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Anna Zhironkina
Location Belgium / Russia
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I think it is better to have a responsible person for it, as fundraising includes quite a research, knowledge and organization of the process.
Everyone working in the ACO might become an ambassador and take part in fundraising, though it is better when all processes are centrally coordinated by one person with a complete vision of all campaign. The relations... -
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I think the key skills gap is communication between the ACO and donators. It is important to be clear in communication and have a formed aim of the campaign, so the donators can have comprehension of the what exactly they are supporting. It is essential especially for a new audience.
Also I see a gap in creative thinking, as quite often ACOs use the same...
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Hi everyone! My name is Anna and I'm based in Antwerp, Belgium. This course I already did a year ago, and found it interesting. Now I decided to review and refresh some knowledge and insights from it. I am interested in this course cause I am professionally involved in Art and Culture Sector.
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Thanks for an interesting week. I have a question, maybe someone can answer: as I remember correct the first books can be printed only in black and red. Is there a specific reason for this colour selection?
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Thank you very much. I found this course useful. There are some new insights as well as a couple of forgotten basics. Working in ACO implies a daily routine and sometimes it results in a tendency to forget our value and mission. Doing this course is a great chance to refresh the understanding of ACO which is, I believe, necessary for every leader. Also...
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The "See Also section" is missing in this chapter.
Though it stands in the text "You can read more about the ‘coaching culture’ aspect of the Resilience Project in the See Also section." -
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What a lady! Clear minded, structured, straight to the point. All so many insights just in a few minutes. Something which I've missed in many lectures about ACO's. Thank you, Sheena Wrigley for sharing advices and your vision. My first comment in this course goes to you.
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I would love to believe that in the ideal world diplomats aim to build stronger connections, warmer relations and better understanding between parties. But in historical perspective we often might observe using arts and culture as an instrument of political and economical standoff, as one of the “soft power” wappon for imposition “hard power” or for erosion...
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Culture is the aspect on identification from others as well as the common ground for international communication. It’s not only about promoting, it’s also about making connections between countries. Sometimes playing quite important role, when other relations (political, economical, etc.) are broken.
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Hi everyone! My name is Anna. I’m interested in the topic, because it’s connected to my current work as well as the studies I’ve done in the university and also of general curiosity to learn more.
Nice to meet everyone and wish us an intense and productive learning and collaborations) -
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My main used platform is skype. But I think I’ll borrow a few ideas from this lesson
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I started to teach online because it gives me more freedom and reduces time spending on travels.
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• I live in Antwerp and would say that the river Scheldt is our cultural heritage.
• It was the starting point of the city and always intertwined with the history through the centuries. Our legends, golden ages, historical failures as well as multicultural face of the presence and future vision — everything involves the Scheldt.
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I found interesting what Howard Decker said about understanding ourselves through collective memory.
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In my vision, heritage is our perception of the things. It’s an extra metaphysical layer which people put on (im)material objects to make them valuable, priceless and immortal for a specific society and the next generations. So it appears as a connection between past, present and future.
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Hi! I’m Anna from Antwerp, Belgium. Working in cultural and tourism sector. Here to develop my knowledge and broad horizons. Specially interested in a process of creating/claiming objects of heritage.
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Ioanna, its not easy to put everything here, as I said before - teaching to read is entire science. But good for us, I saw a MOOK somewhere on futurelearn.com or coursera.org, about it. Have a look if you are interested.
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For me it looks like the best week of the course.
Tracey Chapelton and James Nottingham gave us so much useful information, that I wrote down in my observation journal almost every word they said. Thanks a lot! It's a good way to finish the course! -
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James Nottingham Is just awesome! I can watch him on replay all day long!!!
Thank British Consul for bringing us such enthusiastic speakers and educators!And it is so true that an early childhood shouldn't be taken as a preparation for school. As the rest of our lives. We all — babies, children, teens, adults, teachers, must remember to enjoy the current...
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Speaking about my classes, I would say that in reading all children are so different. Some can read 140 words per minute (without articles) already in 6 years. But I had kids who can hardly read 30-40 words in 8 years. To teach reading especially in a second language is a big issue. Teachers must know a lot about all psychological, physiological and technical...
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For teachers I would really recommend to start a diary where you can write down all wow moments. It brings you a lot of inspiration and never lets you give up in hard times.
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I had wow moments almost every day) when kids start to use more different words or speak in full sentence — that's really great!
I remember once we were sitting on the mat for too long and when I got up my legs hurt. So I made a sad face and said in English" ohhh Anita (that's my name as a teacher) is so old, her legs ache" and a 5-years girl came to me and... -
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I think you can measure progress with motivation. If child still wants to play and enjoys your lessons - it's a good sign that you are doing fine.
We cannot force children to speak and it is not right to expect them to show their progress. But if they play with you, react on your commands and interested in activities — I believe it might be a good scale for... -
We use image of the British bees, cause they have longer tongues which can't stay in their mouths while zzzzzzzing)
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This week was very interesting and gave me an idea that feeling safe is important not only for children but for adults too. I see with my adult students that the biggest problem which stops them from speaking is possibility of making mistakes. And as it was mention in this week — to take a risk we need to feel safe, secure and generally cared. I'm studying...
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Knowing your culture and background is very important. But also it matters to feel that they are value.
In the British museum there are so many different rooms dedicated to almost all cultures in the world, I found it quite exciting that schools take their classes there and children can learn about how big the world is and that every culture has reason to be... -
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That's a big list. I would like to comment last two:
*Lead imaginative movement sessions based on children’s current interests such as space travel, zoo animals or shadows.
That's my favourite thing, I love to give children roles in my classes. I have special masks with animals which they can use during lesson. Sometimes they can choose, sometimes I give... -
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I think one of the most iportant roles of adult in children's playing is to build a good environment, to build in a child feeling of being safe and surround with a good emotional atmosphere.
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We learn from different channels: from seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting. In adult some of these channels are more developed, some less.
But in childhood they all work quite good and have a great potential to development.
So using all these channels during teaching gives us much better results.
For example, to learn some vocabulary about daily... -
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I think it is very important to change activities every 2-3 minutes. Because children cannot pay attention for a long time and stick it's one thing.
It also important to have different kind of activities and rotate them to active studying and passive relaxing.
for example you in my classes we have a very wide range of things to do: small talk and then... -
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Hey everyone! My name is Anna! Originally I'm from Moscow, Russia, but currently living in Antverp, Belgium.
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Being compared with someone is horrible for child. Me being a younger sister had absolutelly no motivation in things which my sister was better, but somehow we adults don't really think about it cause in our world compairing can challenge us and push for some improve. So sometime we just forget that we are different with children and good things for us can...
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1. In the early years it is important to tell children about their feelings and emotions, cause mostly they don't have enough words and skills to say it themselves. Specially in stressful moments. And it also good to let them feel useful with fixing little accidents.
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1. I think emotional wellbeing is as important as physical. When child has headache or toothache, he is not really interested in communication but more concentrated on the pain. The same is with your emotional condition. If child doesn't feel himself comfortabel, he is not that motivated to communicate. And child doesn't try to hide their emotions cause of...
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I think it's also important to have a reason to speak English.Children must not be forced to speak English just because a teacher talk to them in English. It can confused children and at some age even get them skeptical why they have to speak different language if an English teacher can perfectly understand them in their mother tongue.
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Babies DO understand language MUCH faster than they speak.
Children CAN EASILY really learn a language when they are playing.
An adult’s brain is FAAAAAR LESS active than a three-year-old child’s brain.
Children ABSOLUTELLY learn best when they are interested in something.
Putting language in a context helps children a lot to puck in words.
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I teach English to children from 4 to 10 years old in a private school.
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Hi everyone! My name is Anna and I live in Moscow, Russia. I have just started my teaching career, so to learn some new things would be very useful for me. This is not my first online course, I've already passed few of Britich council courses. And I liked them a lot! So my expectation that this one is going to be very interesting, informative like previous...
