The English Studies Department of the International Faculty participates in ELTAM Conference
Κολέγιο CITY College
Main Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece
02 October 2017

The English Studies Department of the International Faculty participates in ELTAM Conference

Ms Margarita Kosior, lecturer of the English Studies Department, and Ms Despoina Sarantidou, graduate of the BA (Hons) in English Language and Linguistics delivered a presentation titled “Designing Teaching Materials to Confront Modern Day Slavery” at the one-day conference “All Teachers are Materials Writers”, organised by ELTAM and MaWSIG on 30th September 2017 in Skopje.

The English Studies Department of the International Faculty CITY College participates in ELTAM Conference

During the session, Ms Kosior and Ms Sarantidou presented a project assigned and completed in cooperation with The NO Project within the scope of the course on Evaluation and Design of Teaching Materials during the academic year 2016-17, with the aim of empowering other educators to produce teaching materials on the topic of modern-day slavery.

Ms Kosior and Ms Sarantidou presented a project assigned and completed in cooperation with The NO Project within the scope of the course on Evaluation and Design of Teaching Materials

The session, which comprised three parts, was well received. It started with an introduction to facts on the topic of modern-day slavery and with a brief presentation of The NO Project, an award-winning, global, anti-slavery educational campaign which raises youth awareness on human trafficking and modern day slavery, addressing crimes such as commercial sexual exploitation, domestic servitude, but also forced labour involved in the production of our daily products, such as chocolate, tea or coffee. At this stage, the nature of the collaboration between the English Studies Department and The NO Project was also explained. For the purpose of the assignment in the Evaluation and Design of Teaching Materials unit, students were asked to design a 50-minute lesson for students aged 16+ on the topic of human trafficking and with the aim to raise awareness of the crime of modern-day slavery. The best sample of student work would be uploaded to The NO Project website.

The second part was devoted to the description of the project. During this stage, Ms Sarantidou described the process of creating her lesson that focuses on commercial sexual exploitation.

Ms Sarantidou described the process of creating her lesson that focuses on commercial sexual exploitation

The presentation finished with some recommendations for those who want to become The NO Project ambassadors by creating and contributing their own teaching materials to the cause.

Ms Kosior and Ms Sarantidou were invited to join a panel discussion held at the end of the conference where they replied to questions regarding their session, but also related to materials design and ELT in general. 

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