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WORKSHOPS for Kindergarten, Preschool & Early Primary Grades

WORKSHOP 1: Teaching English to Very Young Learners
Practical and creative teaching resources and ideas for Kindergarten and first grades at school.

CHILDREN IN AN EFL ENVIRONMENT: Learning a 2nd Language:
Scheduling the annual curriculum and Syllabus. Adjustment period.
HOME-MADE RESOURCES with inexpensive materials for immediate use in your daily class.
CIRCLE TIME: quick attention grabbers..
REFERENCE CHARTS: Weather chart- Calendar- Helper chart- Clothes Line - Classroom Rules Chart .
INTERACTIVE BOARDS: Flannel Board - Pocket Chart & Word Bank- Magnet Board - Chalk Boards -
Resources for Games: Board and Dice Games Card and Cube Games Floor Games. Storaging games: home-
made bingos, dominoes, puzzles, memory games.
Using Picture cards & Flashcards. How to work with Posters
Using Puppets and making simple Masks. Dramatic Play & Role Plays.
How to use songs, poems, chants, rhymes
LEARNING CENTERS: Book Corner Drama Center Block Corner.
STORY TIME
School Home Connection: Weekend notes, Parents meetings. Show your work: Open Classes Book Fairs
Assessing students progress.

WORKSHOP 2: READY...STEADY...PLAY!
Teaching Very Young Learners through Play & Games.
Turn your playing time into a learning experience of fun and ensure an enjoyable and
meaningful environment. Symbolic Play, Action Games and Learning Centers full of imaginary
worlds and pretend activities!
Young Learners and the importance of play. Types of play: symbolic & construction play.
Dramatization activities: mime, songs, rhymes, chants, play scripts, role-plays, simulation activities.
Using songs and instruments in Dramatic Play & Games
Why do Games work well? Criteria for choosing games.
Outside Games: Run-run, Go to, Traffic Lights, Crocodile, etc
Inside Games: Touch something, Fruit cocktail, Mirror Game, Pass the ball, Play with the dice, Clothes race, etc
Guessing games: Guess the flashcard/ mime/ place/ job.
Card Games: Who has?, Show me, Can I have?
Board Games: Bingo, Memory, Dominoes,
TPR Games: Abracadabra, Five in a hug, Hot, hot, hot, Colors together, Can I cross the river.


























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WORKSHOP 3: STORY TIME
a shared and relaxed experience for little kids
How to use stories in a creative way with effective techniques & useful hands-on activities.
Have you ever wondered how to use stories in an effective and creative way with the little ones? This interactive workshop
introduces participants to everyday hands-on material, effective techniques and attractive and useful activities to enrich
your classes. It highlights the teachers baggage of knowledge for Young Learners at the pre-literacy stage.

STORY TIME: Effective and creative ideas for using stories and books with Young Learners.
Why use stories activities in your class?
How do I choose the right kind of story?
STORY TELLING: Using Literature in Foreign Language teaching: reasons & techniques
Listening to stories - Creating stories - Miming stories
Steps in the Story Telling process.
STORY READING: Introduction of reading in a foreign language
Reading easy stories: language focus Checking Comprehension.
Quick and creative Extension Activities: Necklaces - Retelling Envelopes Leaping-ladders - Knowledge Charts
- Story Telling bags/cubes - Masks Puppets - Graphic Organizers: Mapping, Webs, Venn Diagrams, T
charts.
Making Alternative home-made books.
Big Books: How to make a class-created Big Book..
Using Interactive Boards to tell a story:
Classroom Management: ideas for organizing materials, book storage and a Class Book Corner.

WORKSHOP 4:
CREATIVE STORY-BASED ACTIVITIES & EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES
TO BUILD READING, SPEAKING & WRITING COMPREHENSION
Practical and creative activities for Extensive Reading and Speaking. Hands-on ideas, easy to carry
out in your daily class! Activating Prior Knowledge - Making Predictions - Previewing Texts - Retelling - Asking
Questions Sequencing Events - Making Connections - Identifying Cause and Effect - Building Vocabulary
Why use stories and readers in your class?
RETELLING STRATEGIES to improve comprehension.
Finger Retelling, Retelling Envelopes, Ropes and Vests for oral reconstruction. Triaramas, Cubes & Mobiles, Boxed
Retelling.
Using props with non fiction texts: Color coded-based annotation, Sentence strips, Accordion, Flap & Zig-Zag books.
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT: Word Cubing, Word Stripping, Word Banking & Word Wallets.
RETELLING IMPROVES WRITING: Build with details, Getting behind the scenes, Sum it up with Story Boards,
Summarizing, Narrative Fans.
INTERACTIVE BOARDS to retell stories to kids: Flannel Boards, Magnets Boards, Retelling Aprons, Story Tins.
USING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS as an aid to understand information:
Analyzing, Brainstorming, Comparing & Contrasting, Evaluating, Hypothesizing, Interacting, Sequencing,
Visualizing. Star Diagram Chain of Events 5 Ws Diagrams - Knowledge Charts Venn Diagram Y and PMI
Charts - Story Maps Map it out - T charts: Cause & Effect / Problem & Solution / Compare & Contrast /
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: : Ideas for organizing materials and resources and managing pair and group work

























































WORKSHOP 5:
CREATIVITY & MOTIVATION in your classis it even possible?"
Practical Learning Experiences for sparking Creativity !

Why do we need to incorporate Creativity to the Educational System?
NON FORMAL LEARNING: Creative Learning Experiences.
Why play GAMES when there is so much work to do in the classroom?
Learning Vocabulary through Games Cooperative Games.
The role of perception: Visual Thinking.
Using Stories & Non Fiction Texts: a creative approach.
SONGS: An excellent tool in the English classroom
GRAFFITI a street art: a challenge for our students.
Discussing Murphys laws.
LATERAL THINKING: PUZZLES- BRAIN TEASERS MIND GAMES
Working with proverbs, famous sayings and literature quotes.
Creative Thinking Techniques: Brainstorming, Mind mapping, Role-playing.
Comics & cartoons as pedagogical tools in the classroom.
Using movies, videos and advertising images to motivate learners.
The use of technology in the class: using a digital photo or movie camera, computers, projectors & Power Point
Presentations and Interactive White Boards.
The Internet: implementing Student Blogs, Student Wiki & Google earth.
The teacher role.
The change process.




WORKSHOP 6:
Why play GAMES when there is so much work to do in the classroom?

Why use Games for teaching English as a Foreign Language?
Advantages of using games in the classroom & class dynamics.
EFL Vocabulary Games.
Deciding which game to use - When to use games and to choose them.
Types of games: Linguistic & Communicative.
Practical Language activities: Broken Sentences Drawing a picture- I like Game - Dictionary Bingo
Dictionary Race Classroom Language Pictionary Classroom instructions memory Game What is the question?
Sentence race Category writing Game What is the meaning? Alphabetical order race Whisper Circles Match
& catch the riddle Backs to the board Game Scavenger Hunt Blindfolded course Vocabulary Badminton
Questions & Answers Basketball Fly swatter Game Crazy story
TRADITIONAL LANGUAGE GAMES: Hangman I spy Last letter-first letter Odd-one-out Unscramble
COOPERATIVE GAMES: KNOTS - CLOTHES CHANGE - SPIRALS
Ice-Breakers & Warm-ups - Group Work Activities - Reflection Activities - TEAMWORK & TRUST
TEACHING vs GUIDING FACILITATING-
HUMAN KNOT - COMMON GROUND- STRING TOSS - WHO AM I? - FIND SOMEONE WHO CHARADES
PICTIONARY TABOO-
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT IDEAS




WORKSHOPS for CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT &
SOCIAL and EMOTIONAL LEARNING
(For Primary & High school)



















































WORKSHOP 7:
Resolving conflicts at schoola positive and constructive approach
Skills to deal with conflict creatively and non-violently at Primary and High
school.
WHY TEACHING CONFLICT RESOLUTION AT SCHOOL?
A safe and disciplined environment. A positive school climate: respect, trust, responsibility,
Alternatives to traditional forms of discipline in order to change student behavior.

COMMUNITY BUILDING:
- Positive relationship with peers and teachers. Getting to know each other.
- Feelings of belonging, caring and respect.
- Building trust, friendship, respect and cooperation.
- Exploring common interests. Respecting and celebrating differences.

RULES IN THE COMMUNITY:
- Rules for living in agreement: strategies to solve problems.
- Developing healthy and helpful habits.
- Whats good about Rules? How do I teach the Rules in the classroom?
- I-care Rules for little kids.
- Rules: identify & focus on the problem / Attack the problem, not the person / We cooperate for peaceful
purposes / Listen with an open mind / Treat a persons feelings with respect / Take responsibility for your
words and actions.
- The Problem solving process. The Peace Table.

UNDERSTANDING CONFLICT:
- Understanding conflict as a natural consequence of human interaction.
- The nature of conflict / the nature of violence. Conflict vs. Violence.
- Problem-solving strategies.
- Steps for taking responsibility: apologizing, admitting mistakes, caring about others.
- Peer pressure, bullies, victims and bystanders.
- Win-win is possible!.

THE ROLE OF PERCEPTION:
- Understanding another persons point of view: tolerance for diverse opinions and experience.
- How can different perceptions or prejudices lead to conflicts?
- Understanding and respecting different perspectives, fostering constructive problem-solving skills.
- Perception: seeing differently. How does perception influence how the conflict escalates?
- Body Language / Body Talk.
- Perspective taking: the 3 Cs: being capable, competent, confident.

ANGER MANAGEMENT:
- Angeris it all bad? Pros and cons of anger.
- Understanding that anger is a natural emotion.
- How to redirect anger creatively and constructively.
- Triggers: what makes me angry? Styles of handling anger.
- Managing anger effectively: options for calming down. Being proactive rather than reactive!

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION:
- Effective Listening Skills. Steps to Effective Listening.
- The I-statement.
- Nonverbal communication.
- Paraphrasing: to prevent misunderstandings and to show that you care.
- Stopping rumors.
































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WORKSHOP 8: CONFIDENCE LEADS TO COMPETENCE

Creative activities to develop both language skills and self-esteem.
Create a classroom climate in which real language learning can grow using creative activities that develop security, identity,
belonging, purpose and competence in your students. Become more resourceful and enhance your teaching practice and your
motivation balancing your classroom language routine with innovative techniques that will establish a productive and respectful
learning atmosphere.

Why is self-confidence so important in language learning?
A SENSE OF SECURITY, leads to confidence based on physical and emotional security, providing the necessary
support for developing self-knowledge. Something good and new- The news of the day Welcoming exams
Words that openwords that close - The rules of the game:
A SENSE OF IDENTITY refers to the knowledge and perceptions that we have of ourselves: knowing who I am,
what I can become and how I feel about my image. We Bingo - True & False - Talking about me- Circle
Time:
A SENSE OF BELONGING: we also need a feeling of being accepted and being connected in a groupwe need to
belong. Mirroring - Groups or Pairs- Role-playing conflicts- The confidence corridor- We perform
A SENSE OF PURPOSE enables us to enrich our life by setting realistic and achievable goals, taking the necessary
actions to accomplish our aims and taking responsibility for our decisions. Words of affirmation- Inspiring
quotations- Great dreams- Turning dreams into smart goals- A word of values- We can choose:
A SENSE OF COMPETENCE is knowing that we can reach our goals and be successful. Words have power-
What I know - My success log- Appreciation works- A letter of acknowledgement- A gift for you


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