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The door has opened. You’re awake. Now, as always, you face reality. You’ve always been ready: you were born to do this! So see, hear, feel. Discover, apply and create. Experience enables us to understand and learn. Everything is experience. We are connected to the past, the present and the future. This is part of being human. Life is about living, taking risks, expressing ourselves. We are a product of our experiences. What we get we give. Experience enables us to understand, to be understood and to teach others. Experience is everything. So notice what is around you. Experience increases knowledge, and knowledge can be given meaning. Gain knowledge, create meaning: share your experience, build a legacy. Be an expert in your own way. Experience this day.
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Experience this day
You are invited to learn from the very best in English Language Teaching. The 2018 Cambridge Day edition will share experiences in 8 Brazilian cities. Bring your insights and get inspired to get better results inside and outside of the classroom.
Welcome to the 2017 Better Learning conference!
Belo Horizonte Curitiba Recife Salvador Fortaleza Goiânia Rio de Janeiro São Paulo Live Streaming
17th July 18th July 18th July 19th July 20th July 24th July 26th July 27th July 27th July
Fortaleza
Goiânia
São Paulo
FRIDAY, 27TH JULY
Rio de Janeiro
FRIDAY, 20TH JULY
Tuesday, 24th july
Thursday, 26th july
Tuesday, 17th july
Belo Horizonte
Curitiba
Salvador
Thursday, 19th july
Recife
MORNING
wednesday, 18th july
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Engagement is one of the most important challenges that teachers have identified in recent years as a factor in their students’ ability to master English. Engagement is challenging at all age levels, and this presentation focuses on strategies for adults / young adults (with some takeaways for younger learners as well). We examine ways to tap into students’ motivation, ways to choose engaging core and supplemental materials, and ways to provide your own engaging opportunities in the classroom.
Today’s young people are growing up into an ever-changing and unpredictable world. As educators we need to respond to this by equipping students with the skills required to face those challenges. One of the most important assets to be developed is critical thinking, as it enables people to assess new information, understand unexpected challenges, think ‘outside the box’, make decisions, solve problems and evaluate their own performance – in other words, to develop tools for lifelong learning. In this session, Herbert demonstrates how we can enrich young learners’ and teenagers’ language learning through developing 21st century skills sets.
Tuesday, 17th July Hotel Ouro Minas – view map Av. Cristiano Machado, 4001 – Ipiranga 08:30 – 12:00 Herbert Puchta Developing 21st century skills in English language teaching Glenn Mathes Let’s Get Engaged e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email Associação Heitor Rodrigues Graciano – Amigos de Minas
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Cambridge Assessment English strongly believes that good preparation for an international language exam depends on effective teacher support. In order to meet teachers’ expectations, the Cambridge English website – www.cambridgeenglish.org - has put together a range of materials which you can easily access, download and use with your students. You can choose online activities to use in class on an IWB, tablet or mobile phone. The online activities have been grouped according to CEFR levels to better meet the skills and language focus of the exam you are preparing your students for. You will also be introduced to our Digital Planet, through which you will easily access all the resources above. Enjoy!
Smartphones have allowed us to walk around with supercomputers in our pockets that connect us to others in ways we may have never previously imagined. However, we have not yet harassed the full potential of these devices, that many of our students have with them at all times, for learning English. We will examine the reasons and research behind using smartphones in English language learning. We will look at ways of using them inside and outside the classroom to further learning, and we will test several free apps for use inside and outside the classroom. Finally, we'll examine how to manage the introduction of these devices in the classroom to ensure that smartphones are a tool and not a distraction in your students' language learning.
Wednesday, 18th July Four Points – view map Av. Sete de Setembro, 4211 – Água Verde 08:30 – 12:00 Herbert Puchta Developing 21st century skills in English language teaching Glenn Mathes Computers in Our Pockets: Using Smartphones for Learning English Piri Szabo Tools for English Learning e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email Hospital Pequeno Príncipe
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In this talk we’ll first look at the increasingly important area of CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning), focusing on how it works and why it has become so popular. Then we’ll go on to look at the most important part of teaching young learners: the children themselves. By addressing the question of what interests young learners, and how we can incorporate these elements into the CLIL content of our lessons, we hope to indirectly provide some solutions to the common problems of pupil demotivation and restlessness. All of this will be reinforced with practical examples and hands-on activities which aim to satisfy different teaching and learning styles and which can be easily implemented in any primary classroom.
Many people learn English, but very often the truth is, they don’t speak English. Students frequently lack the confidence and ability to talk. The problem is amplified by the fact that learners judge their progress by their speaking ability. The result is a feeling of not progressing, and also a paradox: Due to lack of confidence, students are reluctant to participate in much-needed speaking activities. This session explores how to address this problem by creating a Safe Speaking Environment.
Wednesday, 18th July Hotel Gran Mercure Recife Boa Viagem – view map Av. Boa Viagem, 4070 – Boa Viagem 08:30 – 12:00 Mark Ibbotson The Unspoken Truth Michael Tomlinson Children Love Interesting Learning e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email Hospital Infantil Maria Lucinda
Thursday, 19th July Hotel Salvador Rio Vermelho – view map Rua Fonte do Boi, 215 – Rio Vermelho 08:30 – 12:00 Mark Ibbotson The Unspoken Truth Michael Tomlinson Children Love Interesting Learning e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email CETA - Creche Escola Beneficente Tia Alda
Friday, 20th July Hotel Gran Marquise – view map Av. Beira Mar, 3980 – Mucuripe 14:00 – 17:30 Mark Ibbotson The Unspoken Truth Michael Tomlinson Children Love Interesting Learning e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email Associação Peter Pan
One of the most challenging aspects of teaching young learners is holding their interest in the classroom. Children have limitless energy combined with an extremely limited attention span. Teachers have to juggle with these factors to try to avoid boredom, restlessness and de-motivation. Activities that children traditionally find engaging can be used as effective and dynamic teaching tools that will encourage them to use language and work hard without being conscious of it. By putting them into a meaningful context, we will see how diverse disciplines of language-learning can be taught with an amusing and child-friendly approach, thus making them more memorable for the young learner.
Up-to-date materials provide plentiful support for learners, especially teenagers, in 21st century skills: things such as critical thinking, focusing on values and life skills. But this provision is boosted if teachers are lexically-minded, and if materials support the teacher by covering a range of lexical components. This talk looks at how teachers and materials can work together to produce real progress for learners.
Tuesday, 24th July Hilton Garden Inn Goiânia – view map Rua 22, 122 – Setor Oeste 14:00 – 17:30 Jeff Stranks Think Lexically Michael Tomlinson Box of Tricks e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email Associação Servos de Deus
Cambridge Assessment English strongly believes that good preparation for an international language exam depends on effective teacher support. In order to meet teachers’ expectations, the Cambridge English website – cambridgeenglish.org - has put together a range of materials which you can easily access, download and use with your students. You can choose online activities to use in class on an IWB, tablet or mobile phone. The online activities have been grouped according to CEFR levels to better meet the skills and language focus of the exam you are preparing your students for. You will also be introduced to our Digital Planet, through which you will easily access all the resources above. Enjoy!
Tuesday, 26th July Windsor Guanabara Hotel – view map Av. Presidente Vargas, 392 – Centro 14:00 – 17:30 Mark Ibbotson The Unspoken Truth Michael Tomlinson Box of Tricks Roberta Lima Tools for English Learning e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email Casa Maria de Magdala
Teacher’s Day is widely celebrated on social media sites and the teacher is usually referred to as a super hero/heroine. Super heroes’ logos with the motto ‘I teach. What’s your super power’ have become very popular. Using the TED-Ed video “What makes a Hero?” as a starting point, teachers will consider the question ‘What is your super power?’. This is followed by a few practical classroom tasks, which aim to maximise the learner’s voice in the classroom as well as to illustrate how simple actions can have a very positive effect on the learners. This talk ends with a reference to the video above and invites teachers to try, adapt, add, vary and experiment on an everyday basis to meet the expectations of our learners’ ever changing reality.
Friday, 27th July Fecomércio São Paulo – view map R. Dr. Plínio Barreto, 285 – Bela Vista 08:30 – 17:00 Mark Ibbotson The Unspoken Truth Michael Tomlinson Children Love Interesting Learning Jeff Stranks Think lexically Alberto Costa Spice it up with your super powers! e-Certificates of attendance will be issued to the participants by email Grupo Sol
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Alberto Costa
Alberto Costa, Senior Assessment Manager Americas for Cambridge Assessment English, holds the Cambridge RSA Diploma for Overseas Teachers of English (DOTE) and has a specialization in teacher training (PRINSELT) from the College of St. Mark & St. John in Plymouth, UK. He has worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and academic consultant for 30 years, having also worked as a Cambridge English Speaking Examiner and course tutor for CELTA, ICELT and DELTA.
Jeff Stranks
Jeff Stranks (BA, M.Phil. Linguistics) has worked in ELT for over 40 years. He was Senior Tutor in ELT at Bell College Saffron Walden from 1981 to 1991, and then worked in Rio de Janeiro as a trainer and academic coordinator until 2001. He is currently a freelance trainer and materials writer based in Brasília. He has, amongst other publications, co-authored the series English in Mind and Think! (CUP, with Herbert Puchta and Peter Lewis-Jones) and Empower (CUP). He has recently served on the National Board of Braz-Tesol and is currently on its Advisory Council.
Herbert Puchta
Dr Herbert Puchta is a professional teacher trainer and writer of course books and resource books. He has been a plenary speaker at numerous international conferences and has conducted workshops and given seminars in more than 50 countries. For almost three decades, he has carried out research into the practical application of findings from cognitive psychology and brain research to the teaching of English as a foreign language. Herbert was also President of IATEFL (the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language). His latest course books are Empower (for adults and young adults), Super Safari (for pre-school children) and Think (for teenagers).
Michael Tomlinson
Piri Szabo has worked for Cambridge Assessment English for about four years, initially as the Country Head for Brazil, and more recently since February 2017, as the Commercial Head for the Americas region. Piri has 33 years of experience in English language teaching having had various different positions over this time. Piri had standout roles as an English teacher at language institutes, schools and universities. Among other duties, she has worked as an academic director, executive manager, speaking examiner for Cambridge English, CELTA tutor, solutions manager and bilingual program designer. Before joining Cambridge English, Piri was working as Head of Products for Pearson Brazil, where she had also been the academic manager overseeing the teacher development and training team in Brazil and in other countries in Latin America.
Piri Szabo
Roberta Lima, Business Development Manager for Cambridge Assessment English, holds a Bachelor’s Degree from UFF (Universidade Federal Fluminense). In The USA, she studied at San Diego State University and holds a TEFL/TESL Seminar Certificate. Roberta is also a Cambridge English: Proficiency holder and has a Certificate of Proficiency in English from The University of Michigan. She got band four in the three main modules of TKT (Teacher Knowledge Test). She worked as an English Teacher for nine years. As an Educational Consultant she trained and helped many English teachers to make better use of their material and lectured in workshops across Brazil.
Roberta Lima
At school, Mark Ibbotson was told he had a talent for writing, so he used his imagination to plot a novel career path. He studied engineering, became a construction manager, retrained as an English teacher, moved to France, worked as a business English trainer, then finally became an ELT author.
Mark Ibbotson
Glenn Mathes
Glenn Mathes has been a teacher, teacher trainer, program coordinator, writer, and editor. He is currently a publisher for Cambridge University Press based in the New York City office. He is responsible for publishing the courses Interchange, Passages, and Four Corners.
Michael Tomlinson has been teaching English since 1989. He has worked in the UK, Turkey, Spain and Sweden, with students ranging from children to adults and from beginner to proficiency level. He is currently a teacher at Star English, Murcia. He has also led numerous teacher training talks and workshops in Europe, South America and Asia. His publications include six Primary Box titles in the Cambridge Copy Collection and the seven level Primary course Kid’s Box, all co-authored with Caroline Nixon.
Important notes
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Experience is everything.
· The event starts on time. · Remind yourself to bring 1kg of non-perishable food such as rice, beans, pasta, and powdered milk to be donated to a local charity. · Reception starts 30 minutes prior the scheduled time. · In São Paulo, reception starts 60 minutes prior the scheduled time. · Places not taken will be allocated to teachers on the waiting list. · E-certificates of attendance will be issued by e-mail to all the participants in 7 days after the event. · Live Streaming: e-Certificates of attendance will be issued by email only to the participants who watch minimum 75% of the talks · Parking not included.
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Our Better Learning conference attendance is by invite only.
You should now have all your flight information, if this is not the case, then please do get in touch with us. All of our guests will be greeted at the airport, you should receive details via email over your airport transfers two weeks before the conference start date. Once exiting arrivals at your London airport (after clearing immigration and collecting luggage) a representative will be waiting to collect you, they will be easily identifiable, as they will have one of our Better Learning Conference and Cambridge University Press signs, they will then drive you straight to Churchill College in Cambridge. All of our guests are staying at the Churchill College and this is where the conference is hosted. Is one of the prettiest Cambridge University Colleges and set in spacious wooded grounds, just outside of the Cambridge city centre. There are local shops, restaurants and cafes close by for convenience. During your spare time, outside of the conference programme, you may wish to explore the historic city centre and we will be happy to advise the best ways of doing this. Look at the map › All of our guests are invited to attend our formal dinner at Churchill College. Dinner will be served at 19:00. Dress code is smart/formal, but no need for black tie! On Tuesday we will be finishing the day with drinks and canapés, but this will be a free evening for guests to spend how they wish. After lunch we have arranged to take our guests on a guided punting tour on the river Cam, to see the famous sights of Cambridge. There will also be some free time for guests to explore Cambridge themselves too (please note comfortable shoes are advised).
Accommodation
Formal Dinner Monday 3rd July
Wednesday 5th July
Tuesday 4th July
Churchill College
Arriving at the Conference
Experience increases knowledge, and knowledge can be given meaning.
Gain knowledge, create meaning:
share your experience, build a legacy.
Be an expert in your own way.
Experience this day.
We are a product of our experiences. What we get we give. Experience enables us to understand, to be understood and to teach others. Experience is Everything. So notice what is around you.
expressing ourselves.
taking risks,
Life is about living,
feel
hear
and create
apply
discover
So see
Experience enables us to understand and learn. Everything is experience.
We are connected to the past, the present and the future. This is part of being human.
Now, as always, you face reality. You’ve always been ready: you were born to do this!
The door has opened. You’re awake.
Friday, 27th July Cambridge Brazil youtube.com/CAMBRIDGEBRAZIL 08:30 – 17:00 Mark Ibbotson The Unspoken Truth Michael Tomlinson Children Love Interesting Learning Jeff Stranks Think lexically Alberto Costa Spice it up with your super powers! e-Certificates of attendance will be issued by email only to the participants who watch minimum 75% of the talks
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