Tutors Conference Online

IELTS Advanced, Founder of Language Tutors, Tutors Conference organizer, speaker

SERHII KUSHNIKOV is an English and German tutor with 22-year experience, host and founder of Tutors Conferences, entrepreneur since 2012, has experience in blogging as well as creating materials for ELT, lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.

He has experience in arranging and promoting speaking clubs, language school and programmes at youth summer tent camps

We usually pick up some practical ideas listening to different successful teacher’s and tutor’s cases. Having 22-year experience teaching and tutoring children and adults, Serhii will share some proven tips and tricks based on real cases he has had in his career, which will equip you and give you more confidence and determination. The session will be featured with a special quiz.

CELTA, IHCYLT, DELTA, international teacher trainer, PhD in Semiotics

Marina Yesipenko holds MA in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, English and Japanese language and literature, CELTA, IHCYLT and Delta certificates in teaching from Cambridge English Assessment. Her main spheres of interest comprise linguistics, methodology of teaching, language learning and acquisition, cognitive science, social semiotics and multimodality. She has been a practicing English as Second Language teacher, teacher trainer and methodologist for 15 years. Marina is a frequent conference presenter, the most recent events including InnovateELT (Barcelona), IATEFL Poland, IATEFL Hungary, The Image Conference (Brussels, Belgium), ELT Council (Malta). Currently she is doing a PhD course in Semiotics at Charles University, researching the interdisciplinary topic of redefining the modern concept of literacy with the use of multimodal texts.

In the course of this interactive workshops participants will reflect on their own learning spaces for foreign language learning. Participants will then gain an insight into the notion of learner autonomy and how it could be applicable in ELT classes. This will be followed by reflection and discussion on how these tips, tricks and practices could be integrated into their contexts and classrooms.

CELTA, TKT, examiner, founder of English exam preparation centre

Natalia Zachynska is a founder of an A + language studio, a Cambridge English Language Assessment Preparation Centre. Teaching EFL experience is more than 10 years, a 7-year specialization in preparation for A2 Key, B1 Preliminary, B2 First, IELTS GT and Academic? C1 Advanced. Certificates of CELTA, TKT. An teacher trainer, an international English speaking exams examiner and a constant speaker at IATEFL Poland, SOVa (Ukraine), DonELTA, ELT Malta Conference. A co-author of ZNO Leader Practice Tests Part 1. A member of IATEFL Ukraine. Professional credo: “I adhere to the idea, that we should teach students in a way we would like our own children to be taught in future. If you prepare students for exams, you have to pass them successfully as well. A teacher has to develop continuously as well as share the experience”.

Online and offline tips and tricks which facilitate ZNO writing test part preparation. During the session the participants will find out:

teacher of English and Russian for foreigners, IELTS Academic (band 8), teacher of English and Russian for foreigners, founder of Study&Go School, methodologist, English tutors' coach

Olga Khokhlova is an experienced language teacher and who has been teaching English and Russian for foreigners for over 12 years and hiring and training language teachers as a methodologist and a coach for over 10 years. Besides, Olga is an entrepreneur with a 5-year experience in business who has been able to build a successful career in the field of language teaching, by launching offline and online schools. Her experience in business and coaching language teacher motivated her to create the course for English language tutors called “How to teach online and earn over $3000 per month”. She is also the author of an online course “How to prepare students for IELTS and TOEFL”.

Communicative approach is, undoubtedly, the most commonly preferred teaching approach among language teachers of the 21st century. However, not all teachers understand the importance of making writing communicative.

During the session, you will:
- find out in what ways writing tasks can be incorporated into lessons, not only assigned as homework;
- get some useful tips about how to make writing fun, and how to make your students interact with each other while dealing with writing tasks;
- get some sample lesson plans for practicing writing skills and will have a chance to practice designing a similar lesson plan.

Teacher trainer, CiSELT Proficiency, TKT, CPE, Edutainment expert

Irina Trofimova is a teacher/ teacher trainer with 21 years of teaching experience. CiSELT Proficiency, TKT, CPE (grade A), Introduction into Constructivist Education (University of Norther Iowa). Edutainment expert, Cambridge exams fan, mom of two, and a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu white belt.

What makes language skills impressive? In this session we will talk about problems that are typical for a non-native speaker, and get some hands-on strategies for an instant improvement.