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| Sheelagh Deller | Plenary: De-stressing the teacher Workshop: De-stressing the learner |
Methodology |
| Simon Marshall | Plenary: Waking Up in the Classroom-Finding Presence and Attention Workshop: A Smouldering Volcano - the Language of Expression |
Teacher Development |
| John Mc Rae | Plenary: The Fifth Skill Workshop: Language Awareness, Text Awareness, Cultural Awareness |
Literature |
| Peter Medgyes | Plenary: Laughing Matters Workshop: Laughing Matters |
Methodology |
| Sarah Phillips | Plenary: Teaching Science in English, learning English in Science Workshop: CLIL in your Classroom |
Young Learners |
| Adrian Underhill | Plenary: The story of your teaching and learning Workshop: Spontaneous storytelling |
Meth/TD |
| Jim Wingate | Plenary: Three Million Years of Evolution Applied to Lessons Workshop: Psychic energies in the classroom |
TD/Young Learners |
| Tessa Woodward | Plenary: Enjoying personal and professional creativity Workshop: Enjoying personal and professional creativity |
Methodology |
Sheelagh Deller
Sheelagh Deller is a Pilgrims teacher, teacher trainer, trainer trainer and ELT author. She has worked with teachers in many parts of the world, covering wide ranges of experience, culture and teaching situations.
She has written a number of books both for language learners and for teachers. Her latest book, Using the Mother Tongue, with co-author Mario Rinvolucri, was published by Delta in December 2002. She is a Pilgrims teacher, teacher trainer, trainer trainer and ELT author.
Simon Marshall
Simon Marshall is a teacher/teacher trainer with 25 years of experience both within Great Britain and overseas. He does much of his work for Pilgrims and has also taught and trained for the British Council and International House. He is especially interested in teaching advanced learners and is currently completing a resource book "Advanced and Beyond" with Mario Rinvolucri and John Morgan.
Sarah Phillips
Sarah Phillips is a teacher, teacher trainier and author with a special interest in young learners and their teachers. She has given talks and workshops in Spain and Europe, and works with NILE on their training courses for Primary teachers. She is author of Young Learners and Drama with Children (OUP). At the moment she is working with Burlington Books in Spain: she is co-author of Kids and of the upper levels of Charlie's World.
John Mc Rae
John McRae has been Special Professor of Language in Literature Studies in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham since 1992, and, since 1999, Professeur Invité at the University of Avignon. He worked for the British Council for several years; in Italy he taught at several universities including the Magistero Faculty in Napoli from 1975 to 1992, and inaugurated the English Department of the new University of Basilicata in Potenza 1984-1991. He has been closely involved with the British Council Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature for many years, was its Chairman in 1998, and is Deputy Chairman of the British Council's Language in Literature and Culture committee. He holds Visiting Professor posts in China, Spain, and the USA, and has been Visiting Professor in Austria, Brazil, Malaysia, and Sweden.
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Peter Medgyes
Peter Medgyes works as Deputy State Secretary in the Hungarian Ministry of Education, responsible for international relations and the promotion of foreign language education. During his long teaching and academic career, he wrote numerous professional books and articles, including The Non-native Teacher (Basingstoke: Macmillan 1994; winner of the Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Competition), Changing Perspectives in Teacher Education (Oxford: Heinemann 1996; co-edited with Angi Malderez), The Language Teacher (Budapest: Corvina 1997), Criss Cross (Ismaning: Hueber Verlag 1998-99), and Laughing Matters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Adrian Underhill
Adrian works with educators in many countries on professional learning, humanistic education, interpersonal skills and storytelling in organisational development. He is consultant and coach in leadership development, and Training Consultant to the International Teacher Training Institute at Embassy CES in Hastings UK (which offers specialist courses to English Language teachers throughout the world). Adrian is editor of the Heinemann Teacher Development Series of handbooks for teachers and author of Sound Foundations: Living Phonology. Currently he is vice-president of the International Association for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) and founder of the IATEFL Teacher Development Group.
Jim Wingate
Jim Wingate works 6 hours a day, 5 days a week in the classroom with 60 pupils per hour, for 4 months each year. "This is great for trying out new ideas, testing new research, and creating techniques that work," Jim says. He also trains teachers in 6 countries each year. "From the teachers I train, I borrow lots of useful, practical ideas, and share them around the world. Come ready to share your ideas!" Jim's 35 books include Knowing Me Knowing You (publ. 2000), Getting Beginners to Talk, and How to be a Peace-full Teacher. Jim's experience as a professional actor in the USA and London's West End enables him to share techniques from the theatre. His experience studying biology and psychology enables him to share ideas from fields other than teaching. His sessions are always challenging and enjoyable.
Tessa Woodward
Tessa Woodward is a teacher, teacher trainer and the Professinal Development Co-ordinator for Hilderstone College, Broadstairs, Kent, England and thanks them for sponsoring her at this conference. She is also the editor of the Teacher Trainer Journal and the founder of the IATEFL SIG for teacher trainers/educators. Her latest book is Planning lessons and courses 2001 CUP and she is currently working on a revised version of Ways of training orginally published by Longman.
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