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Preparatory Class, EDS Plovdiv, 2008-2009
Jan 6th, 2009
Macmillan Workshop 13, Bits and Pieces
Dec 12th, 2008, Sofia
Back to school - Preparatory Class, EDS Plovdiv, 2008-2009
Dec 8th, 2008
Macmillan Workshop No.12 - ICT in the classroom
Friday, Nov 21st, 2008
Macmillan workshop 11, Sofia, Friday October 3rd, 2008
Teaching Culture with a small 'c'... read more here
New course for teachers on creating school links through the curriculum
Plovdiv, July 9th to 17th, 2009, read more here
Macmillan Workshop 10, Sofia, the last for this school year
June 19th, 2008
Project Work in the classroom... read more here
Macmillan Workshops 9 was in Haskovo
June 12th, 2008
Biology, Physics, Chemistry and English Teachers come together... read more here
Macmillan Workshops 7 and 8 were in Burgas and Varna
29th - 30th May, 2008
Two really great groups of teachers and sunny weather on the Black Sea coast... read more here
Back to School...
I went back to teach at the English / German School in Plovdiv, February, 2008
It was great to be back ... read more here
Macmillan Workshops 4, 5 and 6
The fourth and fifth Macmillan Workshops in Bulgaria took place in Sofia and number 6 was in Stara Zagora. more here
Macmillan workshop no. 3, Blagoevgrad
March 21st, 2008
Same vcabulary theme different context, read more here
School visit and Macmillan workshop no. 2, Sofia,
March 14th, 2008
A visit to the Ivan Zlatarski School for two lessons and a well-attended vocabulary workshop, read more here
Macmillan, Bulgaria organise TT
I'm delighted to announce that Macmillan are funding a tour of 18 workshops for teachers around the country in 2008-2009.
British Council Bulgaria organises one-day trainings for teachers of all subjects on ICT in education.
Dates: 9, 10, 16, 17 February 2008 more information here and application form here
16th National BETA-IATEFL Conference, 19 – 20 May 2007, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
It's great to be back in Bulgaria and to be able to take part in the latest BETA conference as a resident... more here ...
English Teachers’ Conference Bulgaria – CLIL on the rise.
It was the 15TH National Conference of the Bulgarian English Teachers’ Association, www.beta-iatefl.hit.bg, in Bulgaria last week, 13 – 14 May 2006. The weather was glorious and the conference had a large CLIL presence... more here.
Communicating Science in Bulgaria, 25 – 29.3.2005
As part of initiatives to promote Science Communication in Bulgaria the British Council organised a Play Science Festival at the Sofialand pleasure park in Bulgaria’s capital, 25.3.2005. More here.
Summer Course - Varna '2004 Here.
Description
of English Teaching
in 32 Language School “St. Kl. Ochridski “
In the curriculum of 32 Language School the two foreign languages are English and Russian.
English is taught from the first Grade. The recent textbook used in the primary school is “BRAVO“. During these four years pupils are taught to write, understand and produce elementary dialogues in English. The tenses they are acquainted with are the Present Simple, the Present Continuous, the Past Simple and the Future Simple.
The 5 - 7 Graders continue studying English with BRAVO textbooks and Venture textbooks as well (Narodna Prosveta Publishing House). In my view, at the end of the 7 Grade most students are fluent enough to speak and write in English.
According to the National Educational Curriculum in Bulgaria after the 7 Grade students who would like to study at a Language School should pass admission tests and successful candidates become students in the so called “Preparatory Class” .During this academic year students are taught extensively in English and at the end of the year they are supposed to pass an exam which is to test whether students have acquired English and are able to speak fluently in it. Successful students from the preparatory class continue their education in the school. English is taught not only in English classes but subject classes as well (e.g. Chemistry, Biology, History in English). The teaching process is rarely bilingual – classes are predominantly in the target language. The content subjects taught in English in our school are Chemistry and Physics. History and Geography used to be taught in English in the past. The problem is that it is difficult to find out teachers who are specialists in their own subject and fluent English speakers as well.
The model of English Language Schools is quite good but the major problem they are facing now is the lack of qualified and good English teachers. Our school also experiences such difficulties.
Marianna Dencheva
EYLS Teacher
Dear colleagues,
I am really grateful to have the chance to participate in the Science Across the Balkans Workshop in Plovdiv and I hope that such workshop will turn into a tradition and will contribute to integration of the efforts of all teachers in Europe as well as to improve the efficiency of their work.
In Bulgaria extensive teaching in the foreign language began only in the early 1990s. The process triggered off with the establishment of private primary and secondary schools as well as with the introduction of language learning from year 1 in the state sector. Nowadays almost all academic subjects, mainly in private schools and 3 to 4 subjects in state schools, are taught through the medium of English. The most frequently exploited subjects are Chemistry, Geography and History although there are also examples of teaching Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and even Arts.
At university level teaching in the foreign language (French, German) occurs in several universities but those with teaching in English are very few. Courses for students preparing for teaching in a foreign language are practically missing.
As a teacher of Physics through English at a secondary school, my experience is with 15-18 year old students in the space of 7 years. The curriculum is very demanding all the more that in Bulgaria there are no uniform criteria and methodology for teaching a subject through the medium of a foreign language. There is also no official textbook in Physics written in English.
An important factor of successful teaching Physics through English is the high competitive admission at our school. The students are smart, well-informed and with great potential, which requires good preparation for the lessons. Moreover, it is a real challenge for me and provides good motivation to continue. In teaching Physics a peculiarity is the detailed explanation of the matter, which as a rule is felt very difficult by the students, as well as its application in problem solving. There are two radically different approaches from methodical point of view. In teaching the theory the chief goal for me is my students to comprehend the main relations and to acquire the terminology (both Bulgarian and English) so that subsequently to be able to describe the processes and phenomena under study and to reason out qualitative problems. In solving quantitative problems some other skills are needed - the acquisition of additional skills and knowledge: the algorithm as well as some mathematical terminology.
All this makes my task in class very challenging. To support the learning process I have written a textbook in Physics in English, which is in use in our school. I have always tried to improve my teaching methods so I have made attempts to include some approaches typical of foreign language teaching in teaching Physics, for instance Cooperative Learning. The results are promising.
In conclusion I look forward to meeting colleagues from Bulgaria and abroad in order to share experience and ideas.
Silvia Marinova
32nd School, Sofia, Bulgaria
Physics Teacher in Bulgarian
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