WEBINAR: Teaching Towards The Young Learners. (Macmillan)

Teaching Towards The Young Learners

By Katie Foufouti

This webinar was devoted to teaching Young learners (about 7-12 years old). She gave a variety of strategies and activities to implement with Young learners groups no matter the places where we work. She talked about how to teach students towards the exams and how important is to test them during preparation. We should test them without imitating the official exam all the time. We should do this testing through games so they can have fun in the classroom while learning at the same time.

  During the webinar, she presented several questions about how we would prepare students for exams. We had to choose a suitable option for us.

  Then, she talked about the assessment and the different ways of collecting information about a learner´s progress and achievement. We should do it every lesson and not only at the end of a unit or at the end of the term. It has a big influence on learners when we make sure that we are giving a positive feedback. We have to be careful of the words we use every time we asses students. All young students should have a feeling of achievement. We should use students´ results to plan the following lessons according to what they need to improve.

  In the last part of the webinar, she presented a set of activities that are commonly used to prepare young learners to sit for the exams (such as Cambridge exams).

  I liked this seminar because it was really interactive and it talked about the importance of assessing students permanently. Although not all of our students may sit for exams, the activities she proposed can be adapted for any classroom context and they seem to be very effective.