Express Publishing which is a publishing house founded since 1998, organized a teacher training seminar on the 31th of March. The venue was Hotel Alexander Palace in Skopje.
The presenters George Kokolas and Alex Roditis covered several topics of interest for teachers:
- Making the right noise
- Turning reluctant learners into enthusiastic ones
- Developing verbal and non verbal communication skills
- Specialization for the 21st century
The first topic addressed students that make noise, lack concentration and often do not participate in the class. Numerous techniques were offered to engage those learners such to set limits, to involve them, to challenge them or to adapt our instructional level. Furthermore, ways how to achieve dopamine jackpot were suggested. Most importantly to vary our teaching to suit for visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, left brain and right brain learners.
The second topic suggested ways to use the apps from Express Publishing and the web site expressdigibooks.com where teaching material can be downloaded. It functions as LMS that stands for Learning management system and that allows keeping record of students progress and their attendance. Express Digibooks offers offline apps for available digital material on personal devices. It can be used from students, teacher and managers.
After the coffee break the importance od verbal and non verbal communication was demonstrated through several interactive activities. Finally the last session reminded us that students should be prepared for the 21st century challenges by transforming our classrooms innovative as society is.
At the end there was a raffle, so Express Publishing shared as a present many of its innovative teaching materials, course books, grammar books and exam materials. All teacher received a certificate of attendance.
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