Presenter: KC Washington
Title: Finding Clues + Connections with Active Listening
Abstract
This workshop seeks to demonstrate the efficacy of active listening and to showcase a fun, simple way to enable student engagement in the classroom. It also highlights methods to foster connection and language transference using Clues + Connections.
After classroom management, getting students to speak up and participate in class is a teacher’s biggest struggle, or is it? Getting students to focus, getting students to participate are both serious challenges, but I would argue that getting students to commit to learning English, to make it a part of their everyday lives, thereby triggering connection and language transference is the real struggle. Language transference is when a learner transfers what they know in their own language (L1) to what they want to know in the second (L2) language. This is something that is easier to do in fields such as Mathematics or medicine, but it is also possible and necessary in bilingual or second language acquisition.
Biography
KC Washington is a Foreign Language Lecturer at Gyeongsang National University, a novelist, travel blogger, and freelance independent historian. She has an Associate of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a Bachelor of Arts in English from Brooklyn College, and a Master of Arts in Bilingual Education/ESL and Reading from the University of Texas Permian Basin.
KC has written articles on travel, feminism, and African American culture, and is currently a contributing writer for BlackPast.org, “The English Connection”, and the “KOTESOL Journal”.
She has been the vice president of the Busan-Gyeongnam KOTESOL chapter since 2022.
Presenter: Kristina Kauss
Title: Active Learning Activities: Perspective Role-playing to Progressive Storytelling
Abstract
As teachers, we need to constantly adapt to help our students get out of the rut of thinking the textbook is the only right way to learn the material. We often need to change up our teaching strategies from lecturer to facilitator to help improve our students' understanding. Some ways to do this are by considering student motivation, facilitating creative thinking and active learning, and doing activities so teachers and students learn to see things from different perspectives. In this workshop, we will look at active learning tasks that can be used as stand-alone activities, as well as independently or within learning groups, and can be adapted to most levels and lessons while helping everyone master the material through seeing people and situations from different angles.
Biography
Kristina Kauss is a Canadian teacher who has taught elementary, middle school, high school, university, adults, and teachers in Korea, Canada, and the USA since 1997 with over 16 years of teaching experience in Korea.
Drop by ahead of the Workshops for the Craft Market at 1:30
Come to see what all the vendors have prepared to sell! Doors open at 1:15; workshops start at 3.
- Kristina of ZSJ Silks & Sweet Treats with silks, pottery, & baked goods
- Natalie of Hanji Naty with hanji ornaments, earrings, hair accessories, & coasters
- Yara of Levant with savoury edibles
- Hayley of Yarn Crafted Soul with crocheted items
- Ingrid of Fantasy Fancies with jewellery and fudge
- Lisa of Lovely Letters with calligraphy cards & workshop tickets
- Brittania of Lady Gurumi with amigurumi
- Timothy of ShenaniTims with animal sketches
