The recent technological advancement has brought some new challenges that we as teachers have to face. Not only do we have to teach the language itself, but we also need to introduce our students to various methods of organising their knowledge, show them how to categorise it as well as guide them so that they gradually learn how to distinguish facts from opinions and analyse data. My workshop will provide you with some very practical ideas on how to blend all these crucial skills together, so that children develop cognitive skills along with their language fluency. This will make them more and more conscious language users as years go by. A lot of my examples will come from Academy Stars, a great new primary learner series published by Macmillan.

Malgorzata Mroz

I've been teaching English for over 10 years now and I just can't get enough! Since I like challenging myself as a teacher,  you will never see me giving the same lesson twice. My latest professional  interest is developing cognitive skills in Young Learners as well as designing low-pep activities that can be easily adjusted to any level.

My greatest passion  (apart from teaching) is ... learning. I love these moments when I acquire new skills, whether it's knitting, fixing a car engine or mastering a new grammatical structure of an exotic   language. That's why I've tried hundreds of things in my life (including tap dancing and hairdressing) and I'm longing for more.