Reports by teachers

“ELT SIGNPOSTS 2017“ in Brno Vaida Jucienė and Gintarė Kolesnikova, Tauragė Žalgirių Gymnasium On 8-9 September 2017, we attended the international conference “ELT SIGNPOSTS 2017” organized by the Czech Association of English Teachers and the English Language and Literature Department and held at Masaryk University in Brno. The purpose of the conference was to bring English…

Rita BAKANIENĖ: Workshop “Student-Centered Teaching: Classroom Practice” On 26 April 2017, Vilnius Martynas Mažvydas Pregymnasium, as an institutional partner of the Lithuanian Association of English Language Teachers, invited lower secondary English language teachers to a practical workshop “Student-Centered Teaching: Classroom Practice”. The presenters, senior teachers of English Rita Bakanienė, Eglė Bridikienė, Skaistė Poniškaitienė, Lina Spalvienė ir…

2016 ATECR Conference ELT CZECHLIST: IDEAS FROM THE HEART OF EUROPE was held in Prague on 9 – 10 September. Ingrida Macytė, a senior English teacher from Klaipėda Vytautas Magnus Gymnasium, represented LAKMA at this conference. The conference started with a thought-provoking and highly moving plenary lecture given by Šarka Dohnalová “Language as the Tool…

On 23-27 August 2016, LAKMA in cooperation with the British Council organised a summer school “Teaching Young Teenagers” which took place at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. It welcomed over a hundred English language teachers working at the lower secondary level in Lithuanian schools of general education. The participants had a great opportunity to…

Study of the U.S. Institute on Secondary Education: American Studies through the Lens of Democracy and Citizenship Missoula-Charleston-Washington D.C., May 31-July 5, 2016 by Kristina Urbonienė a teacher of English at Šiauliai “Saulėtekis“ gymnasium A SHORT PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The University of Montana welcomed twenty Secondary school teachers from different countries of the world to the…

PROJECT FAIR VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ySc9abN2FM#t=357 On 4 February 2016, Klaipėda Gedminų Pre-gymnasium hosted a regional event – Educational Project Fair –organized by English teachers Kristina Rudelienė and Anton Petrovskij. 55 projects were presented by students,teachers, trainers and other staff from 30 educational institutions representing Klaipėda, Klaipėda district, Šilutė district and Plungė. The projects covered different levels of activity – school, national and international, including Erasmus+, Lifelong Learning, eTwinning, Nordplus, the EU…

“How many people who live beside us are worth that much a wider circle of people would  learn about their lives? Of course, not one or two. Often we pass by many people not even imagining that one or another person has lived a dignified life …” These are the words from the recently published book “Oral…