Charles Goodger at FunSongs workshop in Riga
During the first two weeks of June 75 Latvian teachers of English participated in a series of teacher development workshops at the Kunieru Teacher Training Centre in Riga, Latvia.
Charles Goodger was invited by the Local Education Authority to run a series of sessions:
- Communicative Teaching
- Music and mime, rhythm and rhyme - The FunSongs Approach
- CLIL: writing and teaching an action song module
The encounters provided an interesting insight into how English is taught in Latvian primary schools and gave teachers the opportunity to try out some new approaches based on FunSongs action songs. "It was a great experience - I met some really interesting people," says Charles. "The level of enthusiasm was high and despite one or two exceptions language competence was good, better than the average among Italian teachers of English."
Charles hopes to repeat this cycle of workshops in other Latvian and Baltic cities soon.
Further photos can be viewed on Facebook.
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