When we launched the first TW!ST conference in 2014, we made a firm promise: “If we survive the next 5 autumns with the TW!ST, our 5th birthday will be a bit of a refreshing surprise!” Fast-forward to November 2018 and here we are, keeping our promise! This year we invite fewer guests to a shorter but juicier event in a brand new Warsaw location.

The key words for TW!ST’18 are:

• secrets
• surprises
• inspiration
• networking
• future
• brand new voices
• a brand new format
• a brand new venue
• and … our TW!ST get-together this November marks the beginning of the TW!ST celebration which is going to last … for months! Yes!

No, sorry. Not any more 🙂

In truth, we grew a bit tired of the traditional conference format. The distance between the presenters and participants. The choices about which sessions to miss. The probability of seeing the same session/presenter again. The confusion whether to follow the familiar names or promising topics. The big question mark above our heads: Will the content translate into my own context: my students, my courses, my teaching reality?

The rave reviews of TEDelicious, an interactive event we organized a few years back, made us review the success of that memorable Sunday. We did our homework! What made the experience so special that you keep reminding us of TEDelicious today, after so many years?

TEDelicious was rich in interaction, engaging and activating for everyone. It was shorter, more cosy, with different group activities, with contributions from participants, with classroom-ready ideas alongside the out-of-the-classroom inspiration that you could develop into your own lessons – exactly as you wish. It was easy to customize TEDelicious ideas to your personal teaching situation. You could move the chairs easily so people could face each other while talking. And it was new. And it was optimistic. And it was inclusive.

It wasn’t a conference. It was an inspiring experience.

We have extracted all the best features of TEDelicious and come up with a brand new format for tw!st’18: This year, you are invited to participate in the first ever ELT inspirience for which we selected an amazing location. What’s an inspirience?

Have a look at what to expect at tw!st’18.

The presenters – all new voices never heard at tw!st or at any other ELT conference this season – will be introduced next week.

tw!st’18 is for you if:

• you are a novice teacher, finding your feet in the classroom
• you are an experienced teacher, looking for inspiration
• you need to fight your professional burnout
• you want to develop your ELT expertise and teach better
• you need better lessons that help students remember new language
• you need to prepare students for Cambridge exams (incl. YLE, PET, KET, First, Advanced, Proficiency)
• you are looking for ready-made lesson ideas
• you are curious about how other teachers prepare their lessons
• you teach young learners
• you teach teens
• you teach adults
• you teach individual students
• you teach groups
• you teach online
• you need new contacts in the ELT industry
• curiosity is your middle-name

DEFY TEACHING GRAVITY  | Pacesetter Plenary

Find out more about Joanna by clicking on her photo!

DEFY TEACHING GRAVITY  | Pacesetter Plenary

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DEFY TEACHING GRAVITY  | Pacesetter Plenary

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LESSONS EVERYWHERE | ELT flash talks

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LESSONS EVERYWHERE | ELT flash talks

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LESSONS EVERYWHERE | ELT flash talks

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LESSONS EVERYWHERE | ELT flash talks

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This year we don’t have one theme. We have several! Why not?

You decide which theme makes your teaching heart sing!

Where do you (and other teachers) look for lesson inspiration? Can you see lessons all around you ?

How do you turn inspiration into a lesson idea?

How do you boost your own creativity?

When did you last get an aerial view of your teaching?

When did you last try to get out of your teaching rut?

Which teaching habits of yours would you like to kick?

What do you look for in a  conference for teachers? Is what you usually find there enough?

What’s the alternative?

What can you squeeze out of 4 hours spent with a diverse crowd of teachers?

When?

November 25th, 2018 

Sunday

10:00 – 14:00

Where?

The first ELT conference to be held in a co-creating space!

Brain Embassy  – this place is an adventure in its own right! You can’t miss it!

Brain Embassy 

Al. Jerozolimskie 181b

Warsaw

HOW TO GET

Al. Jerozolimskie 181b (right opposite CH Atrium Reduta & right next to CH The Blue City and the shops are open on this Sunday!)

Bus stops (BERESTECKA 02 or CH REDUTA 01): 127,158, 187, 191, 517, N01, N35, N85  (a 15-minute bus ride from Dw. Centralny + a 5-minute walk)

Parking: free in CH Atrium Reduta or 2 PLN/hour at the Brain Embassy car park  if you stamp the ticket at the Brain Embassy reception

Tickets

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