Jasper Kok and Özgen Bagci Cervo

Shaping English language teaching towards personalized learning

Length: 45 minutes
Audience focus: Teachers of young learners, Teachers of adolescent leaners, Teachers of adult learners,
Teacher trainers, Freelance teachers

Teaching English with a large-scale assessment as a base changes the way English is being taught in education in the Netherlands.
Now teams are provided with reliable data, skill management and scoring with meaningful and detailed feedback. Together these form the starting point of their teaching.
It enables school teams to switch more towards personalized English teaching, in which teachers have become guides and coaches of the learning process and motivation of all involved has increased.

Biography

Jasper Kok MA is an innovative managing director of a board consisting of eleven primary schools, promoting internationalisation and English teaching.
Özgen Bagci, an English teacher, now works as an educational advisor for Goaltesting BV and ETS, specialized in TOEFL YSS and personalized learning.

Speakers' institutions

Jasper Kok: Stichting OPO Hof van Twente, Netherlands
Özgen Bagci Cervo: Goaltesting BV, Italy