Agnieszka Krajewska

• Title/experience:

  MA English;
  working as an English teacher in Private Lyceum in Wałbrzych, Teacher Training College in Wałbrzych, and now in HSPS in Jelenia Góra;
  workshops for INSETT Legnica and JODM Jelenia Góra for in-service and pre-service English teachers;
  teacher trainer for Pearson Longman.

• Educational background :

  MA from University of Wrocław
  Young Learners' Teacher Training Course for Educators - The British Council and CODN Warsaw

• Research interests/professional interests:

  Teaching young learners (multisensory approach, NLP, storytelling; Art in ELT);
  academic writing (pre-writing techniques, publishing and editing newspapers)
  accelerated learning; educational kinesiology;
  Art in ELT
  ICT in ELT

• Private interests:

  taking pictures; circle dancing; bringing up two daughters; dreams: sitting in the armchair (somewhere in the garden, in the mountains), sipping coffee (milk, no sugar), listening to Blackmore's Night, U2, A-HA and writing books for children...

• Professional affiliations:

  Member: Modern Language Association of Poland - (Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne)
  Region Representative: IATEFL Poland

• Presentations/selected workshops and conferences:

  National YL Conferences, Puławy, (1999, 2004)
  Introduction to NLP, Warszawa, (2000)
  ICT in ELT, NKJO Opole, (2005)
  Young Learners' teacher training conference, Warsaw (2005)

  
  

  1. "Pre-writing techniques as the factor motivating students" paper read at Konferencja Polskiego Towarzystwa Neofilologicznego, Lublin, (2005)
     
  2. "Humorous pre-writing techniques" - Krajewska & Wrzesień, presentation at the 15th IATEFL Poland Conference, Poznań, (2006)
     
  3. "Pre-writing strategies as the way to motivate learners and as the key factor in self-evaluation and reflective learning" - paper read at the 16th IATEFL Hungary Conference, Esztergom, Hungary, (2006)
     
  4. "Storytelling in the Primary Classroom" presentation at the 16th IATEFL Poland Conference, Łódź, (2007)
     
  5. "Motivation in writing" - Krajewska & Wrzesień, paper read at Konferencja Polskiego Towarzystwa Neofilologicznego, Wrocław, (2007)
     
  6. "Teaching writing-imagination building" - paper read at the ATECR 6th International and 10th National Conference of the Association of Teachers of the Czech Republic, 'English for life', Ceske Budejovice 12-14.09.2008;
     
  7. "Word choice - Ss' main problems in writing" - Krajewska & Wrzesień, paper read at 1st International Conference "Word as an expression of regional and European integration" Kolegium Karkonoskie PWSZ Jelenia Góra
     

  
  Workshops for INSETT Legnica:
  'Storytelling as the way to motivate young learners'
  'Uczeń z dysleksją na lekcji języka angielskiego' Krajewska & Maria Leszczawska
  

• Publications:

  "Publishing students' newsletter 'SoMe...News'", Network magazine (vol./2000), The British Council
  

  "Teacher's Club - Spring 2006" (materials for primary school teachers: 1-3, 4-6) Pearson Longman, Poland (2006),
  

  "Spice up your writing", IATEFL Post-Conference Newsletter, No. 30, IATEFL Poland, Warszawa, April 2007
  

  "English Adventure" (0-4) zeszyty ćwiczeń, Pearson Longman, Poland (2008)

Jelenia Góra Region Coordinator:
Agnieszka Krajewska
aga (at) artek (dot) priv (dot) pl