The educational model for anything (also languages) needs to change to fit into today's world. There are plenty of alternatives but how about entertaining one of them: bringing the act of teaching languages to the background while letting students solve great problems in the foreground? Because the languages are not about the grammar. They are about communication.

1. dr Agnieszka Szóstek
Future-ready!

2. what are you
afraid of?

3. Proces ewaluacji
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DISCLAIMER
you do everything to the best of your abilities
but the times are changing
and require new approach

5. …let’s do nothing
so we don’t destroy
what we have…

7. 1914 – a multiple choice test
is invented
‘This is a test of lower order thinking
for the lower orders.’
Prof. Frederick J. Kelly

8. 1918 – everybody is obliged to get
basic education in order to
create a consistent system
of processing students

9. ‘Building a person’s character is just as
important as reading, writing and arithmetic.
By instilling values such as obedience to
authority, promptness in attendance, and
organizing the time according to bell ringing
helps students prepare for future
employment.’
Horace Mann

10. ‘Building a person’s character is just as
important as reading, writing and arithmetic.
By instilling values such as
obedience to authority,
promptness in attendance, and
organizing the time according to bell ringing
helps students prepare for future
employment.’
Horace Mann

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who is the employee
of the future?

12. conscientious, caring, engaged, honest,
empathic, supportive

13. conscientious, caring, engaged, honest,
empathic, supportive, creative, goal-oriented,
able to improvise

14. conscientious, caring, engaged, honest,
empathic, supportive, creative, goal-oriented,
able to improvise, interdependent, informed,
proactive, innovative

15. conscientious, caring, engaged, honest,
empathic, supportive, creative, goal-oriented,
able to improvise, interdependent, informed,
proactive, innovative, strategic, able to lead…

16. conscientious, caring, engaged, honest,
empathic, supportive, creative, goal-oriented,
able to improvise, interdependent, informed,
proactive, innovative, strategic, able to lead…
———> obedient?

17. conscientious, caring, engaged, honest,
empathic, supportive, creative, goal-oriented,
able to improvise, interdependent, informed,
proactive, innovative, strategic, able to lead…
———> obedient? not really…

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STUDENTS

33. Proces ewaluacji
pracowników:
podsumowanie
warsztatów
dr Agnieszka Szóstek
what does it have to do
with us?

34. How about pushing the act of teaching languages
from the foreground to the background,
while in the foreground students solve problems
that keep them engaged and passionate?

35. …let’s do nothing
so we don’t destroy
what we have…

36. …let’s do it
better!!!

44. Thank you!
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