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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Tutors: Leketi Makalela, Nayr Ibrahim, Rethabile Mawela.
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.
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
Tutors: Gustavo Lima Barcellos, Luiz Eduardo, Sarah M Howell, Heloisa Duarte, Claudia Colla de Amorim, Aline Martins
Moderator: Akemi Iwasa
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;
Thays Ribeiro - Brain Matters - Five steps to a perfect class.
Mind, Brain, and Education
Carmem Foltran - Mind your own business: taking freelance teaching to the next level.
Teacherpreneurship
Marina Grilli - Reasons to use the L1 in the Foreign Language Classroom: from Plurilingualism to Translingualism.
Bilingual education
Isabel Badra - Why Professionalism and Etiquette are key to your career?
Professional etiquette
Vinicius Lemos - The Role of the Teacher in a Learner-Centered Approach.
Methods & Approaches
Marcio Pantoja - How to encourage more use of English in class?
Teaching skills
Heloisa Silva - Accessibility and Utilization of English for those on lower social classes.
Inclusive Education
Beatriz Machado - What are your stories? Storytelling for all ages.
Storytelling
Geysa Regina - Entrepreneur inside the classroom.
21st century skills
Sue Cons - Using Google Apps To Make Your Online Class More Interactive.
Teaching skills
Tim Gifford, from LearnJam: Designing effective learning: What we've discovered from applying our Learning Design Principles
Bruno Albuquerque, from Troika: an open room for networking.
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.
Tutors: Carolina Dolinski Varaschin, Ana Clara Castilho, Miriam Oliveira, Bárbara Vanderlei, Danielle Tavares, Katherine Jara
Moderator: Cris Perone
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.
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?
Tutors: Vania Castro, Wallace Barboza, Claudia Boni, Marcia de Souza, Teresa Carvalho, Joyce Fettermann
Moderator: Paulo Dantas
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
Greg Sotiropoulos, from MM Publications: Why do we teach the way we do?
Renata Borges, from Troika: an open room for networking.
Joyce Campos - Freelance teaching: free falling or falling free?
Teacherpreneurship
Henrique Zamboni - How to Build Effective Rapport with Teenage Students?
Teaching teens
Ana Paula Botelho & Thiago Hime - The Constant Learner
Mind, Brain, and Education
Kim Gibson - Educational Eclecticism.
Methods & Approaches
Alexandra Andrade - The long and not so winding road to C1 ADVANCED – Using TALL to enhance learning.
TALL
Renata Colombo - Mental health: breaking the silence to teach (and live) better.
Mental health
Patricia Kuttner - Demystifying the IELTS Test.
Exams
Carol Gonçalves - A journey through pronunciation and emotions; next stop: ˈmaɪnd.fəl ˈstuː.dənts
Pronunciation
André Hedlund - Engaging the Learner: A Mind, Brain, and Education Perspective.
Mind, Brain, and Education
Jorge Braga - Fostering high-order skills in the remote environment.
21st century skills
Leonardo Gomez - Text-based Teaching: Doing more with Less.
Language skills
