MELTA

Managing conflict
2021-02-20 14:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin)
Many of us may find it challenging to deal with conflict proactively because we lack fundamental conflict management and resolution skills. Conflict is a natural part of our lives, and, probably, we learned the strategies we do have before the age of 7…
This workshop will offer a range of tools and useful skills to help you handle conflict more effectively, dealing with questions like: What is conflict? What are the common causes of conflict? How do we navigate the intersection of logic and emotion? How can we avoid argument traps?
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Wordwall workshop: Custom activities for your classroom
2021-02-20 10:00 - 12:00, 2021-02-06 10:00 - 12:00
Since language classes have been forced to move online, we’ve been confronted with so many tools claiming to be the one tool you need for your classroom or course. From Kahoot!, Miro, Padlet, Quizlet and Wordwall, how do we know which tool to use? Is it really worth paying for a subscription for any particular tool, and if so, which subscriptions are good investments?
This interactive two-part workshop is going to take a look at Wordwall. In the first session we are going to look at how Wordwall can be used both in online as well as face-to-face classes. This is important as we want to invest in something not just for the present situation, but also for a time when we return to classroom teaching. We are going to look at the types of activities you can create, go through the basics of Wordwall and create your account and possibly, first activity. In the follow-up session, you will have the opportunity to share your own Wordwall activities with the group, test other activities and give and receive feedback on these.
No extensive knowledge or experience is needed. All you need to bring is your enthusiasm to try something out and your willingness to share your experiences. It would help if you could familiarise yourself with the Wordwall website in advance. You do not have to attend both sessions but if you are new to Wordwall, do try to attend them both. We will be working with Zoom and you’ll get the best out of the workshop if you join the meeting on your laptop or computer.
Khanh-duc Kuttig was thrown into a very challenging teaching situation when her university went online in April 2020. From never having heard of Zoom, she zoomed her way through 15 weeks of the summer semester, bumbling at first but with much encouragement and enthusiasm from her students, she taught 8 classes a week entirely online. Now in her second semester of full online teaching, Khanh-duc is honing her digital skills and is actually enjoying being able to teach from home. She has taken numerous courses in online teaching and learning and believes that once you know the basics of any programme, software or platform, it can be a valuable teaching tool. Khanh-duc is also the events co-ordinator for ELTA-Rhine and TESOL’s 2021 Teacher of the Year.
To register, please send an e-mail to info@melta.de

Dogme in ELT
2021-02-13 14:00 - 17:00
Born from an article written by Scott Thornbury almost exactly 21 years ago which sparked the emergence of a global, grassroots collective counter-movement against both the prevailing waste and excess in ELT courseware and the lack of genuine conversation in classrooms, 2021 is – literally – the year in which Dogme ELT, also known as Teaching Unplugged, comes of age.
What better time, then, to look back a little at the roots of this … what, exactly? This movement, this mindset, this method? What better time to take stock of where we are now, in this radically disrupted point in the history of our profession, and ask ourselves how, despite – or perhaps precisely because of – current pressure to embrace technology and tools to “deliver learning”, an analog approach like Dogme ELT is more relevant today than ever.
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The Pilgrims Café
2021-02-13 14:00 - 16:00
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How to Learn from Communicative Activities
2021-02-13 09:30 - 12:30
The excitement generated by the arrival of the Communicative Approach all those years ago included attention to activities in which students had a communicative purpose, focused on content rather than language form, and encouraged students to use all and any language at their disposal. But how useful are such activities in reality? Do they genuinely help students to ‘get’ new language items or even practise previously encountered grammar and lexis? In this talk we will revisit the concept of communicative activities and try to see how to re-fashion them so that they are communicative learning activities.
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Resources & ideas for teaching English to children
2021-01-30 14:00 - 16:30
This event will provide a large variety of ideas & tips on how to teach English to young children, as well as an introduction to the Young Learners series and resources by Cambridge English and Cambridge University Press.
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Online workshop: Developing Resilience in our Personal and Professional Life
2021-01-30 10:30 - 13:30
From Klett Sprachen: In cooperation with MELTA we are delighted to invite you to our online workshop “Developing Resilience in our Personal and Professional Life” with Patricia de Griese, on Saturday, 30th January 2021, from 10:30 to 13:30. The workshop will take place via zoom.
Please sign up for the workshop by sending an email to: veranstaltungsservice@klett-sprachen.de
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