Helbling Day 2024 | Helbling Mexico

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SCHEDULE

Saturday • 5 October

Registration + Morning Coffee

Event Opening + Welcome

Social-emotional learning with primary children by Herbert Puchta

Marbles Introduction by Koen Van Landeghem

Coffee Break

Helbling Digital by Koen Van Landeghem

Differentiated teaching doesn’t work! Or does it…? by Herbert Puchta

Lucky Draw

Closing + Certificates

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FACE TO FACE
with
Herbert

Featured Speaker
Herbert Puchta

Herbert Puchta is a renowned author, teacher trainer, and thought leader in English Language Teaching. With a career spanning decades, he has made significant contributions to the field through his innovative research, award-winning coursebooks, and global impact as a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator.

As a former president of IATEFL, Herbert has been at the forefront of shaping the future of English language education. His expertise in cognitive psychology has led to groundbreaking approaches that have transformed classroom practices worldwide.

SAVE MY SEAT!

Programme

Social-emotional learning with primary children:
More than just a bandwagon?

There’s a general consensus that it has become much more difficult to teach children than it was ten or twenty years ago. In this session, we will be looking at the concept of SEL (social-emotional learning), an approach that has been shown to potentially improve children’s academic achievement, together with their behaviour and their attitudes.

We will discuss what SEL can contribute to the wellbeing of your young learners, and look at ways of applying its key concepts to the primary ELT classroom with the aim of helping children build resilience, self-esteem and value-based behaviour as a basis for lifelong learning, as well as developing empathy, tolerance and a sense of belonging.

Herbert will discuss the theory of SEL and present practical examples

to demonstrate how SEL can be combined with sharply-focused language

work and fun learner engagement. Practical ideas will come from Marbles,

Herbert's latest coursebook for primary children, published by Helbling.

Differentiated teaching doesn’t work! Or does it…?
Theoretical considerations and practical solutions for teaching mixed abilities

It is a widely accepted observation among educators that any class is a mixed-ability class. While the latest research shows that differentiated instruction can have a hugely positive impact on learning, the reality is that teachers, more often than not, work long hours and have too many students in their classrooms, whom they can sometimes struggle to motivate – and all this makes differentiation a challenge.

In this session, Herbert Puchta will explore the tools and mindset we need to differentiate our teaching of young teenagers effectively and with little or no extra preparation time. Get to know a unique system of individualized practice that is sure to support every student in improving their learning outcomes!

Herbert will share a few practical examples from his new coursebook Options (for lower secondary learners), and his recently published resource book (with Chris Jory) Differentiation in ELT: A fresh take on teaching mixed-ability classes, both published by Helbling.