Congrats to SOVa and their founder Lana Sushko on the 5 th anniversary which they beautifully connected with the 4th SOVa conference. The event took place on February 24th 2018 in Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics.
SARGOI expresses gratitude for creating such a fascinating event where about 300 educators across Ukraine could benefit from co-learning and co-development as well as get inspiration through sessions in 6 different tracks - from teaching kids and teens, to teacher development.
The conference started with an inspiring welcome speech from Lana Sushko who willingly shared the numbers of great achievements and happy victories SOVa has obtained for the last 5 years.
Follow the link to read SOVA's victories in numbers
Anastasiya Rybak, SARGOI founder and Director of Studies proceeded to give the talk where she shared her professional and personal experience of starting SARGOI from scratch and explored the question of how to stay motivated in the time of fast changes, dramatic distractions, and uncertainty. In this talk called "ITE: Changing Mindset while Teaching" she also introduced a new international programme Inspiring Teachers of English, which is a joint project from SARGOI and SOVa, and invited the educators to join the program.
To read Anastasiya's talk, follow the link
To read ITE broshure, follow the link
More details about ITE project here
Jane Mitchel, language educator from RMIT English Worldwide was the next to involve the participants into the amazing world of flipped learning through a Skype meeting.
To explore more about flipped class while learning languages, follow the link
Anna Shovkaliuk from Cambridge University Press ELT Ukraine gave a number of practical hints how to learn and practice vocabulary in an exciting way.
Kateryna Protsenko, Director of Studies from International Language Centre gave a session about Dogme and engaged teachers into three primary aims of the approach: teaching through conversation, taking out external input such as course book and technology and letting the lesson content be driven by the students rather than being pre-planned by the teacher
To explore more about Teaching Unplugged by Scott Thornbury and Luke Meddings
We are grateful to every single teacher performing by calling and treating her/ his work like craft, who never stops learning and sharing, looking for the ways to become authentic, professional, and inspiring.
SARGOI educators are inviting you to a little reminder that "The quality of an educational system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers and principles, since students are the product of their craft."
