An online forum for teachers "Virtual teaching: skill of the future?" was successfully delivered on 21 January 2021. It brought together more than 2000 teachers from Ukraine and other countries.
ELT experts shared their views on effective virtual/remote learning and teaching focusing on how to make a virtual lesson interactive and engaging for learners. Teachers revealed an interest in the topic and asked experts a lot of interesting and challenging questions.
You can find presentation slides of our four experts below (hyperlink on the name of the presentation):
- Katherine Martinkevich, EFL teacher of the British Council English Online
Type and balance of synchronous and asynchronous tasks and activities
- Natalia Ponomariova, facilitator of the Online Teacher Community platform
Tools to make lessons interactive and engaging
- David Wright, Director, UK Safer Internet Centre
Online Child Protection – How Schools should protect children online
- Cristiana Osan, moderator of the Online Teacher Community platform
How to develop higher order thinking skills in virtual environment