Getting Creative with Insight and Life Vision
Webinar
- Speaker:
Jeremy Bowell - Date and Time:
28th March 2023, 16:00 – 17:30 CET (UTC+1)
In this talk, I’ll begin by briefly introducing OUP’s secondary courses, Life Vision and Insight, looking at what they offer and some of the key features to help you in the language classroom in 2023. We’ll then move on to the topic of creativity. We’ll discuss what it means and what we can do to foster a more creative learning environment. Finally, we’ll try out some practical ideas and activities for the classroom that aim to get our students thinking and acting more creatively.
Overview
Getting Creative with Insight and Life Vision
In this talk, I’ll begin by briefly introducing OUP’s secondary courses, Life Vision and Insight, looking at what they offer and some of the key features to help you in the language classroom in 2023. We’ll then move on to the topic of creativity. We’ll discuss what it means and what we can do to foster a more creative learning environment. Finally, we’ll try out some practical ideas and activities for the classroom that aim to get our students thinking and acting more creatively.
Speaker
Jeremy Bowell has been working in the English language teaching field for over 20 years. He taught English in the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany, before joining the ELT division of Oxford University Press in 2004. He spent nine years at the Press working as an editor on international secondary course books, as well as taking on a number of presenting and teacher training assignments across Europe. He left OUP in 2013 to pursue a career as an author, and since then he has written for a number of OUP courses including Solutions, English Plus, Synchronize, and Life Vision. He has also written graded readers, children’s and young adult fiction. He lives in a village outside Oxford and in his free time, enjoys cinema, gardening, running, paddle boarding and baking. But not always at the same time.
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