Online Conference for English Teachers · 17–18 Oct 2026

Program

Two live days you can skim in a minute

All times Kyiv (EEST, UTC+3).

Day 1

9.45 - 10.45 EEST

Dariia Oliinyk

Meaningful Teaching: Making Every Task Count

Session note

What if our students had more reasons to engage with a task than simply finding the correct answer?

In this session, we’ll explore how to make everyday language practice more meaningful, relevant and thought-provoking. We’ll look at practical ways to move beyond textbook scenarios and imaginary characters and bring students’ own experiences, opinions and choices into the classroom.

You’ll explore a range of meaningful topics and ready-to-use task ideas that can help you engage students more deeply in your lessons, encouraging them to think, analyse, reflect and respond rather than simply complete an exercise.

11.00-12.00 EEST

Hugh Dellar

The Curse of Creativity

Session note

The concept of creativity casts a long shadow across the world of EFL. All too often, from the moment we first set foot in the classroom, we are encouraged to become more creative as teachers and to creatively adapt classroom material; we are urged to foster creativity in our learners and told not to let our correction interfere with their creative communication.

In this talk, I shall be critiquing the peculiar construct of creativity that we seem to be so in thrall to. I shall suggest that in all areas of human endeavor it is actually the routine, the formulaic, the predictable and the mundane that underpin the creative process. This is as true for classroom practice as it for language use and thus has serious implications for teachers, trainers and materials writers.

I will consider through relevant anecdotes and personal experiences - the chaos that the pursuit of creativity can wreak on classes, making particular reference to activity and exercise types, language goals and error correction.

I will then move on to counter such well-intentioned waywardness by reasserting the importance of repetition and of the everyday. I believe that both should be central pillars in any methodology that aims to help teachers prepare students for the real world. Indeed, I also aim to persuade those in attendance that true creativity is impossible without this.

The talk will be rooted in my own classroom work and will be illustrated with plenty of practical examples.

12.10-12.40 EEST

Plenary Discussion

Beyond Communicative Teaching: What Actually Makes Students Speak?

Session note

To be added

13.00-14.30 EEST

Nadia Theochari

Intelligence Having Fun: 6 Creative Ways to Energize Your Classroom

Session note

“Creativity is intelligence having fun!” a quote often ascribed to Albert Einstein. A significant aspect of twenty-first century learning is providing opportunities for trying out new ideas, new ways of thinking and problem-solving. But how can I do this and make my class interesting?

6 practical tips on how to promote creativity and have fun in the classroom will be shared in this session.

14.45 - 15.45 EEST

Chris Roland

Pure gold! Classroom management strategies that you will fall in love with.

Session note

A must-see session where Chris will run the length and breadth of his work with tweens, teens and young adults in the ELT classroom to present you with a smorgasbord of techniques, adjustments and considerations that will make you pleased you attended for many teaching years to come.

There will be anecdotes and examples from Chris’ own classes, plus ample time for you to field any questions you have for him. Suitable for new teachers, seasoned veterans, trainers, co-ordinators and school owners alike.

16.00 - 17.00 EEST

Alona Lytovchenko

Claude as a Thinking Partner: A Practical Session for EFL Teachers

Session note

Most teachers use AI as a vending machine - type a request, collect a worksheet.

This session shows what changes when Claude works as a thinking partner instead: one that holds your class context between conversations, argues with your lesson design rather than flattering it, and connects to the documents and notes you already work in.

Projects, memory, connectors and skills, each demonstrated live on a single real planning with a clear line drawn at every stage between what a teacher can hand over and what has to stay theirs. Practical, reproducible, and honest about the limits.

Day 2

10.00-11.00 EEST

Iryna Yefimova

Microlearning for Adult Learners: Small Steps, Tangible Outcomes

Session note

In an era of constant distraction and cognitive overload, how can teachers design lessons that fit tight adult schedules and still lead to meaningful progress?

This session explores microlearning as a focused, flexible and brain-friendly approach to adult language learning. We will challenge common myths around microlearning, examine its key principles and explore how relevant micro-content and focused language input can reduce cognitive overload, strengthen engagement, support retention and turn language learning into a habit.

Drawing on research into memory and attention, the session will introduce practical microlearning techniques for both synchronous and asynchronous learning, demonstrating what microlearning looks like in practice.

11.10-12.10 EEST

Eugenia Kovtun

Making Error Correction Actually Work

Session note

In this session, we’ll rethink error correction as a series of choices rather than an automatic response.

We’ll look at which mistakes are actually worth correcting, when correction supports accuracy and when it gets in the way of communication. We’ll explore practical ways to use different correction techiniques depending on the focus of the lesson.

Most importantly, we’ll consider how to make correction something learners actively engage with rather than something teachers simply do to them.

12.30-13.30 EEST

Chris Reese

When Support Isn't Support: Why Some Lessons Sizzle and Others Fizzle

Session note

Scaffolding is one of the most frequently discussed concepts in teacher education, yet many of the forms of "support" we build into our lessons do little to help learners succeed. So what separates effective scaffolding from well-intentioned but ineffective support?

In this session, we'll explore the cognitive, cultural, and metacognitive factors that are often overlooked when designing or adapting classroom tasks. Through practical examples, participants will examine how seemingly small changes can make activities more accessible while maintaining an appropriate level of challenge.

Participants will leave with a practical framework for analysing and adapting materials so that the support they provide genuinely helps learners succeed.

14.00 -15.00 EEST

Alastair Grant

Mutatis Mutandis: Redefining Education with Neurodivergent Learners Differentiation.

Session note

The word alone can trigger dread: for students, it conjures up extra work and awkward labels; for teachers, late-night planning spirals and impossible checklists. But as neurodiversity moves from the margins to the mainstream, the question is no longer whether we differentiate - it's how we do it without losing our sanity, our standards, or our students.

This session starts from a radical reframe: "Teaching strategies must be extended to include everyone, not differentiated for a few" (Florian & Black-Hawkins, 2011). We will dive into practical, sustainable ways to design lessons that reflect the real progress of learners with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and more, without turning the classroom into a circus of individual plans.Because, as Richler (2024) reminds us, "Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the system - it's about transforming the system itself."

Let's move past ticking boxes and start building classrooms that work for everyone, by design.

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October 17–18 | 2026 · live online. Miss a session? Recordings stay available for 2 months after the conference.

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All conference participants receive an official personalised digital certificate of attendance.

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Speakers

Credentials you can verify

Hugh Dellar

Bachelor in English Literature, Masters in TESOL, CELTA, DELTA (Double Distinction)

Experience

- a teacher and teacher trainer with over twenty-five years' experience in the field;

- the co-founder of the online school and training company Lexical Lab;

- co-authored two five-level General English series, Outcomes and Innovations, both published by National Geographic Learning, as well as one level of the high-school series Perspectives;

- the author of Teaching Lexically (Delta Publishing, 2016);

- has worked on two levels of the new Pearson General English series, Roadmap.

Dariia Oliinyk

C2 Proficiency (Kyiv), C1 Advanced (Kyiv), DELTA M1 (Warsaw), CELTA (Kyiv), TKT Module 1,2 (Kyiv), Masters in English Language and Foreign Literature (Zhytomyr).

Experience

- an English teacher since 2013;

- a teacher trainer since 2017;

- specialising in working with adults and exam preparation;

- a former Academic Director of the Cambridge center (2018-2020);

- an inspiring blogger be_superteacher;

- a conference organiser.

Chris Reese

CELTA, DELTA Module 1,2,3, Bachelor in Anthropology (University of Tennessee)

Experience

- a teacher trainer who has worked with teachers from over 30 countries;

- CELTA, CELT-P/S, DELTA Module 1 Trainer;

- an academic manager with experience managing academic programmes in Ukraine and Thailand;

- a co-author of Exam Booster: ZNO and Exam Booster: ZNO Listening, published in association with Cambridge University Press;

- currently completing an MA dissertation with NILE / the University of Chichester, researching the impact of Agentic AI on young learners’ writing development and learning awareness.

Eugenia Kovtun

CELTA, DELTA (Modules 1,2,3), CAE (C2)

Experience

- an English teacher since 2006;

- a teacher trainer since 2022, having extensive experience in delivering professional development sessions as well as training teachers individually;

- running own teacher development courses as well as General English groups for teacher learners

Alastair Grant

International House Certificate of Advanced Methodology Cambridge DELTA (All Modules) Cambridge Train the Trainer Certificate Bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Philosophy (University of Warwick, UK)

Experience

- an experienced teacher trainer, academic director, ELT author and public speaker;

- a teacher trainer for International House Mexico (runs Delta 3) and for International House Montevideo (runs Delta 1 and 3)

- Head of English at Colegio Nuevo de Las Lomas in Buenos Aires;

- has been part of the Evaluation and Assessment unit at the Ministry of Education for the City of Buenos Aires;

- was a lecturer at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional in Buenos Aires and the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco

- was Director of Studies at International House Montevideo, at International House San Isidro, and at Colegio San Luis in Victoria, Buenos Aires

- was an Educational Consultant for Macmillan Education;

- has delivered teacher training at international conferences, at online conferences, for teachers’ associations, for a variety of publishing houses, universities and at local schools in the UK, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Italy, Romania, Georgia, Serbia, Egypt, and Ukraine, as well as at schools in underprivileged neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires;

- in 2022, founded the Together for Ukraine teacher development project, a series of free talks and webinars to support teachers from Ukraine;

- the co-founder of the We’re All in This Together teacher development project, which was set up to support teachers worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Alona Lytovchenko

DELTA, IH certificates in Teaching Adults, Young and Very Young Learners (IHCTL and IHCYLT)

Experience

- a Teacher Trainer, Methodologist, and EFL teacher with over 20 years of experience in early language education;

- currently based in Poland, where she works in a bilingual kindergarten teaching English to children aged 3–7;

- has contributed to language education at a national level as a member of the Foreign Language Education Working Group within Ukraine’s Ministry of Education initiative Education for Life;

- her professional interests lie at the intersection of language teaching and child development, with a particular focus on creating supportive, well-regulated learning environments for very young learners.

Nadia Theochari

BA in Literature and Language Teaching from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; MSc in International Marketing from the University of the West of Scotland.

Experience

- an EFL teacher, Teacher Trainer, and ELT Consultant with extensive experience in English language teaching;

- currently involved in training projects across a number of countries, working closely with ELT companies and educational institutions;

- travels extensively in her capacity as a Teacher Trainer and ELT Consultant, supporting customers and delivering teacher training;

- has extensive experience in international ELT contexts, with a particular focus on teacher development and professional training.

Chris Roland

Author of five methodology books · Trinity Certificate & Diploma Tutor

Experience

- author of five ELT methodology books, including Structuring Fun for Young Learners in the ELT Classroom (2020) and Taking Your Teaching of Teenagers to the Next Level (2025);

- tutor on Trinity Certificate and Diploma courses;

- a teacher, Teacher Trainer, and methodology writer based in Seville, with extensive experience teaching in mainstream schools, private language academies, and for the British Council in Damascus and Barcelona;

- works with teachers on short intensive courses in the UK, across Europe, and beyond;

- well known for lively, practical teacher training sessions and a hands-on approach to professional development;

- his areas of focus include primary and teenage language teaching, classroom management, task-based learning, humanistic teaching, exam preparation, and language development for teachers;

- creator of the Teaching Teenagers English YouTube channel.

Iryna Yefimova

CELTA-qualified, CAE, MA in English Philology

Experience

- an English teacher, Teacher Trainer, Materials Writer, and Conference Speaker with 16 years of experience in ELT;

- works with teachers and learners and develops practical teaching materials;

- her current professional interests include microlearning, andragogy, and learner autonomy.

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FAQ

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When is the conference?

October 17–18 | 2026 · international online · two live days. All times Kyiv (EEST, UTC+3); sessions run 09:45–15:05 both days.

What if I miss a live session?

All participants get access to recordings for 2 months after the conference.

Do I get a certificate?

Yes — a personalised digital certificate with your name, conference title, 11 academic hours, date, and organisers’ signatures.

Can I buy with colleagues?

Yes — Pair (2 seats) and Team (3 seats). Prefer help choosing? Request a callback under tickets.

How do Pair and Team certificates get each person’s name?

After you buy a Pair or Team ticket we email a short form within one working day so you can send each participant’s full name for their personalised certificate.

Which platform is it, and do I need to install anything?

Sessions run on Zoom. Join from a browser or the Zoom app — nothing else to install. A stable connection and headphones are enough.

How and when do I get the joining link?

We email the Zoom link the day before the conference, and again about an hour before Day 1. Check spam if you don’t see it, or message us on WhatsApp.

Can I get an invoice for my school?

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What is the refund policy?

Full refund until 7 days before the event (by 10 October 2026). After that, tickets are non-refundable. If you miss a live session, recordings are still included for 2 months.

What language are the sessions in?

Sessions are in English.

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The online conference for English teachers who want practical ideas, proven methods and inspiration they can take straight into the classroom.

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Hugh Dellar

Dariia Oliinyk

Chris Reese

Eugenia Kovtun

Alastair Grant

Alona Lytovchenko

Nadia Theochari

Chris Roland

Iryna Yefimova

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