Creating lessons that work – mini-event

Join us on 20 March for three practical sessions showing you how to create effective lessons for your learners. You can watch the event live on Facebook or register to join us on Zoom. 

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About this event

In these practical sessions, our speakers share tools, tips and strategies to help you plan effective lessons and write classroom materials. You will learn how to define and deliver learning outcomes that meet learners' needs and discover the secrets to writing excellent lesson materials. 


About the sessions

Session 1: How to write great learning outcomes

Speaker:

Robert Martinez

Time and date:

10.00–11.00 (UK time) 20 March 2025

Session information:

Do you feel that your lesson aims could be clearer sometimes? Do you already know the basics of planning lessons and writing learning outcomes, but could do with another perspective and ideas? Did you know 'fudge' helps with lesson planning?! If you want to get even better at writing and achieving great learning outcomes, come along to this practical webinar to find out how.  


Session 2: The secrets to writing classroom materials

Speakers:

Katherine Bilsborough and John Hughes

Time and date:

11.15–12.15 (UK time) 20 March 2025

Session information:

Writing classroom materials is a key skill for any teacher. Even if we use published materials, we still need to make tests, create video worksheets, design games, plan discussion questions … The list is endless! Combining over 60 years of experience as teachers and published authors, John and Katherine will share their top tips for writing materials, including analysing the flow of your materials, integrating images, using free online tools and working with a 'writing buddy'!  


Session 3: Panel discussion: How to create lessons that work

Speakers:

TBC

Time and date:

12.30–13.30 (UK time) 20 March 2025

Session information:

Three teachers from around the world share practical ideas for creating engaging and effective lessons. 


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About the speakers

Robert Martinez has worked as a teacher and teacher trainer in numerous countries since 1994 and is now based in Spain. He is passionate about language assessment, technology integration in the classroom and teacher education, and he is a CELTA tutor and assessor and an EAQUALS inspector. He speaks Italian and Spanish, and can get by in French and Portuguese. 

Katherine Bilsborough is a teacher educator and ELT author, well known for her coursebooks for primary and secondary. Besides coursebooks and digital courses, she writes free-access materials and lesson plans for the British Council and several ELT publishers. She has worked with teachers around the globe on developing materials, from low-resource printed worksheets to highly polished video animation.  

John Hughes is a published ELT author and a specialist in coursebooks for adults and business English. Increasingly, he is working in areas such as online course design and video production. He's also the originator and series editor of the 'ETpedia' resource series for teachers (a British Council ELTons finalist). As a teacher trainer, he's worked with teachers from all over the world. John regularly collaborates with Kath as https://writingeltmaterials.com/ 


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