This document outlines the schedule and sessions for a workshop on empowering English teachers held from March 12-15, 2018 at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru. The workshop featured opening and closing plenary sessions as well as simultaneous morning and afternoon sessions over the four days, led by presenters from various educational institutions. Session topics included active engagement strategies, the effect of teacher personality on learning, alternative assessment, practical classroom games, teacher development, building a personal brand, innovation from an English Acquisition Research perspective, bringing language to life, and speaking skills.

1. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Facultad de letras y Ciencias Humanas. Departamento Académico de Lingüística
CURSO/TALLER DE ACTUALIZACIÓN DOCENTE EN INGLÉS 2018
UPDATING TEACHERS OF ENGLISH WORKSHOP: UNMSM 2018
“Empowering English Teachers in Language Teaching”
Monday, March 12th, 2018
7:00-9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00-9:30 a.m. Opening Mg. José Carlos Ballón Vargas.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Science.
9:30-11:00 a.m.
Opening Plenary
Lisa Wakefield (RELO Andes)
Connecting Students to Communicative Language
Through Active Engagement Strategies
Auditorium1 Antonio Russo Delgado
11:00-11:15 a.m. Book Fair / Break
11:15-1:00pm Lisa Wakefield (RELO Andes)
How teacher personality effects an English
classroom and student learning
Auditorium 1 Antonio Russo Delgado
Tuesday, March 13th, 2018 (Simultaneous Sessions)
9:00-10:45 a.m.
Yony Cárdenas Cornelio
(UNMSM)
Alternative Assessment
Auditorium 1 Antonio Russo Delgado
Gabriela Rodríguez del Águila
(Richmond Peru)
Easy and practical games in the EFL class
Auditórium 2 Alfredo Torero
10:45-11:15pm Book Fair / Break
11:15-1:00pm María Esther Linares (ESAN/USIL)
How do teachers continue to learn and grow? -
Understanding teacher development
Auditorium 1 Antonio Russo Delgado
Manuel Salas (UNMSM)
It’s the 21st
Century. Are you building your
personal brand as an English Teacher?
Auditorium 2 Alfredo Torero
Wednesday. March 14th, 2018
9:00-10:45 a.m.
Ralph Grayson (British Council-Peru)
Innovation in the Classroom from an EAR
Perspective
Auditorium 1 Antonio Russo Delgado
Leonor Marin (IATEFL-Peru)
Raising effectiveness in MFL : Bringing
language to life in our classrooms
Auditorium 2 Alfredo Torero
10:45-11:15pm Book Fair / Break
11:15-1:00pm Leonardo Mercado (Euroidiomas)
Speaking at Its Best!
Auditorium 1 Antonio Russo Delgado
Thursday, March 15th, 2018 Simultaneous Sessions
9:00-10:15 a.m.
Angelica Natera (LASPAU, affiliated with Harvard University)
Innovación en Enseñanza y Aprendizaje
Auditorium 1 Antonio Russo Delgado
Jeancarlo García Guadalupe (UNE)
Validación y Confiabilidad de Instrumentos de
Evaluación en el Área de English
Auditórium 2 Alfredo Torero
10:15-10:30pm Book Fair / Break
10:30-12:15pm Closing Plenary
Leonardo Mercado (Euroidiomas)
Breaking New Ground in ELT: 21st Century Innovation
Auditorium 1 Antonio Russo Delgado
12:15-1:30 p.m. RAFFLE
Organiza: Dr. Jorge Esquivel Villafana. Director Dpto. Lingüística.
Mg. Yony Cárdenas Cornelio (Coordinator) yony1cc@hotmail.com Celular: 979325419 (Entel)
Inscripciones: 2018cursodeingles@gmail.com Web www.actualizacioningles.wordpress.com
Ingreso Peatonal: Calle Germán Amezaga Nº375. Lima 1. Ciudad Universitaria UNMSM (Puerta 3)
Ingreso vehicular: Av. Venezuela (Puerta 1) ó Av. Colonial (Puerta 8). Ciudad Universitaria UNMSM