E-Teacher Alumna Olga Katsap Attends Conference, Shares Best Practices
Olga Katsap, secondary school teacher from St. Petersburg, successfully completed the E-teacher course in Special Education in 2014. She is using the skills and knowledge acquired during the course while teaching blind and visually impaired students at her school and conducting workshops for teachers. On September 25-27, 2014, she participated in the Umbrella conference in Kolomna where she shared her experiences with the broader Russia ELT community.
Access and FLEX Alumni participate in Campers-to-Campers Program
On October 14, three Access (Evgeniya Astashina, Maxim Marchenkov, Angelina Skibindkaya) and two FLEX (Nadya Abadhina and Ekaterina Dobromyslova) alumni were selected as semi-finalists for the Campers-to-Campers project, a joint project of the Orlyonok Children’s Center in Russia, U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and a number of American camps. Video on Campers-to-Campers program can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBRWgrz_aN0
Multi-sides of “Appreciating Diversity” alumni project
On November 29, a team of USG alumni – English language teachers from 5 cities in Russia – launched an eight session series of webinars under the theme “Developing Materials for Teaching Cultural Diversity”. This group had previously been selected as winners of an Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund grant for their proposal to develop English language teaching materials on tolerance and diversity. The team has created a Facebook page, “Diverse Russia” https://www.facebook.com/groups/appreciatingdiversity/ that highlights their activities. The “Teaching Tolerance and Celebrating Diversity through Video” contest previously sponsored by this group drew the attention of many teachers in Russia and the PPPs and videos of participants from big and small cities are available on the this site.
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