Small Adjustments ​for BIG impact | Karolina Kotorowicz-Jasinska

This talk introduces “smart supplementation” in language teaching, moving “beyond the course book.” The speaker, an educational expert, offers practical, classroom-based strategies, not research-based ones. The goal is creating supplementary materials that are engaging and educationally valuable, not just time-fillers. Effective supplementation should require minimal teacher preparation but maximize student effort. The “SMART” framework (strategic purpose, measurable outcomes, achievable preparation, reliable administration, task-driven effort) helps design “impromptu” tasks. Examples include context-based vocabulary use, personalization, study reading, and having students generate questions or summaries. This shifts the “workload” to learners, promoting active learning.