Start the new year by joining our online teacher training event on Saturday, 25th January 2025, from 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM (CET). This event is designed to provide valuable insights and practical strategies for teaching teenagers. Please remember you will need to sign up for each webinar separately.
The programme comprises three engaging webinars, delivered by Teresa Bestwick, teacher trainer and ELT author, Chris Roland, teacher trainer and methodology writer, and Silvie Rasikova, British Council Academic Coordinator and lifestage lead.
Why Attend?
- Explore strategies to build rapport with teens and create a classroom environment that fosters engagement and motivation.
- Gain practical insights and solutions to common classroom challenges.
- Engage directly with our speakers through the Q&A at the end of each session.
Speakers
1. Teresa Bestwick - From 9:30 to 10:30 am - Picture perfect: using images and imagery in the teen classroom
Teresa is a teacher, trainer and CPD junkie based in southern Spain. She is a tutor on Trinity Cert and DipTESOL courses and co-author of Teaching Teenagers from DELTA Publishing. In her free time, she likes early-morning walks to snap pictures of plants.
This hands-on session will provide a number of easy-to-adapt activities for the teen classroom, using images from our course materials, learners' own images and more. They are low-tech and low-prep, with some which can lead into writing activities and others which work as a five-minute filler.
2. Chris Roland - From 10:45 to 11:45 am - Teaching teens in the face of resistance
Chris is a teacher, trainer and methodology writer based in Seville. He has taught in mainstream schools, private language academies and for the British Council in Damascus and Barcelona. An ELT ‘ideas man’, he is well-known for his lively but practical sessions.
Chris is particularly interested in the dialogue between teachers and learners, language retention and the psychological terrain of teachers' working days. He is the author of Understanding Teenagers in the ELT Classroom (2018, Pavilion) and the forthcoming Taking Your Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level (2025, Pavilion). His YouTube channel is called Teaching Teenagers English.
3. Silvie Rasikova - From 12:00 to 13:00 pm - Skill Up for Success: Integrated 21st Century Skills for Teens
Silvie Rasikova is currently working at British Council Madrid Teaching Centre as an academic coordinator. Silvie started teaching in 2001 and has worked in Spain, the UK and the Czech Republic. She has completed the IH Young Learners’ Course and the DELTA. She also has a Master’s degree in Spanish and English language and literature. Silvie is particularly interested in how the element of play motivates students and stimulates their learning.
How can we better prepare our secondary students for the evolving demands of the 21st century workplace? In this session, we will explore the theory behind fostering essential 21st-century skills in the classroom, including growth and risky mindset, and embracing challenges, as well as practical classroom activities that align with the findings from my own research.