A GROUP OF TEACHERS PARTICIPATED IN THE WORKSHOP JOLLY PHONICS*

On February 8 and 9 2016, the workshop Jolly Phonics was held at Cherkasy Regional Institute of Advanced Training of Pedagogical workers. It was conducted by Coral George, a teacher from the UK, a certified trainer of the program of early teaching English to young children.

Teaching kids, Coral uses Jolly Phonics and explains that children have an interest in learning the language right after the first lesson. Coral works with various teachers, universities and language schools in the world. She is currently working with her team of trainers to help teachers from Cherkasy region to master the latest methods of teaching reading and other speech skills.

6 schools in Cherkasy region have become the first participants in Ukraine of the joint English-Spanish-Ukrainian project of early teaching of the English language and begin to pilot training and methodological support of Jolly Phonics.

10 teachers from our gymnasia (Belyaeva T. S. Basysta L. M., Pais Y. V., Brovchenko Y. S., Rabenko Y. K., Momot Y. V., Teslenko O. A., Duka O. A., Kaleva A. O., Kornienko I. V.) participated in the workshop.