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Creativity — it’s our future.

Subjects

Science, Graphic Design, Social Sciences, Humanities, Web, Arts, Education, Video & Audio, Mathematics

Age Levels

Early Childhood, 6-8, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14, 15-16, 17-18, Post-Secondary

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Creativity — it’s our future.

Learn why creativity is so important in driving student success and how you can promote creativity among students in your classroom. You’ll consider various perspectives on the definition of creativity, see first-hand examples from leading experts and learn many potential ways to incorporate creativity into your own teaching. You’ll also explore examples of creative classrooms and design your own vision of a creative environment using Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom.

Essential Question:

What is creativity, and why is it vital for success in school and beyond?

Learning Objectives:

• Explore and define creativity in the classroom.
• Discover activities and attitudes that cultivate a creative culture in your classroom.
• Incorporate research-based practices that encourage creativity in your lessons.
• Discover the relationships between higher-order thinking skills, confidence and creativity as well as their effects on student achievement.
• Design your personal creativity principles and create your vision of a creative classroom using Photoshop or Lightroom.

Prerequisites:

No prior experience with Photoshop or Lightroom is assumed.

Related Content:

This workshop is part of a six-workshop series entitled “Creativity in Today’s Classroom.”

The workshops in the series are as follows:

1. Exploring Creativity in Today’s Classroom
2. Designing Creativity in the Primary Grades Curriculum
3. Designing Creativity in the Middle Grades Curriculum
4. Designing Creativity in the Upper Grades Curriculum
5. Designing Creativity in the Higher Education Curriculum
6. Assessing Creativity in Today’s Classroom
7. Managing the Creative Classroom
8. Harnessing Mobile Learning for Creativity

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Private lessons with Halina

I understand what YOU need to succeed with English. I know the essential skills you need to develop to become an effective communicator in English.

I would love to teach you one-to-one!

I am available for private lessons on Skype or in my virtual classroom. My online classroom is equipped with a microphone, camera, whiteboard, media player, file sharing, and a variety of other tools.

I have 25 years of experience teaching private English lessons to adults and adolescents from beginning level to advanced.

My students have included business executives, professors, medicine doctors, engineers, university students, primary and secondary school students, and adults learning English for daily life.

I know I can help you make significant, fast ae well as adequate progress in English.

For your program, you can choose any of the topics listed below or suggest additional topics. I will design the lessons to suit your specific needs.

General Conversation Skills

Everyday expressions, idioms, slang, conversation topics and situations, cultural issues, and skill-building in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.

Business English

Interview and CV preparation, oral and written reports and presentations, formal and informal business meetings, entrepreneurial culture, office English, and skill-building in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.

Academic English

Interview preparation, university applications, oral presentations, academic vocabulary, academic writing and research, academic culture, campus English, and skill-building in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.

Exam Preparation

TOEFL, TOEIC, IELTS, CAE, FCE, CPE, PET, SAT, ACT, GRE, and GMAT

Pricing

Single private lessons: $25 per hour or $40 for 90 minutes.

Discounts:

Package of 5 one-hour lessons: $125

Package of 5 90-minute lessons: $200

Package of 10 one-hour lessons: $250

Package of 10 90-minute lessons: $400

Discounts are also available for small group lessons.

Prices include all materials (PDF documents, audio files, and video files) and communication via email or chat.

We can discuss meeting times and payment options during a free consultation.

Please contact me about private lessons.

halina.bazan@pwr.edu.pl

I hope to meet and begin teaching you soon!

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Employability Skills: Skills You Need for a Job
Excellent for all of us.

What are Employability Skills?

Employability skills are those skills necessary for getting, keeping and being successful in a job.

They are the skills and attitudes that enable employees to get along with their colleagues, to make critical decisions, solve problems, develop respect and ultimately become strong ambassadors for the organisation.
Employability or ‘soft skills’ are the foundation of your career building blocks and they are frequently referenced in the media as lacking in school-leavers, graduates and those already in employment.  Organisations spend a lot of time and money training staff, not in job specific areas but in general and basic skills.

In times of high unemployment, employers have more choice of applicants and will favour those with well-rounded employability skills.

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M.A. Halina Ostańkowicz-Bazan

halina.bazan@pwr.wroc.pl

Senior Lecturer at Wroclaw University of Technology,

Foreign Languages Department and Department of Polish for Foreigners, since 1976.

http://www.sjo.pwr.wroc.pl/168019,131.dhtml

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She is  Polish Language Teacher as well as Teacher of English, English Literature, English Drama, Business English and different English Exam Preparation (Cambridge FCE).

Education - University of Wroclaw Poland, Philology, Linguistics Jul 1969.

·       1974 M.A. thesis Efficiency of Polish Phonological Systems, the work was written under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hab. Jerzy Woronczak. The effectiveness of Polish Phonological and Phonemic Structure: evaluation of the Excellent.

·       1979, she started a Ph.D. thesis on; Theoretical Ground Rules of The Stages of Effective Communication. She had not finished her dissertation.

·       July 1994 – Diploma Proficiency British Consul.

·       June 1995 - Diploma of the Polish-American Postgraduate Study of Communication in The Organization and Management, organized by

Wroclaw Polytechnics, the University of Wroclaw and Central Connecticut State University.

Work Experience

at Wroclaw University of Technology

·       October 1^st, 1976 University Assistant

·       1980 Senior Assistant

·       1986 University Lecturer

·       1992 Senior University Lecturer

·       1995 – 2000 Senior Lecturer at Polish-American Postgraduate Study of Communication in The Organization and Management

·       2011 Premium Teacher on WizIQ

·       October 2013 Freelance Senior Lecturer at Wroclaw University of Technology

She has been teaching Polish as a foreign language and English, since 1976.

M.A. Halina Ostańkowicz-Bazan also gives lectures in English on Polish History and Culture for students from all over the world. She has been looking for some inspiration and learning how to teach using new technologies, since 2010.  WizIQ fascinated her since she found the Platform.

In addition to this, Halina is extremely interested in Cultural Diversity. Furthermore, she believes that teaching language using songs is a powerful and enjoyable way of improving communication skills. Her educational approach recommends singing a language, meaning that we don’t speak the language, but we sing it.

Halina is a long-life learner, so she has been working on improving her teaching/learning skills for a very long time.

Additionally, she is for blended learning as well as flipping classroom techniques. She also finds Virtual Classes tremendously exciting and challenging, as they make attendees feel like having a real meeting and discussion. In Halina’s view, Visual quality and non-verbal communication tools, you can share with attendees are particularly significant. Moreover, an opportunity to communicate online with people from around the world is an overwhelming experience as well as an excellent chance to connect for teaching and learning. An occasion to meet and connect with people from the entire Globe is one of the reasons she appreciates online communication, very much.