10 ways to apply Psychology in an EFL-classroom
with Olga Lisina
Coping with Anxiety
with Anna Zavalishina
Ideal teacher: choosing yourself is OK
with Alena Nikitina
December 4, 2022
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Moscow
Avia Plaza, Aviamotornaya street, 10, b.2., (the 4th floor)
Guest Speakers:
Olga Lisina
(a CELTA-certified English teacher and a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology)
Anna Zavalishina
(CELTA, IH VYL, CPE, MA in Counselling (University of Manchester) - in progress)
Alena Nikitina
(TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, EFL teacher, author and co-author of 3 textbooks, course designer)
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Moscow
Avia Plaza, Aviamotornaya street, 10, b.2., (the 4th floor)
Guest Speakers:
Olga Lisina
(a CELTA-certified English teacher and a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology)
Anna Zavalishina
(CELTA, IH VYL, CPE, MA in Counselling (University of Manchester) - in progress)
Alena Nikitina
(TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, EFL teacher, author and co-author of 3 textbooks, course designer)
About the Speakers
Olga Lisina
Olga Lisina is a CELTA-certified English teacher and a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology.
Anna Zavalishina
Anna Zavalishina is an EFL teacher with more than 14 years of experience. She specializes in teaching adults, both groups and individuals paying special attention to psychological aspects of teaching, i.e. reducing foreign language anxiety, and working with procrastination and perfectionism.
Anna leads the project «English Anonymous» for high-level learners, where some taboos and issues are discussed in a safe space with respectful listening and challenging the opinion, not the person.
Anna leads the project «English Anonymous» for high-level learners, where some taboos and issues are discussed in a safe space with respectful listening and challenging the opinion, not the person.
Alena Nikitina
Alena Nikitina is an EFL teacher with more than 20 years of experience (with 13 years at RUDN University, Moscow). She has been working as a freelance teacher for the last 2 years.
Alena is a TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, an author and co-author of 3 textbooks, a course designer, and a conference speaker (Meaningful Weekend 2021, #YarConf22).
She has conducted 8 online marathons on CPE writing.
Alena is a TKT 1-3, CLIL, CELTA, CPE holder, an author and co-author of 3 textbooks, a course designer, and a conference speaker (Meaningful Weekend 2021, #YarConf22).
She has conducted 8 online marathons on CPE writing.
About the Workshop
10 ways to apply Psychology in an EFL-classroom
We teach personalities and they’re all so different! In this session, we’ll talk about how knowledge of Psychology can help English teachers solve problems in the classroom. We’ll also illustrate these ideas with the cases from ELT-reality and have fun finding solutions. You’ll see there’s a lot more than Educational Psychology, traditionally included in the curriculum. As a result, you’ll have a mind map of different branches of Psychology and think about how to make your lessons more student-oriented.
Coping with Anxiety
Have you ever had students that couldn’t do their homework because of the good weather? Or because they were too upset? Too happy? Too tired? There’s always something, right?
In this session, we’ll talk about how our students’ emotions influence their learning behaviour and why procrastination goes hand in hand with perfectionism. We will also take a look at ways how to identify the level of foreign language anxiety and brainstorm some hands-on activities to create a safe space and positive learning experience for our students.
Ideal teacher: choosing yourself is OK
Modern ELT community fosters and actively promotes the image of a teacher who is supposed to be perfectly qualified, extensively experienced and flexible for any teaching context. It’s really difficult to be on a par with such an ideal figure, isn’t it? Yet, driven by the desire to be competitive and ‘good enough’ we sometimes go to immense lengths to comply with these at times unattainable requirements. Very often we forget, or don’t even try to understand our own true needs and aspirations. In this session, Alena Nikitina will present a simple tool with the help of which we will try to look inside ourselves to see what kind of teachers we really are and what is OK for US.
We teach personalities and they’re all so different! In this session, we’ll talk about how knowledge of Psychology can help English teachers solve problems in the classroom. We’ll also illustrate these ideas with the cases from ELT-reality and have fun finding solutions. You’ll see there’s a lot more than Educational Psychology, traditionally included in the curriculum. As a result, you’ll have a mind map of different branches of Psychology and think about how to make your lessons more student-oriented.
Coping with Anxiety
Have you ever had students that couldn’t do their homework because of the good weather? Or because they were too upset? Too happy? Too tired? There’s always something, right?
In this session, we’ll talk about how our students’ emotions influence their learning behaviour and why procrastination goes hand in hand with perfectionism. We will also take a look at ways how to identify the level of foreign language anxiety and brainstorm some hands-on activities to create a safe space and positive learning experience for our students.
Ideal teacher: choosing yourself is OK
Modern ELT community fosters and actively promotes the image of a teacher who is supposed to be perfectly qualified, extensively experienced and flexible for any teaching context. It’s really difficult to be on a par with such an ideal figure, isn’t it? Yet, driven by the desire to be competitive and ‘good enough’ we sometimes go to immense lengths to comply with these at times unattainable requirements. Very often we forget, or don’t even try to understand our own true needs and aspirations. In this session, Alena Nikitina will present a simple tool with the help of which we will try to look inside ourselves to see what kind of teachers we really are and what is OK for US.
