Join us at Fourth Educational Marathon for English Language Teachers 'Teacher's Voice 2022: Stand With Ukraine' to expand your network, strengthen our international ELT community.
This conference is overflowing with inspiration, innovation, and practical solutions to your teaching challenges right now. We do believe that it is time to step up and kill two birds with one stone: stand with Ukraine and learn more! This conference is completely FREE!
A CONFERENCE NOT TO BE MISSED...
Why attend?
Discover
Learn new trends and tools to optimise your teaching strategies
Champion
Support and promote effective techniques that work in our classrooms
Learn
Learn from Ukrainian ELT practitioners about how they have successfuly implemented the ideas they are going to share with you
Support
We know that many of you were thinking of any possible way to support Ukraine and Ukrainians as it is impossible to stay indifferent in this situation. Here’s your chance. We know you can’t skip it.
Join as a partner
You can contact us and join as an official partner of this conference by donating any sum of money before the conference. Your logo will be among the other partners who support Ukraine.
Contribute
Today, as the world inches closer to the precipice, we all are asking of ourselves and each other: What can we do? And what can we do now? We are sure that ESL/EFL teachers are ready to contribute for the tired, for the tempest-tost, for all Ukrainians yearning to breathe free. As soon as you register you will get the link to donate. Sum is entirely up to you. We are grateful for your support.
This is our 4th ELT Marathon Teacher’s Voice: Stand With Ukraine
We do believe that everyone can give. We’ve been inspired by the creativity and generosity of many different sector leaders. People from all over the world are trying to help by donating funds, offering free housing to refugees, transporting different kinds of equipment, food, clothes and other essentials.
After completing the registration, you will get the link you can use to donate any sum of money you can. There’s no minimum or maximum. We are grateful for any kind of support. It will allow us to transfer the funds to the Ukrainian army that fights valiantly to defend our homes, our students, our country, and our democratic aspirations.
All the Presenters are Ukrainian English language teachers who are willing to share their experience and expertise with you.
We’d like to invite you to join the marathon and participate actively. As soon as the marathon is over, you’ll get all the materials used during the live stream.
We’ve prepared amazing presentations for you to enjoy the marathon - only useful tips, techniques and ideas you can use the very next day!
Thank you for your generous contribution! We are thrilled to have your support. Through your donation we will be able to accomplish the main goal of this conference and become one step closer to our victory. You truly make the difference for us, and we are extremely grateful! Here's the list of organisations who have become our official partners by supporting out mission financially.
Those who'd like to join this list, feel free to click the button above and donate how much you can. There's no any concrete amount, it is your free choice. Thank you for standing with Ukraine.
Our official partners:
1.Ukrainian Football Club SOKIL: https://sfcsokil.com/ One of the most successful and stable football clubs in Kyiv region, Ukraine. After actively participating in six regional championships the 'yellow-and-blacks' won the Cup of Kyiv three times, the Supercup of Kyiv region - twice. Click their web page and learn more about the club. Thank you for standing with Ukraine.
2.Ukrainian Agency of Foreign Languages RUNA run by Natalia Diachuk. RUNA is an authorised Cambridge exam centre that was inspected by Cambridge English and meets its high standards. The agency is located in Lviv, Ukraine. RUNA agency is passionate about language courses and they have a long history of offering different language courses. There are online and offline coursese, daytime and evening courses. You can study intensively every day or at a slower pace if you would like to combine study with work. Thank you for standing with Ukraine.
3. Ukrainian A+ Language Studio run by Natalia Zachynska is located in Khmelnytskyi, the regional center of the Khmelnytskyi region. A+ is the language hub for all students who would like to learn English. A+ provides language courses, as well as learning resources and exam preparation classes. A+ Language Studio is an Official Cambridge Exam Preparation Centre. By joining A+ courses students appear in learning environment that helps develop their potentials as critical and autonomous learners by cultivating the latest teaching approaches. Thank you for standing with Ukraine.
4. INT - Georgian English Language and Training Centre. In Batumi Georgia, INT provides a variety of regular and tailored language training courses in an effort to cater for the diverse needs of students and graduates. Due to the demand for needs-based language, INT offers different flexible courses that not only suit the convenience of students but also are based on students' prior language proficiency that allows to achieve results faster and more effectively. On top of that, INT runs online/offline professional development courses for teachers who want to progress in their careers. Thank you for standing with Ukraine.
5. Slovenian NANA Prevajanje in izobrazevanje offers services in language teaching, translation and proofreading. It is localted in Slovenska Bistrica, a town south of Maribor in eastern Slovenia. The language school focuses on English and participants can choose from a range of activities: individual lessons, group courses, tutoring, preparation for international exams Cambridge, Aptis, IELTS, preparation for school-leaving exams, conversation classes, Business English, English for Special purposes and more. The age and language level of the participants expand from pre-school to adult learners, from beginners to very advanced students. NANA is also a preparation center for Cambridge English Qualifications and a Test Center for Aptis with the British Council. The school participates in different projects and is especially proud of its own Culture Sharing Project. Click the link and join.
6. Meet TTC: 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲. Teacher Training Centre Poltava Teacher Training Centre is a platform for English experts to share and develop skills. It is based in Poltava, a city located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine.⠀TTC organizes different online and offline events for teachers who need to stay up-to-dated in teaching and learning.⠀The main activities of the TTC:⠀•English for Teachers - acquire language proficiency and be confident⠀•One-day seminars and workshops - on the hottest topics⠀•Mini-trainings - upgrade qualification quickly and effectively⠀•International courses - the best out of the best: CELTA, TESOL, IHC and DELTA⠀•Personal methodological consultation - ready to help with any teaching issuesCourse follow up support - lesson observation, feedback, creating professional development plans⠀Thank you for standing with Ukraine.
7. Ukrainian Choice is an English Language School for those who would like to improve English and prepare themselves for exams. It is well known for its work in the field of language teaching and for its dedicated and professional stuff.. The courses are designed for different age level with high demands on quality and professionalism.⠀• Choice has well-qualified and experienced teachers who teach according students’ needs.⠀• The aim of the courses is to develop all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) with the main emphasis on spoken communication.⠀• Every course has its own course plan and the levels in our course plans correspond with the Common European Framework of reference for languages.⠀• The CEFR is also used to assess language ability and place our students.Click the active link and find more about Choice on Instagram.
8. Early Stage is the biggest chain of schools of English for kids and teens in Poland. This school year 42.000 students attend Early Stage courses. It is a great and inspiring community of teachers. Early Stage is a franchise system in which teachers become business partners and open their own Early Stage schools. Early Stage is willing to hire and support English teachers from Ukraine. It has just started its special recruitment programme. If you are interested in joining the programme as a teacher fill in the form: https://forms.gle/4J1gfxXFf3gR519n9 . If you want to spread the information about the programme, share the link with other teachers and English teachers' organizations or write to: julija.szkliaruk@earlystage.pl who is the coordinator of the programme.
9:10 - 9:30
DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS IN TEENAGERS THROUGH TASK-BASED LEARNING - TBL.
Based on on the example of the “English for Leaders” course at the Ukrainian Leadership Academy
Presenter: Yana Kozachenko
Yana is a founder of the EVER Group of Companies created to provide multi-pronged language services in Ukraine (EverEnglish, EverSpanish, EverTeach Training Centre, EverTranslation). She is a CELTA/DELTA (M2) certified language instructor. Yana is an author of the course "English for Leaders" in partnership with the Ukrainian Leadership Academy and DoS of English at ULA. She is the author of "Anglokonstruktor", a handbook of interactive grammar. She was a participant of ELT IH Barcelona ELT conference on February 7-8, 2020, a speaker at CAMP LEAD, EdCamp Ukraine, IATEFL Ukraine Conference, etc. In 2021, Yana launched a YouTube channel #мета_мільйон created particularly for the Ukrainian audience to raise awareness of the importance of learning English through edutainment.
English is no longer an object of study but a tool designed to communicate deeper senses. During the war in Ukraine, the need for leadership among young people increased exponentially and English can reinforce the implementation of these changes. During the workshop, Yana will demonstrate how the example of the formation program of the Ukrainian Leadership Academy English strengthens project management skills etc and, and how the mentoring role of an English teacher is capable of instilling changes in 5 local communities where the academy is located.
9:35 - 10:00
TRICKY GAMES FOR STUDENTS ONLINE
Presenter: Eugenia Kostenko
Eugenia has worked for 8 years in the language school with groups of students, as well as with individuals and corporate clients. Currently, a freelance teacher. Major throughout the teaching is not to use technology for the sake of technology, but for the sake of results and our students' wellbeing.
In the workshop we will take a deeper look into some fascinating online gamifying services for comfortable work online and offline, without any harm to the study process and mental health of a teacher.
10:00 - 10:25
WRITING FOR EXAMS: ESSENTIALS
Presenter: Natalia Zachynska
Natalia is a founder of an A + language studio, a Cambridge English Language Assessment Preparation Centre. Teaching EFL experience is more than 11 years, an 8-year specialization in preparation for A2 Key, B1 Preliminary, B2 First, IELTS GT and Academic, C1 Advanced. Certificates of CELTA, TKT. A teacher trainer, an international English speaking exams examiner and a constant speaker at IATEFL Poland, SOVa (Ukraine), DonELTA, ELT Malta Conference.
We all struggle with difficulties while our students are writing for exams regardless of levels of language competence, layouts and topics. The problem is always simple as that: students don’t know how to organize their ideas, what language to use and its appropriacy. During this short workshop, you will find out how to turn your students’ fear for writing into an easily approachable task.
10:30 - 10:55
ALTERNATIVES TO CLASSROOM TEACHING: REWARDING JOBS IN EDUCATION (personal experience)
Presenter: Mariia Vorobets
Mary is an ESL Learning Architect in IT, Instructional Designer, teacher-blogger and a founder of an online school of English - ORDIMARY SCHOOL.
Mary is a certified teacher (CELTA, TKT) and a teacher trainer, who teaches adults (ESP corporate classes), conducts workshops for private schools and consults colleagues.
What happens when you opt out of the classroom, but you can’t imagine working in any other field but education? Your skills and experience can give you an advantage in a variety of jobs besides teaching in a classroom environment. Based on my experience, I’ll share some pros and cons of alternative career options for ESL teachers, including typical responsibilities and additional education you might have to obtain, what to focus on and how to promote your talents.
10:55 - 11:10
EDUCATION DURING WARTIME: IS IT DIFFERENT?
Presenter: Rimma Buchok
Rimma is one of the top Ukrainian experts and practitioners in teaching English to Young Learners. With a 17-year experience in teaching her professionalism expands over several areas including CLIL, Whole Brain Teaching and Exam preparation. Rimma worked her way up from a public-school teacher to found her own Mrs. Buchok’s Language Centre. Rimma is a certified professional: CELT-P, TKT. She is passionate about helping her students learn language by implementing strategies that her students need to succeed.
After two years of pandemic working online and offline, we keep doing our job – teaching students and supporting them in each and every step, even if it’s a war outside the window. There are several basic moments which each teacher should keep in mind while doing their job and one of them is social and emotional wellbeing of students. We do not give up, we keep hoping and keep exploring the theme of the future. We are supporters, educators and adults whom our students can trust and be safe with. We teach everything from grammar and social skills to hands-on activities. We foster curiosity. We teach what it means to be human. Join this session to learn more about life-important basics.
11:10 - 11:30
FIVE TIPS FOR A FREELANCE TEACHER THAT WILL PAY OFF NO MATTER WHAT
Presenter: Inna Piankovska
Inna is a self-employed online tutor of English and a teacher blogger. After working as a university instructor for 16 years she went on to pursue her own professional dreams. Today she teaches adults, conducts workshops for colleagues, and speaks at various events for teachers.
Embarking on a career as a freelance teacher can prove to be a challenge regardless of your previous experience. In this session, I’m going to reflect on my way and the pitfalls I had to deal with. All the five tips I’m to reveal in my presentation are based on the steps I took and everything that prompted me to do so.
11:30 - 11:55
EXPLOITING MATERIALS TO THE FULLEST
Presenter: Maryna Myronyuk
Maryna has been working in ELT since 1999. She is a CELTA trainer, a CELT-P/S trainer, a teacher of English and an international speaking examiner. Maryna has taught students of different ages and levels in absolutely various contexts: from kindergarten to corporate business classes. She also devoted 10 years to teaching in the state school.
Having been a novice teacher, I was quite dependent on printed materials and prepared a lot of extra handouts for each lesson. As a result, in class we jumped from one exercise to another. However, now my attitude is a bit different and I try to make as much use of the material as possible. At the session I’ll show you how to exploit reading and grammar tasks more.
12:00 - 12:20
TIRED OF BORING 'MATCH THE WORD AND ITS DEFINITION' TASKS? Here are some engaging activities to add variety.
Presenter: Liliia Domashovets
Liliia is an English language instructor with over 7 years of experience in teaching and CELTA & IHCYLT qualifications. She currently teaches English for Academic Purposes at Al-Asala Colleges in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Her professional interests include material development, teacher training as well as writing an Instagram blog about teaching & language learning.
The presentation will focus on fun alternative tasks for matching/definition exercises. Matching tasks are quite common and thus students might at times get bored. Liliia will share some interesting activities that might be done with students in class instead of another “match the word/phrase and its definition” exercise.
12:25 - 12:50
THE LITTLE PRINCE'S POINT AT ISSUE 'WHO IS THE TEACHER AND WHO IS THE PUPIL'. Looking for what makes the world around in profession significant and meaningful.
Presenter: Nataliya Dyachuk
Nataliya has been involved in teacher-training since 1993. Being an active conference-goer, materials-writer and workshops-conductor, national and international conferences presenter, she is a devoted member of different professional organizations IATEFL, TESOL, “SUTO” Professional Council of Educators, Tutor’s Club. Back in 2000 she founded the Agency of Foreign Languages ‘RUNA’® with a multi-dimensional activity profile. For more than 10 years the agency functions as an Authorised Exams Centre Cambridge Assessment English in Ukraine- UA011. N. Dyachuk holds Cambridge CPE, CELTA and Teacher Trainer certificates. She successfully completed International IELTS Instructor Course as well as all TKT Modules’ courses including CLIL, organized by ‘SR –Teaching and Learning’. Her scientific attention ranges from EFL methodology, media methodology, media pedagogy, study of aphoristic utterances to materials development on the basis of authentic resources. The newest realm of her interests rests now in the sphere of neurolanguage coaching.
In the course of this presentation we shall make an attempt to explore our personal professional planets, examine teachers as individuals, touch upon the teacher-learner rapport, highlight that penetrating issues that stimulate a process of learning in the minds of both an educator and a student, question the complications all face in the course of study. The foreseen result we view in letting everyone give themselves open-ended answers that would stimulate the process of further cross-examination of professional development as growth, not repair.
13:00 - 13:20
THE NEXT CHAPTER FOR ELT
Presenter: Olga Bond
Olga is a CELTA certified English teacher- blogger, Udemy instructor-creator, International IELTS instructor, a host of Teachers Sharing Interviews on the teach.love.earn YouTube channel.
Olga has been in ELT since 2008, having worked at state schools, private English schools, Kyiv University of Market Relations and its college. Since 2020 Olga’s switched to online teaching and has been teaching Business English, preparing Ss for job interviews and exams. In 2020 Olga posted her first course on the Udemy platform, and continues working on her third course so far. Additionally Olga’s exploring the benefits of YouTube, creating content in the ELT area. Olga is a regional representative of SR Teaching&Learning in Poland.
As during peaceful life, and unfortunately as in an example of recent dreadful events, we see the proof of a vital need of having a good financial safety net for everyone. During my session I’d like to introduce you to the ways of passive income in ELT: an education platform I’ve created 2 courses on. As well as I will provide you with a different perspective on YouTube platform, my view on how we can benefit from it to become competitive and well-demanded professionals among potential students. And I’d like to give you an idea on my personal understanding of the ‘’new’’ old trend for the ELT future - here read “what our students really want but we don’t give them”. I’m curious if you’ve thought of it yet?
13:30 - 13:50
HOW TO BE FLEXIBLE IN THE CLASSROOM AND ACT ON THE SPOT
Presenter: Kristina Honcharenko
Kristina is a teacher (CELTA and Delta certified) and a teacher trainer. She's been teaching for more than 12 years. Kristina used to be a DoS at one of the most popular schools in Kyiv. Now she's more than proud to be the DoS at EverEnglish and the head of EverTeach project. She has taken part in a number of ELT Conferences (both international and Ukrainian ones). One of her favourite ones has been an annual IH conference in Barcelona. Kristina's motto is 'teaching is sharing', meaning it's all about knowledge and energy exchange with learners and with teachers as well. Kristina is a huge fan of Dogme approach and is happy to be keeping in touch with its author Scott Thornbury.
These days it's of paramount importance to be flexible in the class. Have you had a situation when you started a class and it turned out this topic is either sensitive or not interesting for your learner? Or has it happened to you that the language you had been planning to teach turned out to be of no use for your learner? How would you act in these situations? Join Kristina's input and be ready to get some practical ideas on how to act on the spot! ;)
14:00 - 14:25
POKA-YOKE IN ELT
Presenter: Viktoriia Besarab
Viktoriia is an EFL teacher who has worked with various age groups and levels, speakers of different languages, catering to the needs of students from all walks of life. She now only works with adults, mainly with higher levels. Many of her students are teachers and she also runs regular methodology workshops for English teachers. Among her ELT passions are material development and lexical journals.
Poka-yoke is a mistake-proofing method used in manufacturing and other spheres of life. It can also be applied to teaching English as a foreign language and go by the name backward planning, or backward design. In this talk, you will find out how you can apply it at the lesson, unit, and course levels in order to achieve tangible results and reduce stress.
14:25 - 14:45
TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE
Presenter: Maryna Yarova
Maryna is an EFL teacher in Kyiv Specialized Secondary School 211. Her teaching experience is 17 years of working with different age groups of different background, both individually and in groups. Now Maryna combines her work with school learners, running the NUS course for basic school English teachers in cooperation with Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University, In-Service Teacher Training Institute. Her absolute favourite in ELT methodology is involving learners into creative tasks and projects where a few subjects are integrated.
The quality of education nowadays is a combination of competences that provide individuals with all the necessary tools to succeed. English is a tool that can be distinguished as a core one. What is the role of the feedback in formative assessment and meeting the objectives of learning? What are the must-be elements of effective feedback? Let us talk about these issues at the session
14:45 - 15:05
A FRUITFUL PRACTICAL WALK THROUGH PRESCHOOLERS
Presenter: Oksana Vakhil
Oksana Vakhil is a founder and owner of language school Merry land, Ukraine (Chernihiv), Cambridge Exam preparation centre. Have been teaching for 13 years. IH Vyl(London), Celt P, TKT YL, Celt S( made a half-war…) Drama Teacher, Teacher Trainer, art therapist. A speaker at IATEFL Ukraine, IATEFL Slovenia, IATEFL Hungary, IH Ukraine, Sova Ukraine. Organised YL Fest for teachers. Author and producer of our local TV programm for children ,,English Time’’. Prepare students for Cambridge YL exams.
Be ready to walk through a very practical path and get a lot of useful activities for very young learners. I invite you to join my practical session where I will be sharing my knowledge and experience. These are the activities you can use with your students as well as with your kids. 2-in-1.
15:05 - 15:30
TEACHING FOR PEACE IN A WAR TIME
Presenter: Olga Zhdan
Olga is a TESOL, TKT-certified ESL teacher with over 11 years of experience.
International IELTS Instructor.
She constantly strives for continuous improvement instead of perfection, and definitely knows how to fulfill her students' needs.
Conference speaker at IATEFL Poland, IATEFL Hungary, SOva, Teacher Voice, TESOL France.
Founder of Learning Space "OZ"
War creates chaos. From a child psychology perspective, it is essential that all children have some routine in their lives. If students, living in a warzone cannot go to school, the routine disappears, and they will have trouble, recovering from the crisis.
My session is a dedication to all educators, teaching in shelters, that will give you a new look at lesson materials, classroom management and the importance of teacher-student rapport.