May, 22, 2008

In May, 2008, my colleagues and I initiated a city seminar for EFL teachers. We cooperated with the City Teacher Training Center and they were really kind and helped to organize a 5-hour seminar for the teachers from all the districts in Kharkiv.

There were 2-3 teachers from every district. The seminar consisted of three parts, I conducted one of them. My presentation was called "TEA-07, personal experience of taking part in international educational programs".


The teachers were really enthusiastic and a lot of different issues were raised and discussed!!!

Sept, 2007 -May, 2008
Pen-Pal Project

In 2007 I became the National Winner of the TEA program and thanks to this  had an opportunity to take part in 6-week-workshop at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Besides  other very interesting things we had a field practice in American summer schools and later after my coming back to Ukraine
 with my colleague, Kenneth McCreary
English Teacher at Washington-Lee High School we started a pen-pal project between our two schools. The project continued from September to May, 2008. More than 80 students from Washington-Lee High School and approximately the same number from the Ukrainian Kharkiv Private Lyceum Professional took part in it. Mr.McCreary and me moderated the pen-pal exchange, by the end of the project the students started communicating on their own. Many of them have become real friends.


In spring we had the Week of Foreign Languages in the Lyceum and my students made some posters about their American pen-pals. Here are some of them:

Dr. Kate Reynolds's workshop

May, 14, 2008
On May, 14, 2008 our ELT Professional team was really honoured by Dr.Reynolds, who kindly agreed to carry out a workshop for the teachers of the lyceum and some other schools.

The topic of the seminar was "Instructional Conersation". Dr.Reynolds also conducted a demo lesson with the fourth year students of the lyceum...  


The whole event was extremely interesting and usefull for all the participants!
We would like to thank Dr.Reynolds for her highly professional workshop!

Diploma Projects

May, 17, 2008
Every year the students of the linguistic department defend their diploma projects in their fourth year, i.e. in the 11th grade. This year has not been an exception :) About 30 students presented their papers in PPP format. The topics were very different and that made the defence even more interesting!

In this picture you can see Denis Zhukov. His paper was about the world politics after September 11th ...
In the next picture you can see Ksenya Tridub who was talking about the history of hospitality and hotel business.

That Saturday was  really a bright and successful event!

So I would like to start by telling you about the place which has become our home for so many wonderful years. This is Kharkiv Private Lyceum Professional. You can see it in the picture.  Here is the site of the Lyceum and you can find out more it here: http://www.licey.kharkov.ua Though unfortunately the site  has not been finished yet.
So here we have been working hard and having a good time, sharing sorrows and joys, arguing and agreeing...

First steps.

    So today I am trying to start a new blog! The blog about Our Professional and about different activities which have been taking place in Kharkiv and not only :)
    This blog is for ELT professionals and all those who are interested in learning languages and of course teaching them. We would like to share our experience and to make new friends!