ADAPTING YOUR COURSEBOOK FOR LEARNERS WITH SpLDs

Dr. Anne Margaret Smith has been teaching English for 25 years and is also dyslexia specialist tutor. Her company, ELT well, aims to bring these two fields of education closer together, by sharing good practice from both sides. Anne Margaret teaches on the MA TESOL at the University of Cumbria and was part of the DysTEFLproject which was awarded a British Council ELTon last year.
Anastasia Metallinou (BA Hons, MEd) is an experienced English language teacher and dyslexia (SpLDs) specialist. She is the co-author of English Sounds Fun (www.englishsoundsfun.com) which is the first highly structured and self-contained teaching method designed specifically for dyslexic learners of English as a foreign language. Anastasia is also a teacher trainer and presents her work in numeral EFL and dyslexia conferences internationally.

It is a hands-on workshop designed for foreign language professionals in Greece - teachers at public and foreign language schools, private lessons teachers, directors of studies, school owners who are interested in Dyslexia and LD.

Working with a group that includes a dyslexic learner may seem difficult; perhaps you are worried that your dyslexic student will require a lot of extra materials that you will not have enough time to prepare. This workshop will reassure you that with a bit of clever organisation and some small changes to your classroom management, you can keep using the same textbook, and still make sure that all your learners can be included.
After establishing what the main challenges are likely to be for a dyslexic learner using a typical EFL course book, we will offer an overview of some general principles that will help you to ‘work smarter – not longer’! Finally, there will be an opportunity to apply these principles to your own teaching practice.

Please bring with you a text book that you are currently using or that you are familiar with.

Διάρκεια: 3 hours
Register for this workshop until 24 August 2016 online
Κόστοςσυμμετοχής: 30€
Included in the fee:
• Participation in the workshop
• Certificate of Attendance
• Coffee Break