conference schedule
Saturday • Oct 21
9:00 to 10:00
Plenary Session: Alex Warren
National Geographic Learning
Stuck in the middle with you - Incorporating linguistic mediation into your everyday teaching
10:10 to 11:55
3-day courses - day 2
Courses will run throughout the conference and you can choose one of the topics to follow for the three days
Tutors: Cristiane Perone &
Renata Borges
Gen A: who they are and how they can change the classroom
Day 2:
On the second day of the course, we will understand the implications of some of the Gen A characteristics to the teaching-learning process. We will suggest a range of activities to use with learners in light of their demographic profile.
Tutors: Letícia Moraes &
Sueli Busmayer
Getting into materials writing
Day 2:
What changes from devising activities for specific groups of learners and for a specific and familiar teaching context (schools, language institutes)?
Tutor: Paulo Dantas
Design thinking and education
Day 2:
Ideation & Prototyping
We'll dive into the ideation and prototyping stages and collaborate to brainstorm solutions and create low-fidelity prototypes for feedback. We'll also explore the facilitation and brainstorming sessions as well as the development and testing of low-fidelity prototypes to address educational challenges.
12:00 - 12:45
Webinar Slot
(webinars are delivered by members of our community who have submitted proposals and have been coached by Troika staff)
Materials design
Cartooning your lessons: how to transform slides into an animation?
Carolina Marnati
CLIL
Language Awareness in CLIL: Empowering Teaching and Learning
Maku Parreira
Bilingual education
Two plus two equals four: the role of CALP when solving Word Problems in Math classes
Caroline Barqueta
AI
AI Tools for Educators
Roberta Freitas
Letramento digital
Letramento digital primeiro, transformação digital depois
Janaina for Education
AI
Optimizing the independent language learner's toolkit with AI
Stephan Hughes
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch Break & Troikafezinho
Por que você precisa da Troika membership?
Aline Schwarzer
13:45 - 14:45
Ask the Expert: Vinnie Nobre
Professional development
14:45 - 16:15
Round Table - IA e Educação
Nina da Hora
Instituto da Hora
Priscila Gonsales
Instituto Educadigital
George R. Stein
Pedagog.IA
16:15 - 17:00
Webinar Slot
(webinars are delivered by members of our community who have submitted proposals and have been coached by Troika staff)
21st century skills
Let's CAP in the classroom and in the staffroom!
Zaira Coutinho
AI
Explorando a Ética no Uso das Inteligências Artificiais na Educação
Elivelton Domingos
Pronunciation
Teaching Global Pronunciation: what really matters
Bianca Pinto
Inclusive education
Unlocking Potential: Adaptive Instructional Strategies for Inclusive Special Education
Ariane Valieri & Eduardo Leite
Business English
Redefining Business English: Modernizing Teaching for a Transformed Work World
Carla D'Elia
Ensino de escrita
A escrita como ferramenta de apropriação de espaços escolares
Gabriela Coleta & Patricia Rossi Julio
17:00 - 18:45
3-day courses - day 2
Courses will run throughout the conference and you can choose one of the topics to follow for the three days
Tutor: Mônica Freire
Lesson planning
Day 2:
Discussing and challenging one’s beliefs and practice about lesson planning
Establishing learning outcomes
Analysing elements that should be taken into account when anticipating potential problems in achieving learning outcomes and devising solutions
Planning student-centred lessons
Tutor: Anico Perfler
Designing and delivering Exam Prep courses
Day 2:
The course itself
On the second day, we will delve into ideas and processes that are relevant when planning lessons for student preparation: we will start by considering issues related to (a) placement tests; (b) which types of activities work for different types of tasks; (c) how to introduce the format and skills required for the exam at the beginning of the lessons; (d) how to develop action plans based on continuous assessment and mocks (including a mock monitoring spreadsheet); (e) when to administer mock tests and (f) questions related to feedback that encompasses both the academic and emotional aspects.
Tutors: Akemi Iwasa &
Joyce Fettermann
Accents and identity: fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom
Day 2:
We’ll provide an overview of the concepts of accent variation, accentism, English as a Lingua Franca, and intelligibility, from Jenkins (2020), Bordon (2020) and other authors’ perspectives. We’ll then analyze their potential implications within classroom settings, particularly in terms of fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.
18:50 - 19:50
Plenary Session: José Moran
Como promover uma aprendizagem
criativa, humanizadora e digital
19:50 - 20:00