Sarah Smith & Claire Steele

Curious and Creative: Engaging Young Learners in Meaningful and Creative Tasks

Creativity is the ability to use imagination, to wonder and to be curious about the world around us, and to solve problems. In this session, we’ll explore what creativity is, and how to promote creative thinking skills in meaningful, student-initiated task design to pique our students’ curiosity. We break down the process of creative task design and coursebook adaptation to help you plan.

Anna Parr

Teaching more than English: Multi-literacies in young learners’ classroom

In this practical session we are going to investigate a number of ready-to-use classroom activities that are based on visually, digitally and culturally relevant real-life materials which engage young learners in authentic communication and enhance their understanding not only of the English language itself but also of the contemporary world that surrounds them. 

Marcela Cintra

Empathy and confidence in the YLS classroom

Before communicative confidence always comes the emotions beneath that hold it up. To enable children to communicate in English with more confidence, this session will discuss ideas for teachers to support the development of socio-emotional skills to encourage learners to build a more empathetic world.