Oksana Lozhnikova, Dnipro

Oksana Lozhnikova (Dnipro, Ukraine)

English Teacher

September 1996 – till now

Teacher Trainer

December 2015 – till now

IATEFL Ukraine Board Committee Member

April 2019 – till now

Access Teacher, Dnipro Regional Manager

October 2017 – till now

Principal/Owner and English Teacher

Kayar EnglisgSpace

September 2018 – now

Degrees: teacher of English,

Master’s Degree in Education,

CELTA- and TKT-qualified teacher

Key Achievements

Successfully delivered the 3-hour training “Teaching in a Time of War” sponsored by the US Department of States Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs with funding provided and administered by IREX, Smila, Ukraine, 03 April 2023
Successfully delivered the 30-hour «Teaching and learning in Difficult Times» teacher development course, an initiative of the British Council to respond to the immediate needs of teachers affected by conflict within the framework of the Global Language for Resilience Programme, Zakopane, Poland, 01-03 December 2022
Successfully delivered the 30-hour «Teaching and learning in Difficult Times» teacher development course, an initiative of the British Council to respond to the immediate needs of teachers affected by conflict within the framework of the Global Language for Resilience Programme, Warsaw, Poland, 26-28 November 2022
Successfully presented at the 8th International Caucasus Conference «Brave Spaces in ELT: Fostering Creativity and Communication in the Classroom» and participated in 10 hours of professional development work, Tbilisi, Georgia, December 9-10, 2022
Successfully carried out 60-hour organizational and methodological assistance of English teachers of 5-9 forms professional development program on British Council platform «Online Teacher Community», 08 July – 17 August 2022
Successfully carried out 60-hour organizational and methodological assistance of English teachers in the exchange program «Ukraine is the capital of great people» in the form of school summer camp organized by GoCamp and IREX, September, 2022
Took part in the exchange program «Ukraine is the capital of great people» in the form of school summer camp organized by GoCamp and IREX, June 6-17, 2022
Successfully carried out the second part of 30-hour organizational and methodological assistance of English teachers of 5-9 forms professional development program on British Council platform «Online Teacher Community», initiated by British Council and Education Ministry of Ukraine, May – June 2022
Developed with a group of coordinators and carried out «Teens’ Skills Up Club 2021-22» organised by Education USA Ukraine
Successfully coordinated 9-hour «Creative Camp «We are from Ukraine!» Conversational club with GoCamp volunteers, April 18 – May 6, 2022
Successfully carried out 30-hour organizational and methodological assistance of English teachers of 5-9 forms professional development program on British Council platform «Online Teacher Community», February 2022
Successfully provided methodological and organizational support for a 30-hour training course on the school-based mentorship program initiated by British Council and Education Ministry of Ukraine, 31 January – 25 February 2022
Successfully carried out 60-hour organizational and methodological assistance of English teachers of 5-9 forms professional development program on British Council platform «Online Teacher Community», 08 November -17 December 2021
Successfully carried out 60-hour organizational and methodological assistance of English teachers of 5-9 forms professional development program on British Council platform «Online Teacher Community», 13 September – 29 October 2021
Successfully delivered 20-hour Orientation course for facilitators of the professional development program on British Council platform «Online Teacher Community», 23-28 August 2021
Successfully delivered 45-hour online course Core Skills for trainers Teaching English in New Context – Basic School initiated by British Council and Education Ministry of Ukraine, 25 January – 04 February 2021
Successfully delivered a 40-hour online live teacher training course on «Core Skills for Teachers» to English language teachers from Moldova as a part of the British Council’s Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies project funded by the UK government, October, December 2021
A 30-hour online course Teaching Dialogue, Debating and Negotiating Skills within the British Council project Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies funded by UK Embassy, 21 – 24 June 2021
Successfully carried out 45-hour organizational and methodological assistance of English teachers of 5-9 forms professional development program on British Council platform «Online Teacher Community», November 2020- March 2021
Successfully delivered 45-hour online course Core Skills. Module 2: Communication and Collaboration within the British Council project Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies, Moldova, January 25 – February 4, 2021
Successfully delivered 30-hour online course Remote Teaching Training within the British Council project Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for for Stronger Societies in Moldova, March, 2021
Successfully delivered 6-hour teacher training course «From Education to Career – My Choice», 19 December 2020, initiated by American Council, ACTR/ACCELS
Successfully delivered 30-hour teacher training course for teacher trainers Teaching English in New Context – Basic School initiated by British Council and Education Ministry of Ukraine, 12-19 October 2020
Successfully delivered 50-hour program GoCamp Online: Around the World, 10-21 August 2020, initiated by Global Office and Regional English Language Officer
Successfully delivered 45-hour program GoCamp Online: Arts&Creativity, 22 June – 3 July 2020, initiated by Global Office
Successfully delivered 18-hour online course Core Skills. Module 2: Communication and Collaboration within the British Council project Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies, Moldova, August 2020
Successfully delivered 10-hour online course Remote Teaching Training within the British Council project Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies, Moldova and Belarus, May 2020
Successfully delivered 40-hour teacher training course Dialogue-Negotiating-Debates on 15-19 February 2020 initiated by British Council
Successfully developed and carried out a 5-hour training «21st Century Skills and English Classroom» for in the project «IMPULSE» (20 school teachers) in Mariupol, December 6, 2019
Successfully piloted the online course on Media Literacy for the group of 25 participants organized by IREX; conducted 5 offline lessons in accordance with MOOC contents, June-July, 2019
Delivered a training on Core Skills pre-pilot Bila Tserkva, 24 – 27 October 2018 May
Successfully certified as a master trainer of British Council Core Skills project and Ministry of Education of Ukraine, Core Skills for New Ukrainian School, 19/12/2019
Successfully delivered a 10-hour online course Remote Teacher Training within the British Council project Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies funded by the UK Government
TAGs online training sessions for Moldova and Belarus participants
Successfully completed a 10-hour online trainer training course on «Getting Started with Online Teaching» as a part of the British Council Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies project, Argentina
Facilitating English teachers as Change Agents on the Future English Online Teacher Community platform
Successfully delivered a 10-hour online course Remote Teacher Training within the British Council project Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies funded by the UK Government
Successfully delivering trainings for New Ukrainian School program at the moment
Successfully delivered 26-hour teacher training course for teacher trainers who will train primary teachers of 3rd -4th forms according to the programme «Teaching Primary in a New Context» February-March, 2019 initiated by British Council and Educational Ministry of Ukraine
Successfully teaching English to students at English-Speaking School Summer Camps, 2002-present
Successfully translated for US summer camp volunteer in June, 2016 during Local Administration Meetings
Occasional translating and interpreting for local authorities, 2015-2017
Successfully delivered three eTwinning projects with 10-15-year-old students with national quality labels
Ambassador of Education USA Ukraine 2021-now

Education

Specialist Degree in English language and literature, Dnipro State University, 1999
Qualification of a lawyer, Verkhniodniprovsk Agricultural College, 1997

Training

Attended Training of trainers on Psychological first aid, self-care and mitigation of burn-out for care providers in Education. Total training hours – 22, Israel Trauma Coalition, May 2023
Successfully completed 20-hour online training course «Creating a safe environment for children in wartime», 02-09 April 2022
Successfully completed the British Council e-learning course on Introduction to Safeguarding, 10 February 2022
Successfully completed 10-hour Online Teacher Community Facilitator Training course offered by the British Council within the Future English programme in September-December 2021
Participated in the professional online workshop «Online Author’s Educational online courses: developing, conducting and promotion» (25 hours) organised by U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Public Affairs Section Regional English Language Office, December 22-24, 2021
Successfully completed 10-hour online training course ‘Making Remote Learning More Inclusive’ Training Course by British Council, 21 February – 31 March 2022
IATEFL Annual Conference, April 16-17, 2021
successfully completed Train-the-Trainer course on a special program for high school advisers’ involvement, October, 09-11, 2020 initiated by American Council, ACTR/ACCELS
successfully completed a 9-hour course on «Excellence in Online Teaching for Access Teachers», May 26-July 2, 2020
English Access Microscholarship Program’s Training in Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia, on January 8-11, 2020 24 training hours
successfully completed a 10-hour online trainer training course on «Getting Started with Online Teaching» as a part of the British Council Learning Hubs: Improved Skills for Stronger Societies project funded by the UK government, 25 − 29 April 2020
Successfully completed the 24-hour Monitoring and Evaluation course designed and delivered by the British Council Ukraine, 21-24 January 2019
40-hour Master Trainer Development Course Teacher Activity Groups (TAGs) organized by the British Council within the «Stability and Prosperity» project financed by the UK Government, 26-30 November 2018
CELTA from July 30th to August 24th 2018 at Grade Education Centre, Kyiv
40-hour Face-to-Face Core Skills Trainer Development Course organized by the British Council Ukraine, 12-17 March 2018
Brand 4 in TKT Module 1 «Language and background to language learning and teaching», 02/03/18
Awarded Grade A in the Certificate in Advanced English. Performance at Grade demonstrates an ability at Level 3* and Council of Europe Level C2 in June, 2017
The 22nd Annual National IATEFL Ukraine Conference, 31 March – 01 April 2017
International Scientific and Practical Conference of Youth Researchers «Science and technology: Perspectives of the XXI Century», 30 March 2017
All-Ukrainian Conference for secondary school teachers of English, 05/04/17
40-hour «Trainer Development Course» organized by the British Council Ukraine, 11-15 June 2016 on the following topics:
Train-the-trainer
Teaching for Success
Observation and Feedback
Effective Input
Modes of Interaction
Designing Effective Activities
Band 3 in TKT Module 3 «Managing the teaching and learning process», 22/04/16
Successfully completed the 40-hour Core Skills Trainer Development Course organised by the British Council Ukraine, 28 April-o3, 2018
The 21st Annual National IATEFL Ukraine Conference, 08 – 09 April 2016
E-moderator Essential Module 2: Moderator Skills 34-hour on-line course, December, 2015
Shaping the way we teach English, 2: Path to Success in ELT 5-week on-line course, December 2015
ZNO Examiner Preparation 8-hour course, 2015
AEI eLearning Sp15 TEYL A, April 6, 2015 through June 12, 2015 on-line course
British Council Summer School for teachers. Follow up course 2014
CiSELT Proficient teacher training on-line course from 25/10/2012 to 05/03/2013
British Council Summer School for teachers. Train the trainer course. First steps 2013