17th Annual National IATEFL Ukraine Conference

LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER: DEVELOPING PROFESSIONALLY

13 – 14 January 2012, Kyiv

The National Annual IATEFL Ukraine Conference jointly organised by IATEFL Ukraine, British Council Ukraine and the University of Economics and Law KROK (Kyiv), with the support of Oxford University Press, and Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine is a professional get together of ELT professionals from around Ukraine and abroad to share, discuss, reflect on and develop their ideas and at the same time foster IATEFL Ukraine activities.

The invited key-note speakers from Great Britain and USA are going to present at the Conference plenary sessions and workshops. The format of the Conference will include facilitated themed sessions, interactive workshops and discussions. The conference programme will also provide networking opportunities as well as a chance for ELT professionals to get acquainted with the latest ELT publications and services at a large resources exhibition.

Speaker Proposals
The deadline for speaker proposals is 25 November 2011.
We invite proposals for the following types of presentations:

• Pecha Kucha
• Poster presentation
• Roundtable discussion
• Panel discussion
• Workshop
• How to …
• Talk

The conference programme
The selection of proposals is done by the Conference Selection Committee. The selection criteria aim to ensure that the conference programme includes a balanced representation of:

• first-time and established presenters
• a range of ELT topics and professional concerns
• a variety of geographical regions of Ukraine
• the ELT sectors, e.g., school, university, publisher
• different professional ELT associations and organisations
• experience of teaching in different contexts and levels of education
• alternative systems of teacher education and development.

Essential information to note

• The closing date for the receipt of Speaker Proposal Forms by IATEFL Ukraine is 25 November 2011.
• Any proposals received by IATEFL Ukraine after 25 November 2011 will be placed on a reserve list.
• IATEFL aims to inform participants whether their session has been accepted for inclusion in the programme by the middle of December. IATEFL reserves the right not to give reasons for non-inclusion in the programme.
• All presenters must be members of IATEFL Ukraine at the time of submitting their proposal and must register for the full two-day conference and pay the registration fee by 25 November 2011.

The Conference Selections
The Conference Selections will be published by the Conference. If you are interested, refer to the requirements in the Typing Conventions attachment. Please, submit your materials by e-mail as by 25 November 2011 to writesveta@gmail.com and sevazh@ukr.net

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE

Friday 13 January 2012

0845 – 1000

Registration

0900 – 1720

Room 312 Facilitator Oleg Nozhovnik

Book Exhibition

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Guest Plenary Speaker

Gerry McIntosh

Watching You Watching Me
Teacher development includes a variety of elements - from reading seemingly endless, abstract theory to writing assignments. This plenary will look at a selection of core elements of teacher development and analyses the results of research conducted to determine which activities TEACHERS find most beneficial. We will then observe what WE currently do and examine if there is common ground or whether we need to re-design our development pathways and if so, how?

Gerry McIntosh is a Teacher Trainer/Business Development Manager Wider Europe based at the British Council in Kyiv. Originally from Glasgow, he has a degree in Polish and a postgraduate degree in Russian.
Gerry is a Diploma qualified teacher and joined the British Council in Madrid in 1992 and later worked for the British Council in Barcelona as a teacher and project coordinator. He also worked for a period at Oxford University Press in Spain as an ELT Research Consultant where he gained extensive experience in teacher development, editing and publishing. He has given workshops at all the major ELT conferences in Spain, including TESOL, and gave over 200 workshops at local teacher training centres around Spain. Gerry is also a CELTA tutor and a DELTA local tutor.
Away from work, Gerry’s interests include Scottish Literature (he is trying to complete the thesis of a never-ending M Phil), watching football (especially Rangers FC, Atletico de Madrid and Dynamo Kyiv), listening to rock music and trying to learn Ukrainian.
Away from work, Gerrys interests include Scottish Literature (he is trying to complete the thesis of a never-ending M Phil), watching football (especially Rangers FC, Atletico de Madrid and Dynamo Kyiv), listening to rock music and trying to learn Ukrainian.

Benjamin Sell

De-Russify Your English: Explaining the common mistakes made by Russian and Ukrainian speakers
The majority of mistakes made by Russian and Ukrainian speakers when speaking English are easily correctable, although many of them result in a communication breakdown. This language awareness presentation highlights the most commonly encountered mistakes (across semantics, syntax and phonology) and offers teachers and learners alike an insight into why they happen and explanations as to how to correct them.

Benjamin Sell is a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge having specialised in linguistics and Slavonic languages. He has been working at International House Kiev for two years where he has developed an interest in the L1 transference mistakes common for native Russian speakers. His previous areas of study include the syntax of English gerund phrases and the historical development of Old Church Slavonic.

Vaughan Elliott

What makes a good exam
This talk will present the various stages that are involved in the production of effective language tests. It will unpack concepts including, for example, ‘validity’ and ‘impact’ making specific reference to the Cambridge ESOL range of exams. Attention will also be paid to how this affects teachers like ourselves in the classroom and the activities we ask our students to do. It will finish with a question and answer session where participants can find out more about Cambridge ESOL.

Speaking test preparation – less fear, more fun (workshop)
Most language exams our students take contain a spoken component. This is an experience some students find extremely daunting often with a negative impact on their performance. This workshop will present some practical ideas and activities which we can use to make sure our students give a good account of themselves when they take the plunge.

Vaughan Elliott is currently Senior Team Leader for Poland, Baltic States and Belarus for University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. He is responsible for the coordinating and monitoring of oral examiner training for all Cambridge ESOL exams. He is a regular speaker at conferences on teaching practice and exams.
In addition Vaughan has been running his own chain of language schools in and around the Gdansk area in Poland for the past 13 years. He still teaches and prepares students for Cambridge English First and Advanced every year.
Previously he worked for Bell Schools in Poland for 7 years as a teacher and director of studies where he completed his DELTA. He has also worked for Bell in England as a course director and director of studies for Bell Young Learners. He has also taught in Turkey and Slovakia.

Guest Speaker

Arkadiusz Jaworski

Everything you always wanted to know about exams, but were afraid to ask…
A certificate tells people a great deal about you and what you can do. Some certificates are recognised as proof of language abilities by employers, universities and government bodies around the world. It may seem that we already know everything about exams, especially the most popular ones, but is this really the case? The world which is surrounding us is constantly changing and so is the language and the way we use it. Exams reflect changes too.

Is there a universal exam? What is meant under ‘extended certification’? What does CBT stand for? How can you prove that a certificate is authentic? During this session we will try to answer these and other queries, we will dispel some myths. We will also look in more detail at the changes introduced to exams recently and their consequences for various stakeholders.

Arkadiusz Jaworski is a development Manager Central Europe at University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations. Cambridge ESOL develops the world’s most valuable range of English qualifications, recognised by over 12.500 institutions all over the world. Cambridge ESOL is part of Cambridge Assessment, a not-for-profit department of the University of Cambridge and Europe’s largest educational assessment organization. Arek graduated from English Philology at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland. He has over ten years of experience in the education sector and language certification. He has worked for Cambridge ESOL for five years, where he is in charge of business development and strategy in eight countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Arek is also a Cambridge ESOL.

Carol Haddaway

Encouraging Peer Observation
Formative peer observation can help teachers become better teachers and more knowledgeable professionals. It offers insight regarding the improvement of teaching and provides opportunities for teachers to see each other’s teaching styles and techniques and reflect on their own teaching. This ‘how to’ workshop will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of peer observation, provide guidelines for conducting effective peer observation, a lesson to observe and give feedback on, and observation instruments. Active audience participation is expected.

Carol Haddaway is a Senior English Language Fellow (ELF) in Ukraine where she conducts weekly Teacher Training Workshops and Youth Discussion Club conversations at the English Teaching Resource Center of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In addition, Carol has conducted outreach training at schools and universities outside of Kyiv and will continue to do so. Prior to coming to Ukraine, Carol served as a Sr. ELF in Damascus, Syria and has been an Instructor in the E-Teacher Scholarship program of the U.S. State Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She received her MA in TESOL at UMBC and MSc in Applied Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

Matthew Stubbs

Structuring Tasks for Mixed Ability Groups
All learners are different; they bring different skills, intelligences, abilities, strengths and weaknesses. Yet when learners of different levels of proficiency come together in a classroom it is often the more proficient learners who are focused upon, to the detriment of others. By introducing clearly structured and scaffolded tasks we can create conditions in which all students are challenged sufficiently - creating classrooms in which all students become ‘successful learners’. This workshop aims to demonstrate how this can be achieved.

Matthew Stubbs is currently a Full Time Teacher of English for the British Council in Kyiv. Prior to moving to Ukraine he worked for the British Council in Bahrain where he was actively involved in professional development networks, participating in seminars and giving workshops to Ministry of Education teachers. He also spent several years teaching for a range of clients and language institutes in the Czech Republic. Alongside Teacher Training, his current professional interests are Second Language Literacy and English as a Lingua Franca, as well as all things classroom focused.
Matthew holds a Cambridge Diploma (DELTA), CELTA and CELTYL, and an Advanced Diploma in Applied Linguistics. He is currently studying for an M.Ed in Applied Linguistics.

SPEAKER PROPOSALS AND PARTICIPATION

Conference registration deadlines and fees

Speakers
The deadline for speaker proposals is 25 November 2011.
Registration fee - 150.00 UAH

Participants
The deadline for registration is 01 January 2012.

• Registration before 10 December 2011:

IATEFL Ukraine members - 160.00 UAH
Non-members - 300.00 UAH

• Registration after 10 December 2011:

IATEFL Ukraine members - 200.00 UAH
Non-members - 380.00 UAH

IATEFL Ukraine Membership fee
Individual Membership - 60.00 UAH
Institutional Membership (not more than 6 people) - 300.00 UAH

Registration fee covers a Conference Pack with the Conference Programme, Conference Selections, Certificate, 2 lunches and 2 coffee-breaks.

Meals
Two lunches and coffee breaks on 13 and 14 January 2012 will be provided. Extra meals are at the expense of participants.

Travel and accommodation
Travel and accommodation expenses will not be reimbursed. You will need to make your own travel arrangements to the venue. Please don’t forget to tick the appropriate box in your Speaker Proposal or Registration Form if you need a hotel reservation.

Send your Registration/Speaker Proposal Forms to IATEFL Ukraine:
writesveta@gmail.com and sevazh@ukr.net

We look forward to seeing you in Kyiv!

 

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