What incentives do learners have to produce good work when studying online? How does this affect their motivation levels? And ours? In this webinar, we’ll explore how assessments help increase motivation and look at simple yet effective online ways to test, assess, track, and evaluate learners’ progress without giving ourselves more work.

Anne de Leon has over 20 years’ experience in education as a teacher, teacher trainer, materials and course designer, and education consultant. She has worked in main stream state schools, private institutions, language academies, universities, and alternative education centres such as Montessori and remote teaching.

Are you a teacher working with teens? Are you looking for some fresh ideas for your online classes? Then this webinar is for you! We will show tried-and-tested communicative activities that can help keep your teens engaged and motivated. We will demonstrate how task-based and project-based approaches can be applied online and share tools and best practices. Although the session is aimed at teaching teens online, the ideas and activities can be easily adapted for adults and face-to-face classes.

Anna Neil is an ELT teacher and CELTA teacher trainer based in Brighton. She specialises in educational technology and has developed a vocabulary revision app explayn.co.uk. Anna has taught a wide range of classes both face-to-face and online and her teaching style works particularly well with young learners. She also delivers training sessions for other teachers and regularly presents at ELT conferences such as IATEFL and others.

Anita Derecskei is an ELT teacher, CELTA trainer and Cambridge speaking examiner based in Barcelona. She trains novice and experienced teachers and is especially interested in learner autonomy and the use of technology. She has worked as a teacher in various contexts (general English, business English, teenagers, kids, ESP, EAP) in Hungary, the UK and Spain. She enjoys creating training course for teachers and creating engaging materials. She is a proud member of Cooperativa de Servéis Lingüítics de Barcelona and a regular presenter at various conferences.

Working with communicative projects entails designing units that cater to all of the learners’ needs in the classroom, be it at a linguistic level, at a cognitive level (ability and capacity of the learners to intake content and language), and at a social level. This webinar is designed to help teachers start the process in the creation of projects in a foreign language and in the students' first language. We will look at the first steps, essential elements, and other instructional procedures that are involved in the creation of projects, as well as look at real examples from students at different stages in the learning of a foreign language.

Lola Reeves Garay Abad is a teacher, a teacher trainer and a specialist in SLA, SLDs and CLIL. She has worked in education for the last 17 years. She has managed academic programs, published classroom material and created and delivered teaching development programs, conferences and workshops for educators in mainstream education and language teaching in Spain, Portugal, the UK, the US and Latin America, among others. She works in public and private education teaching Science, English and other subjects in Primary and Secondary. She is also involved in research, and works as an educational consultant and mentor in various public and private schools across the country.