ARTESOL

Effective Classroom Management, with Kevin Parker

Wednesday, February 11, from 6 to 7 PM

Useful Strategies to Supersize Classroom Management

In this session, participants will explore key principles for building a strong classroom management system. The presenter will share practical classroom management strategies that can be used and adapted for all ages and linguistic abilities of students. During the session, participants will be involved in a virtual community of practice and will be encouraged to share their own ideas and strategies in the chat. This session will allow for new ideas, collaboration, and reflection in order to successfully begin the new school year.

Kevin L. Parker is an international educator and teacher trainer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with a minor in secondary education from East Tennessee State University, as well as a Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction from Tusculum University. Most recently, Kevin served as an English Language Fellow, sponsored by the US Department of State, in Paraguay and Argentina. As a Fellow, Kevin was primarily involved in teacher training and facilitating culturalexchange among students and  communities throughout Latin America. Prior to his fellowship, Kevin was a secondary Spanish and ESL instructor in East Tennessee. Kevin is a passionate global educator who strives to bring people together through language facilitation and cultural understanding.

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A Deeper Dive into Effective Formative Assessment, with Annie Altamirano

Tuesday, February 10, from 6 to 7 PM

Practical Ideas for Effective & Innovative Assessment

This presentation explores effective formative feedback strategies in education. It discusses common misconceptions, outlines different levels of feedback, and presents criteria for designing impactful feedback. The talk introduces a blueprint for orchestrating formative feedback, emphasizing student engagement and self-regulation. Various practical techniques are shared to help educators implement these strategies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and enhanced learning outcomes.

Annie Altamirano MA ELT & Applied Linguistics, University of London) is a teacher, materials writer and international teacher trainer with extensive experience working with teachers and learners of all ages across Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. As author, she has developed teaching materials for young learners and adolescents with all main publishers. Annie is currently a mentor with EVE (Equal Voices in ELT) and a Pilgrims and Cambridge University Press and Assessment trainer.

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Planning for the Real Classroom, with Paola Danesi

Monday, February 9, from 6 to 7 pm

New Visions for New Paradigms in ELT
Planning is often reduced to a routine administrative task—linear, repetitive, and disconnected from real classrooms. But classrooms, students, and learning have changed. So it is time to revisit planning: what still works, what needs adjusting, and what must evolve. This session invites teachers to reimagine planning for real learners and real 21st-century demands, exploring key shifts from coverage to impact and from content to experience, while sharing concrete ideas that integrate differentiation, emotion, humour, and joy. Because better planning creates better learning.

Paola Danesi is a graduate English teacher from Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “J. R. Fernández” (Argentina), where she currently teaches Language III in the English Teacher Training Programme.
She holds international TESOL qualifications in Communicative Teaching, Sociolinguistics, and Materials Design from the Institute of Education, University of London.
Paola is a teacher trainer in in-service professional development programmes for state-run primary schools through Escuela de Maestros (Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires) and regularly delivers training sessions in bilingual state schools across the city.
She coordinates and supervises bilingual programmes in primary education and serves as a tutor in the Diplomatura en Actualización Pedagógica para la Enseñanza de Inglés en Primaria at the University of Morón.
She has designed two widely attended online courses for English teachers for Portal Maestros (Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires):
“21st Century Skills in the English Classroom” and “Formative Assessment to Boost Meaningful Learning and Self-Esteem.”
Paola is currently Head of English at Buenos Aires English High School and English Coordinator at Iosef Caro School.
She has co-authored several teacher’s books and educational materials for major ELT publishers and has delivered talks, workshops, and webinars on a wide range of ELT topics at national and international conferences.

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