WORKSHOPS Septembre 2015 - Madrid Comunidad Bilingüe

WORKSHOPS Septembre 2015
1. ASSESSMENT LITERACY
DESTINATARIOS:
Profesorado de Educación Primaria y Secundaria de cualquier especialidad.
La sesión se llevará a cabo en lengua inglesa, nivel mínimo de competencia lingüística B1.
LUGAR: CRIF Las Acacias. C/General Ricardos, 179 Metro: Oporto (L5, L6), Vista Alegre (L5)
CALENDARIO:
Maestros de Educación Primaria: MARTES 22 de septiembre.. Horario: 16:30 - 20:00
Profesores de Educación Secundaria: MIÉRCOLES 23 de septiembre. Horario: 16:30 - 20:00
INSCRIPCIONES: para solicitar plaza pulse en el siguiente enlace
https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/Comunidad_de_Madrid_1
CONTENIDO:
Teachers are increasingly expected to demonstrate an understanding of testing as part of the
process of monitoring their students. Teachers often have to write or choose tests for their students,
whether as part of the end of year summation or throughout the year to monitor progress. But what
makes a good test? And how do we know that a particular test is appropriate for a particular group
of students and what we want to know about them?
In this workshop we will look at what skills and abilities we are trying to assess when we test
someone, and then go on to consider practical examples of what makes a good test task. We will
consider validity, reliability and impact and how to understand and prioritise them for the groups we
need to test. We will look at what features are important in different types of testing - high stakes,
summative, formative etc. - and discuss some of the ethics behind testing. This will include
considering the teacher’s responsibility to their students and how different types of tests drive
different classroom practices. We will move on to evaluate some familiar test items such as multiple
choice, as well as productive tasks in speaking and writing, and look at the ‘rules’ for test writing.
Participants will also have the opportunity to consider writing their own test items.
PONENTE:
Mark Griffiths is a professional linguist, researcher, author and language consultant. He has written
English language coursebooks for Oxford University Press and published research articles in linguistics
and language testing journals. For the last 15 years, Mark has also worked as a professional examiner
and teacher trainer for Trinity College London. He has examined and trained teachers around the world
from Argentina to Thailand, and has written and delivered a wide range of training workshops with
advice, suggestions and practical solutions for teachers on the subject of exams, including how to
choose the right one, how to write your own tests and how best to train students to pass them.
2. DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID? / CAN YOU SAY WHAT YOU HEARD?
DESTINATARIOS:
Profesorado de Educación Primaria y Secundaria de cualquier especialidad.
La sesión se llevará a cabo en lengua inglesa, nivel mínimo de competencia lingüística B1.
LUGAR: CRIF Las Acacias. C/General Ricardos, 179 Metro: Oporto (L5, L6), Vista Alegre (L5)
CALENDARIO:
Maestros de Educación Primaria: MIÉRCOLES 23 de septiembre.. Horario: 16:30 - 20:00
Profesores de Educación Secundaria: MARTES 22 de septiembre. Horario: 16:30 - 20:00
INSCRIPCIONES: para solicitar plaza pulse en el siguiente enlace
https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/Comunidad_de_Madrid_1
CONTENIDO:
Good listening skills are vital – students who find listening difficult usually have problems with
pronunciation and speaking, too. In this session we'll look briefly at what is happening when students
listen to English. Next we will look at ways we can help students to improve their listening skills, in
terms of both interactive as well as independent listening. We'll work with listening activities from
course books, with activities where no course book is required.
We all need ideas because of the demands placed on us by teaching English, and especially by
the teaching of English pronunciation. In this workshop session we're going to explore a host of
practical ideas, tips and strategies for teaching the pronunciation of English, including imitation,
demonstration, explanation and association.
PONENTE:
Robin Walker is a freelance teacher, teacher educator, materials writer, and ELT consultant.
He holds a Trinity College Licentiate Diploma in TEFL, and has been in ELT for over 30 years,
regularly collaborating today with Trinity College London, Oxford University Press, and MacMillan
Education. His main interests are teacher education, ESP, and pronunciation, a subject on which he
has published numerous articles, most recently in English Teaching Professional. In 2010 he
published Teaching the Pronunciation of English as a Lingua Franca, a title in the OUP Handbooks
for Language Teachers series.