars with one theme: inclusive education. Topics include:
- Teaching the Hearing Impaired in an EFL Classroom;
- Teaching an autistic child in a bilingual environment;
- How to get all our students thinking;
- Older adults in ELT materials;
- Voices of a female white/non-white Brazilian Educator;
- Democratic Classroom;
Tutors: Gustavo Lima Barcellos, Luiz Eduardo, Sarah M Howell, Heloisa Duarte, Claudia Colla de Amorim, Aline Martins
Moderator: Akemi Iwasa
21st century skills
Felipe Machado - What you see is what you get: Critical thinking made visible.
Assessment
Tania de Chiaro - Self-evaluation: a step toward self-regulation.
Teaching skills
Talissa Borgo - I am known for my slogans.
Exams
Hulgo Freitas & Ricardo Barros - Boosting Learners’ Speaking Skills in Teaching for Exams.
Teaching adult students
Monique Barros - How does it affect our Adult learners course? Putting theory into practice - a classroom approach.
CLIL
Imaculada Parreira - Content and Language Integrated Teachers! - questions around the CLIL universe.
Intercultural awareness
Hugo Dart - Telecollaboration in Intercultural Contexts.
Teaching skills
Paula Oliveira - The Art of Planning a Lesson: how, when and why we must do it.
Teaching teens
Talita Peres - Affection through digital tools: paths to connect with teenage groups.
CPD
Amanda Lambert - Developing YOURSELF: The role of reflective practice in CPD.
Language skills
Eduardo Mazzeu - How to make listening activities more meaningful and exciting.
Lunch Break & Troikafezinho
Tim Gifford, from LearnJam: Designing effective learning: What we've discovered from applying our Learning Design Principles
Reaching and teaching teenagers
This course focuses on what active learning is, the developmental characteristics of teenagers and how active learning caters for them and using projects to promote active learning.
teaching (very) young learners
Six webinars, one topic: six fellow teachings share their experiences in teaching (very) young learners. Topics include: Using literature to develop social skills; story-based teaching
Engaging (V)YLs in the learning process through play; strategies to make online lessons fun and attractive to (V)YLs; strategies to help teachers cope with teaching (V)YLs remotely; techniques to introduce cultural elements to (V)YLs in online lessons.
Tutors: Carolina Dolinski Varaschin, Ana Clara Castilho, Miriam Oliveira, Bárbara Vanderlei, Danielle Tavares, Katherine Jara
Moderator: Cris Perone
Neuroscience 101 for Language Teachers
- Brain Basics: What parts of the brain do we use when we learn?
- Teaching a brain-friendly lesson: a guiding model for practice.
- Brain & emotions: What can prevent us from learning?
- Brain & 21st Century Skills: What skills are expected from teachers and students?
Remote teaching in the pandemic
Six webinars, one topic: follow six fellow teachers and their findings about teaching in the pandemic. Topics include: Significant use of technologies; how to integrate educational tools from the web into teaching to make lessons more engaging; adapting lesson plans, projects, and activities for remote teaching; experience gathered from the remote version of a full PBL English course; the role of teachers' emotions in the context of the pandemic; how teaching in the pandemic has driven us towards new practices that should be used to redesign students' social futures
Tutors: Vania Castro, Wallace Barboza, Claudia Boni, Marcia de Souza, Teresa Carvalho, Joyce Fettermann
Moderator: Paulo Dantas
Teaching adult students
Carol Romano - “English is not for me!” - Cultural stereotypes and limiting beliefs in the process of learning English.
CPD
Andreia Machado Castiglioni de Araújo - Professor Autor entre tramas e telas. (APRESENTAÇÃO EM PORTUGUÊS)
Language skills
Fernanda Borba - Using TV series to engage students and develop language skills.
Teaching skills
Denise Helena Monteiro - The importance of understanding communication as a way to help our youngsters interact with each other and with teachers in a better way.
Career move
Pedro Diniz - Playing to your strengths: teaching English as an outsider.
Storytelling
Isadora Costa - Once upon a time... Storytelling as an online tool for teaching.
Pronunciation
Victor Carreão - What is a pronunciation error? A sociolinguistic approach for pronunciation assessment.
Remote teaching
Yuri Fioravante - Canceled plans: considerations about distance learning from a teacher education course.
CLil
Erick Tristão - Teaching & Assessing Language in CLIL.
Intercultural awareness
Poliana Dantas - Beyond crafts and roleplays: Rethinking ELT through a dialogue with the Teaching of Arts.
Methods & Approaches
Leonardo Gomez - A Rationale for Task-Based Language Education.
Bilingual
Education in
Brazil:
lessons learned and
ways forward
