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==1) **For those of you who have just started working for the First Kyiv Courses of Foreign Languages Courses in Ternopil, I am wishing to hold onto the positive expectations of your work with us. Because of your positivism, it depends a lot -** ==
 * == the atmosphere around you ==
 * ==the teaching process ==
 * ==your relationships with the staff ==
 * ==your relationships with the students and their parents (if your sts are young learners) ==
 * ==your future career ==
 * ==your life in general. ==

==We are trying to build a safe and friendly community of teachers/lecturers in our firm and create the accommodations for their innovative, creative and effective work. ==

==For those of you who have just started teaching new groups of students (children or teenagers), please start working on the team building strategies. == ==For the sake of creating a sense of 'belonging here', help your students gain the team identity as a group. Help them create: ==
 * ==team's name; ==
 * ==team's motto (slogan); ==
 * ==team's song; ==
 * ==team's classroom rules (no more than 5 rules for a period of time); You might want to create a team contract with them about the behaviour and discipline during the year, if they are willing to discuss it and sign. Children and teens like to know what our adults' boundaries are. Knowing the boundaries sts feel SAFER! ==
 * ==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">team's poster. ==

==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**2) For those of you, who have been working with us for a year or even more, I would like to express gratitude for all your talents in teaching, patience and creativity with no limits.** ==

==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Also, remind your childern or teens of their team's identity and check whether they remember their team's 'ingredients' from the last year. You might want to introduce the rules to new sts in your team, too. It could be that your team needs to accept new classroom rules and cancel those which they have learned to obey habitually after a year.** ==

<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Traditionally, we dedicate each month of the school year to a certain methodological strategy.

 * ==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It helps us get united as a teachers' community. ==
 * ==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It helps us overcome the teaching issues together. ==
 * ==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It helps us look for the unique ways of implementing the strategy in the context of your individual sts' group. ==

==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The end of September 2011 we dedicate to MOTIVATION in learning/studying English as a Second Language (Please, find and study a Power Point presentation file under 'Motivation_in ELL'.) ==

==<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Those of you who teach English to adults, please, imply this strategy into the content of your Coffee Break in late September - early October 2011. ==

<span style="background-color: #e8e291; color: #0700ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**PS Feel free to initiate a new post for discussions.**
|| = The pictures below are of our new English teachers for the school year 2011/2012: =



** Miss Maryana S. Miss Olena P. **
= **Miss Iryna S.** Miss Valentyna D. =

= Miss Zoya K. =

= OCTOBER 2011: Reinforcing Students' Motivation in Learning English as a Second Language.= =//'In Love with English//' projects.= = 21 OCTOBER 2011: Inter-Regional Teachers Development Seminar for the English and Supervisors 'Equipping Teachers with Quality Skills, Winning Students in Number', a joint project of First Kyiv Courses of Foreign Languages and British Council Ukraine. A training workshop //' The Why, the What and the How in Language Education', //= = run by Sasha Shalenko, a Partnership and Projects manager and a leading trainer of the seminar. =

**21 October 2011** (Group Picture: participants, supervisors, directors and a top trainer Sasha Shalenko (British Council Ukraine)

**21 October 2011 (Closer Focus: some part of participants)**
 * 21 October 2011 (another part of participants) **

[] (English teachers are encouraged to get registered to access the videos).
 * NOVEMBER 2011: ** **Reinforcing Speaking Strategies: Teachers to Watch 9 short videos 'Teaching Speaking' on**

**Model Lessons Series:** Miss Oksana T. Date: 08/11/2011: Model Lesson Theme: Transportation (Photos) Teenagers (Form 7, 8, 9, 10)



Miss Oksana T. Date: 14/11/2011; Model Lesson Theme: 'Describing People' (Photos); Children (Form 2 and 3);



Miss Olena P., Date: 21/11/2011; Model Lesson Theme: 'Made in Japan'; Teenagers (Form 8, 9 and 10)






 * Miss Iryna S ., Date: 29/11/2011; Model Lesson Theme: 'The Continent of Contrasts'; (Form 8 and 9)**


 * 25 November 2011 (06:00 pm) - 'Open House Day' and '2011 New Students' Inauguration' Programme. 'Twinkle, Twinkle 10 Great Stars Show' with participation of Teenagers' and Children's Groups. **

** Director's Speech **




 * Globik's Greetings to the New Students who are going to be inaugurated. **
 * Miss Maryana and her //Starlike Teddy Bears// (New Styudents' Inauguration Ceremony). **


 * Miss Maryana and her Starlike Teddies **


 * Miss Iryna and her //Little Suns (New// Students' Inauguration Ceremony). **


 * Miss Iryna and her //Special Teens// (New Students' Inauguration Ceremony). **


 * Miss Oksana T. during her New Students' Inauguration Ceremony. **


 * Miss Tetiana Z. during her new students' inauguration ceremony. **


 * Miss Tanya during her New Students' Inauguration Ceremony. **





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The 'Twinkle, Twinkle 10 Great Stars' ** show begins... 'Starlike Teddy Bears', Miss Maryana and Dima, our IT technologist, opening it to the song "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." (This symbolized how adults of our firm are helping the students to reach to the stars.) **=====

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 * Snow White (Miss Maryana S.) and her Starlike Teddies are singing a song 'Hello' **




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 * //Smarties// are singing and performing a song 'Green Grass Grew All Around' for the little children. **


 * Leopard (Miss Oksana T.) and her students are performing a song 'Bingo!' **


 * 'Bingo!' **




 * // Cinderella (Miss Tetiana Z.) // and students' performance **




 * //Snow White// (Miss Maryana) and her //Crazy Teens presenting 'A Friend Is...' and 'The News Around the World'.// **

**Cinderella, the Prince, the King and the Queen.**
 * //The Snow Queen// (Miss Iryna) and her students presenting a 'Cinderella' play in a modern version. **
 * Reader. **
 * Modern Cinderella **
 * Ciderella and her Fairy Godmother **


 * 'You do the Hocky-Pocky' ** (Miss Valentyna's students.)


 * Galina S **** ergeevna (Miss Valentyna D.) and her students. **


 * //Steve Jobs// **(presented by Miss Olena P.) and her students' presentation '10 Special Things about Ternopil.'





= A Series of Miss Maryana's Model Lessons = 02 December 2011 Theme: //'This Is How the Pre-Schoolers Are.'//