What's cooking in August and September at TESOL Macedonia-Thrace Northern Greece?

Are you wondering how to renew your membership? 

Look no more! We are everywhere! In August you can find TESOL Macedonia-Thrace, Northern Greece in all major exhibitions. 

• 24th and 25th August, Macedonia Palace Hotel at the Palso Northern Greece 34th Conference and Exhibition. This year the conference is going to be devoted on soft skills.
• 26th August, Capsis Hotel Thessaloniki at the Foreign Language Forum entitled ''Back to school'' and organised by ELT News
• 27th August, The Met Hotel - Thessaloniki at the International Publishers Exhibitions.
• At the International Publishers Exhibitions we will also have a session entitled: Playful! Positive! Practical: Activities to Kickstart your school year with Tanya Livarda and Maria Araxi Sachpazian

As per our custom, we will be putting TWO free memberships in a lucky draw, so if you have never been our member, do not miss the opportunity.

To register for this event or read the programme, visit: https://www.ip-exhibitions.eu/events/autumn-23-thessaloniki-ip-exhibition/

As we will not have sessions in the other exhibitions, we will make sure you receive your free training session if you visit our stand!

Finally, in August our ELTester is going to be back so do not miss a chance to register to get your magazine and your Iatefl Associate discount.

This is particularly important now as the Themes IATEFL Online Conference is approaching on September 16th (11 am - 15 pm UK time) and you can get a considerable discount as an IATEFL Associate member

More information can be found at https://www.iatefl.org/events/450

Price of Membership

During the August exhibitions and our Welcome Back Day Conference Event in September, members will be able to renew or register at the discounted price of 30euro. Students of all Universities and Colleges can join by paying 25 euro (unless they come in a group of three when the price goes down to 20euro).

Do not forget that through TESOL MTH/NG you can join IATEFL at a discounted associate price which allows you access to all the benefits of being an IATEFL Member.

As always TESOL Macedonia Thrace Northern Greece will be providing a full calendar of events (one webinar every month) until February 2024 when our Annual International Conference will be held face to face. At the same time (February 2024) we will hold our AGM and the elections for the new board.

Welcome Back Day Conference, 24th September 2023

On Sunday 24th September 2023 at 10:00 we will be holding our Welcome Back Day Conference, which will be held face to face at a venue which will be announced shortly.

Our speakers are Ms Zafi Mandali and Ms Marina Kollatou who will be presenting practical strategies about how to 'open' the text and teach reading strategies. This event is a spin-off from the closing Open Space Technology Event of the Conference organised in Larissa in October 2022. We are very happy that one conference has inspired another event!

Happy Summer Holidays! See you in August!

 

End-of-Year Summer Conference

 

 The date of our events is Saturday 17th June 2023, starting at 16:30. Our event is a Saturday one to let you enjoy Father's Day on Sunday and an afternoon one to accommodate the needs of our speakers who live in entirely different time zones. 

     Dr Angelos Bollas 

                                      Title: Something is rotten in the state of TESOL land

 Ms Dorothy Zemach  

                                   Title: Future Proof

Dr Gabriel Diaz Maggioli 

                                     Title: The 6 E's of Language Teaching: Making learning 

                                         stick

The zoom link has already been sent to full TESOL MTH/NG members. 

28th Annual International Conference of TESOL MACEDONIA-THRACE, NORTHERN GREECE FULL PROGRAMME LINK

 

Join us on April 1st and 2nd for a thought-provoking online conference. 

Access to the conference is restricted to those members who have renewed their membership after June 2022. If you want to renew your membership, email TESOL MTH/NG at tesolmth@gmail.com 

You can find our Programme PDF and the Overview of the two days

here

28th Annual International Conference of TESOL MTH / NG [ONLINE] Plenaries and Summaries with times

Summary 

In this talk, I draw on critical incident narratives produced by tertiary-level English language teachers to show how responding to these incidents enabled teachers to develop personally and professionally. These critical incidents were classified as such on the basis of four structural characteristics: they 1) recount past events, 2) signify significant change in professional knowledge, 3) are treated as formative thus informing current and future teaching practice, and 4) contain emotionally charged discourse. In describing past emotional turmoil and ethical dilemmas, the teachers reflected on how the critical incidents helped them to understand themselves, regulate their emotions and develop resilience.

Summary 

What are Transferrable Skills? What are Transferrable Skills? What is Task-based Language Assessment? (TBLA) How are Backward Design and Instructional Design related to TBLA? What do learners need to know to be successful? How can we make TBLA meaningful to our learners? How do teachers turn learners into creators of content? What role do graphic organizers play in TBLA? What does the Assessment Center Approach have to do with TBLA? How do these concepts, frameworks, and approaches influence the way we teach? How do teachers develop themselves to become Business Communication Trainers who concentrate on teaching Transversal Skills? Is TBLA for everyone? 

Summary 

Actually, there is no direct connection between continuous professional development (CPD) and ChatGPT. But did the title make your curious? Why? It may be because hot topics like this create motivation, particularly intrinsic motivation. In this plenary, we will examine how aspects of motivation and principles of andragogy (teaching adult learners) affect CPD. We will consider the impact of the process of change as a factor. Participants will come away with a better understanding of ways to excite and motivate teachers to participate in CPD, and suggestions of how AI tools such as ChatGPT can be harnessed to enhance it. 

Summary 

The Owl Factor assumes that the teaching and learning process is built around exchange and resources. This process can be narrowed down to what I call the KNOW-SHOW-GROW approach. Teacher and students know different things. Each one needs to show the other what they know so that they can grow in the process. This session explores it!

 

PROGRAMME of the 28th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: To TESOL or NOT TO TESOL?

 

The final Version of the programme can be found here

TESOL Macedonia-Thrace, Northern Greece at the Spring 2023 International Publishers Exhibition

 Sunday 19th March 2023 from 10:00-18:00 

           International Publishers' Exhibition 

              Thessaloniki, The MET Hotel 

This Sunday 19/3 we are getting together at the IP Exhibition at the MET Hotel in Thessaloniki. We are planning to be terribly busy, and we want that for you as well! The IP Is an excellent opportunity to visit the TESOL Macedonia-Thrace, Northern Greece stand to get an update on our upcoming conference, renew your membership (if it was not renewed in August-September 2022) and attend our great programme of sessions featuring Dr. Vicky Papachristou, Vice Chair of TESOL MTh/NG and Ms Antigone Melidonioti, Secretary General. 

Here is some information on the TESOL MTH/NG strand of events from 15:30 to 18:30 at the Ostria Room. 

Between the two sessions there will be a coffee break. Non-members of TESOL MTH/NG are more than welcome to attend. 

If you are not a member of our Teachers' Association yet, you can enter our lucky draw for 2 free annual memberships! The winners will be announced at our AGM. 

EdPuzzle Event Hosted by TESOL MTH/NG Video from the session

On Sunday 5th March 2023 TESOL MTH/ NG hosted an EdPuzzle Event with speakers Antigoni Medidonioti and Alisa Linarejos. The event was a public one and we are extremely happy with the turnout and your comments. 

You can find the link to recording here