Last month Edusoft was invited to facilitate a hands-on workshop hosted by Santillana in Panama. Grupo Santillana is the largest educational publisher in the Spanish-speaking world and has twenty-one offices worldwide. One of Edusoft’s implementation specialists was invited to Panama to conduct a hands-on workshop that was delivered to English experts from leading Universities in the Panama area.
The workshop began with a session entitled “How to Increase Student Motivation in Technology-enhanced Learning Environment”. Here participants were given the opportunity to review the latest trends in technology-enhanced learning and were provide with tips and tools in how to implement technology to enhance student motivation. In the afternoon, participants were given an in-depth presentation on the how to effectively implement the TOEFL Young Student Series English-language Solution into the classroom. This solution includes a full package for teachers and students including: Curriculum, Ongoing teacher professional development, on-going Interactive Learning, TOEFL Junior® and TOEFL® Primary™ English Learning Center and concludes with TOEFL Junior® Standard and the TOEFL® Primary™ Tests. The response from all participants was extremely positive and the participants left this seminar with the tools to successfully implement any future English programs.