Motivating Learners for the Future - Madrid

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Hotel Intercontinental Paseo de la Castellana, 49 • 28046 Madrid

If you’re a teacher looking for inspiration, ideas for class, or the latest trends, you’ll find it all here in a relaxed, professional atmosphere.

Hotel Intercontinental Paseo de la Castellana, 49 • 28046 Madrid

PROGRAMME

PLENARY SESSION

Order! Order! Getting our students presenting and debating
Michael Brand
Being able to give a presentation or engage in constructive debate are essential skills, but ones that many people lack – possibly they didn’t get much practice or skills development in school. But all that is beginning to change, with projects such as Global Classrooms in Madrid evidence of this. This session will explain approaches and activities to get our students presenting and debating confidently and successfully.

TALK
Scaffolding in CLIL. Make your students BLOOM
Emma San José
This session will offer an approach to Bloom’s Taxonomy in a CLIL context. Considering CLIL as a content AND language integrated learning methodology, teachers quite often have to face some issues like the requirement for content teachers to help students acquire the language despite not being language teachers.
Bloom’s Taxonomy and its different levels in cognition offers support and turns out to have a very practical application in CLIL environments. It can be used for scaffolding content AND language, modelling, differentiation and also guides teachers in how to survive the challenge.

TALK
Reading and writing just got exciting!
Reading and writing are tested extensively in external and university entrance exams, but our lessons to develop these skills needn’t be dull! In this talk we’ll look at some activities that will get our students working collaboratively to get better at reading and writing – activities that will improve their skills and bring our lessons to life.

Michael Brand

Michael Brand

Michael Brand is a Teacher Trainer for Pearson. Having taught in England and
Spain, he has experience in the public, private and state-assisted sectors and has
taught young learners, teens and adults. He now spends his time training teachers
on all things ELT and his interests include collaborative learning, the creative use of
video and gamifying his classes.

Emma San José

Emma San José

Emma has been an English and Social Science teacher for many years and has combined it with teacher training and the development of bilingual and trilingual programs in schools. She is also a writer of CLIL materials and has done some research in the field of bilingualism. She is very interested in language acquisition and bilingual education and has done a master’s degree in Bilingualism and International education. She believes that language is a tool to express ideas so both language and content need to be developed in an educational context. Emma also loves challenging teenagers and getting them to think outside the box.

phill Brownsword

Phil Brownsword

Phil had an interest in travel from an early age, but it was later that this developed into an interest in languages and teaching, having previously worked in various areas.
Beginning his teaching career in China, he “caught the bug” and since then has worked in both the UK and Spain, where he has been based in Madrid for the last decade.
Phil has been working with Pearson as an ELT Consultant since 2016 and has enjoyed being able to develop his understanding of the industry and the differing needs of both teachers and students in varying geographical areas and learning environments.

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