Gangwon Summer Teachers’ Workshop
Starting soon!
Here's the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83369748116?pwd=ODJvQ0M3eWV5ZjduT0JXb2JLRzMxQT09
Passcode: 755664
Getting Ready for Another Semester
Online or Offline, Public or Private, Uni or Ele — Everyone’s Invited!
Everyone is invited to take part in Gangwon KOTESOL's summer meeting. Usually, we have our "Summer University Teachers' Conference", but we're trying something a bit different this year. We're bringing in an awesome-sauce featured speaker, and then making use of Zoom breakout rooms to have a concurrent series of small group workshops on a variety of topics.
Update (August 14): Here is the link to the registration form.
Everyone is welcome, but please bear in mind that this event is focused on the Korean context. For the small group workshops / presentations, attendance may be limited; In that case, priority will be given to KOTESOL members.
A Zoom link will be distributed to participants prior to the event.
Schedule
1:00-1:15: Introduction and Welcome
1:15 - 2:15 Featured Speaker: Dr. Charles Browne
“Reflections on a year and a half of emergency remote teaching.”
Dr. Browne, who has spent his 'pandemic time' training teachers from different contexts around the world, brings his expertise in online teacher training to Gangwon! He will present what he has found to be the most meaningful and impactful lessons for teachers who know the basics (and more) of online teaching, but who want to maximize the efficacy of their lessons. He'll also talk about his work with the New General Service List Project, which he first introduced to KOTESOL several years ago at our 2014 National Conference in Daegu.
Here's his own introduction to the presentation:
Sadly, the 7-year sabbatical rotation at my university meant that my turn for sabbatical, whether I liked it or not, was 2020. That said, as a long-term believer in, and developer of online resources, I was well placed to help teachers, students and schools around the globe, learning many good lessons during this time. This presentation will discuss some of those lessons and introduce a few of my free online resources, especially those related to vocabulary and reading skills development.
2:15 - 2:45: Q and A with Dr. Browne
2:45 - 3:00: Break
3:00-4:00: Breakout Room Workshops
In this hour, we will have a series of small group sessions. Here, participants can work with workshop facilitators to learn more about the topic and adapt it to their specific teaching context. We're going to attempt to keep these at a maximum of 10 people per workshop.
Topics:
Room 1: Tech Tools and Tips with Lindsay Herron
Room 2: (Re-)designing Reflective Observation Tasks for the Virtual Classroom with Michael Free and Stewart Gray
Room 3: Using Music and Movies to Infuse Cultural Content into ELT Classrooms with John Breck
Room 4: Discussing Factors that Affect Learners Willingness to Use L2 with Stevan Johnson
Room 5: YOURS! If you have an idea / topic you’d like to discuss or lead a workshop on, please let us know!
4:00-4:15: Short break / buffer for workshops that need more time
4:15-4:45 : Reports and Discussion
Each workshop leader will give a brief report, highlighting what their group found most interesting or significant. This could also include links to a document with a summary and resources.
4:45 : Wrap-up and Goodbyes
We'll have a quick wrap-up and then say goodbye!
Workshop Abstracts
Room 1: Tech Tools and Tips with Lindsay Herron
The format in this room is simple: partcipants bring their questions about tech and Lindsay answers them! From advice on app selection to tips on how to maximize engagement, this session could be the place you find the answer you need!
Room 2: (Re-)designing Reflective Observation Tasks for the Virtual Classroom with Michael Free and Stewart Gray
Among the best reflective tools are tasks, particularly observation tasks. However, most of these were designed with the traditional classroom in mind. Can we still use these tasks? How? After briefly rehearsing some terminology, the facilitators will present tasks from some of the standard resources categorised according to their applicability to ‘the new normal’: tasks that can be used, those that can’t, and those that require adaptation. The bulk of the time will be spent working in small groups, where participants create tasks for their own contexts. The takeaways will be tasks participants can either use or adapt as, as well as ideas for self-designed tasks.
Room 3: Using Music and Movies to Infuse Cultural Content into ELT Classrooms with John Breck
Envision a classroom where rich, compelling, fun content captivates students who effortlessly develop language skills while expanding their cultural awareness. Could these ideals become realities? This workshop proclaims: Yes! For five years as a university professor in S. Korea, I have been developing ways to infuse music into ELT. Music content is often transformative as students seamlessly enrich their cultural appreciation while concurrently improving their L2. Considering Stephen Krashen's Compelling Input Hypothesis framework, music and movies together may provide content so compelling, some students will improve their L2 automatically, without giving conscious effort. Beyond compelling content, this workshop will introduce the most effective content delivery strategies -- including OST-centered formative tasks -- I have conducted, fully online, over the past three semesters. I will also summarize a 'History of Rock' course I taught twice, from 2017-2018. During multiple small and whole group discussions, attendee participation is highly encouraged.
Room 4: Discussing Factors that Affect Learners Willingness to Use L2 with Stevan Johnson
This discussion will raise some questions about students' willingness and/or reluctance to engage with speaking activities in the classroom. Through the lens of socio-cultural, psychological, and linguistic sources we will discuss strategies on how to deal with student reluctance to engage as well as discuss the importance of teacher control and learner engagement in speaking activities.
Featured Speaker Bio
CHARLES BROWNE
Dr. Browne is Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Meiji Gakuin University. He is a specialist in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition and Extensive Reading, especially as they apply to online learning environments, and has written dozens of articles, books, and textbooks over his 30 years in Japan. In addition to his work in creating many important new corpus-based word lists and a wide range of free online tools to teach, learn and create texts based on these lists, he has also developed countless free online ER/EL and vocabulary learning sites, tools and apps, working hard to share this knowledge through countless presentations, seminars and hand-on workshops around the world.
