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Agenda
  • Session 1: Choose your own professional development adventure with Mark Richard
  • Session 2: Learning with concepts in the young learner and pre-school English classroom with Rob Peacock
  • Session 3: Snap and speak: Using photos in communicative tasks with Ross Thorburn
Presenters
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Mark Richard
Mark Richard is OUP’s Senior Professional Development Consultant. He lives in Taipei, Taiwan with his wife and story-loving daughter. He has 23 years of ELT teaching and training experience across continents, cultures, and types of institutions. He is curious about everything and seeks to ignite his students’ curiosity as a first step in building their motivations and capacities to develop as independent language learners. He is currently studying for a postgraduate degree in Digital Education to explore his thoughts about the roles of technology in language teaching and learning. 
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Rob Peacock
Rob Peacock currently works at Oxford University Press as an Educational Services Consultant. He has spent over 20 years in Japan teaching students of all ages as well as providing teacher support and workshops. 
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Ross Thorburn
Ross Thorburn is a teacher trainer, materials writer, and consultant. Ross started his career in language teaching in 2006. He holds a Trinity DipTESOL, a Trinity FTCL TESOL, an IDLTM from the University of Queensland and a master’s degree in Language Education from NILE. Ross is also a keen researcher and has published research articles on teacher training, teacher motivation, task-based learning and young learners. In 2020, Ross published his first book, Inside Online Language Teaching. His second book, Unlocking Success on the Duolingo English Test was published in 2023. He is the host of the TEFL Training Institute podcast.