Join us at the KOTESOL Membership Lounge on Monday, September 7, for an AMA with super-star scholar and author Curtis Kelly!
About Our Guest
Curtis Kelly, EdD, is a self-avowed brain nerd. He founded the JALT Mind, Brain, and Education SIG and is currently the producer of the MindBrainEd Think Tanks, a magazine connecting brain sciences to language teaching. He is a professor of English at Kansai University in Japan and has written over 30 books, including the Cambridge Writing from Within series. Since his life mission is “to relieve the suffering of the classroom,” he has spent most of his life developing learner-centered materials for 3L students—students with low ability, low confidence, and low motivation. He is currently working on a super-fun book of info gap mysteries, The Snoop Detective School Conversation Book.
Random Facts:
As a child, he lived in a log house and rode a horse to elementary school.
He wastes at least 6 hours a day playing strategy games.
He has six toes on one of his feet.
He operated three of King Kong’s fingers in the 2005 movie.
He is 18 months pregant.
Only one of these is true.
