MACMILLAN

LIFE SKILLS

2015
teacher

toolkit
Make the most of your
time and talents in 2015!

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Life Skills 2015

at a glance
January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

LIFE SKILLS SPECIAL

Join Emma-Sue Prince and other life
skills experts for a day of FREE webinars,
interactive learning and chat! Register now
at macmillanenglish.com/webinars

Wednesday

July

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Life Skills 2015

Young Learner topics

EATING
HEALTHILY

I can eat
healthily.
Can you?

January

February

May

I can solve
puzzles.
Can you?

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October

I can invent and design

games. Can you?

June

Independence

Cultural awareness
I can understand
different cultures.
Can you?

August

I can describe
animals.
Can you?

creativity

communication

April

communication

March

We can use the past

tense. Can you?

I can give directions.

Can you?

July

I can
write a story.
Can you?

collaboration

citizenship

problem
solving

creativity

We can work in a team.

Can you?

We can buy items from a

shop in English. Can you?

September
Cultural awareness

Numeracy

I can understand different

cultures. Can you?

We can count.
Can you?

November

December

LIFE SKILLS SPECIAL

Join Emma-Sue Prince and other life
skills experts for a day of FREE webinars,
interactive learning and chat! Register now
at macmillanenglish.com/webinars

Wednesday

July

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Make 2015 your best

year yet!
To help you plan and get the most out of your time, skills and life in
2015, weve created this handy Life Skills Teacher Toolkit.

Inside your toolkit will find:

Objectives sheet: Somewhere to reflect on and record your

recent achievements, and to set your objectives for the year ahead.

Printable 2015 calendar: A calendar featuring inspiring life

skills quotes and illustrations, plus dates for all the free, expertled webinars weve got coming up.

Monthly review: A flexible tool to help you reflect on your

monthly experiences, achievements and intentions.

Weekly planner: A photocopiable weekly planner to help you list

and achieve your objectives each week.

We hope you find this toolkit both practical and inspiring. Wed love to
hear about your teaching experiences throughout the year, so tweet us
@macmillanELT or share your highlights with us over on Facebook.
Be sure to subscribe to our email list to receive
monthly inspiration, motivation and teaching tips
plus all of our latest FREE life skills resources!

Macmillan Education

Teachers
at the heart
Throughout 2015 well be celebrating your
work and asking you to tell us why you
#loveteaching! Were also offering one lucky
teacher the chance to win a two week
teacher training course in the UK.
Find out more at:
macmillanenglish.com/teaching

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My Objectives
What did you achieve in 2014? What are your goals for this year?
Perhaps you want to learn a new language, set up a class blog, gain new qualifications
or manage your time better. Use this form to consider how you want to feel and what
you want to get out of the next 12 months.
This list is for YOU, so be honest and be bold! Stay focused on your goals by reviewing
this at the start of each month to reflect on and reward your progress.

Looking back
For me, 2014 was the year of:

My teaching highlights:

My personal highlights:

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The achievement/s I am most proud of are:

The challenges I overcame:

The life skills I used most were:

Positive feedback and nice things people said about me:

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Looking ahead
This year I will be more (e.g. Assertive? Creative? Decisive?):

New ideas I want to try out in class:

The new skills and knowledge I want to gain in 2015:

My biggest single goal for 2015 is

(this could be a qualification or skill or just being more organised!)

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Things I need to do in order to achieve my goal:

The people who will support me in achieving my goal:

If I ever I feel stressed, this year I will:

Whenever I achieve something, this year I will reward myself by:

My inspirational quote for 2015 is:

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A place for
everything and
everything in
its place
Benjamin Franklin

TO-DO LIST

January
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KEY DATES
14th: WEBINAR New for 2015 with Jo Greig
21st: WEBINAR Creativity in the Young Learner Classroom with Carol Read

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The greatest
thing in the
world is to know
how to belong
to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne

TO-DO LIST

February
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KEY DATES
11th: WEBINAR Motivating Teenage Learners with Rebecca Robb Benne

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Creativity
is contagious.
Pass it on.
Albert Einstein

TO-DO LIST

March
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KEY DATES
18th: WEBINAR Young Learner Literacy Day

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Dont study
hard study
smart.
Amy Lucas

TO-DO LIST

April
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KEY DATES
14th: WEBINAR Study Skills with Dorothy Zemach

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The less
people know,
the more
they yell.
Seth Godin

TO-DO LIST

May
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KEY DATES
13th: WEBINAR Storytelling Special with Chris Rose and a special guest

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Find something
youre passionate
about and stay
tremendously
interested in it.
Julia Child

TO-DO LIST

June
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KEY DATES
10th: WEBINAR Exams: No-stress! with Roy Norris

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If you want to
go fast, go alone.
If you want to
go far, go with
others.
African proverb

TO-DO LIST

July
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KEY DATES
1st: WEBINAR Life Skills Special with Emma Sue Prince and Carol Higho

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Youll miss the

best things if
you keep your
eyes shut.
Dr. Seuss

TO-DO LIST

August
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KEY DATES

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Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has
not yet come. We
have only today.
Let us begin.
Mother Teresa

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September
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KEY DATES
9th: WEBINAR Back to Class Special with Carol Read (Young Learners),

Sam McCarter (Exams) and Steve Taylore-Knowles (Adults)

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Think left and

think right and
think low and think
high. Oh, the thinks
you can think up if
only you try.
Dr. Seuss

TO-DO LIST

October
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KEY DATES
14th: WEBINAR Top Tips to Boost your Business English Lessons

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A sense of humour
is part of the art
of leadership, of
getting along with
people, of getting
things done.
Dwight D.Eisenhower

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November
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KEY DATES
2nd6th: MACMILLAN EDUCATION ONLINE CONFERENCE 2015

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Be amusing:
never tell unkind
stories; above
all, never tell
long ones.
Benjamin Disraeli

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December
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KEY DATES
11th: WEBINAR Surprise Seasonal Special! To be revealed

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Monthly
review

Monthly review for:

The 3 words that best describe my month:

The key things I achieved:

My teaching highlight/s of the month:

Positive feedback and nice things students said:

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New things I tried or discovered:

The life skills I used most and how:

Next month I want to focus on:

How I am progressing with my 2015 goal/s:

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W/C

Must-do of the week:

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Notes

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