Date: Saturday, April 8th 2017
Time: 10:00am~12:00pm
Place: Teacher Training Center (교사교육센터), Rm. 101, Gyeongin National University of Education, Gyeonggi (Anyang) Campus - Directions: https://koreatesol.org/DirectionsGyeonginGyeonggi
Topics: How to Integrate Creativity into English Education; A Practical Implementation of the Story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” for Young Learners
Details:
The Suwon-Gyeonggi KOTESOL chapter’s April workshop features two speakers, Sangmin Lee presenting “How to Integrate Creativity into English Education” and Tyler Clark presenting “A Practical Implementation of the Story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” for Young Learners.”
As always, attendance is free and refreshments will be provided.
Questions or comments may be directed to the Suwon-Gyeonggi KOTESOL chapter president Tyler Clark at sparkyclarky@gmail.com.
Abstracts:
Topic: “How to Integrate Creativity into English Education”
This presentation aims to explore how to integrate creativity into English education. Creativity is a complex ability that involves identifying problems, making inferences and new connections, generating new ideas and communicating results. Torrance (1988) delineated four constructs of creativity: originality (generation of a new idea), fluency (the number of new ideas), flexibility (the number of categories of new ideas), and elaboration (the degree of detail and precision of the idea). This presentation shares several ideas to increase student creativity through task-based learning. Some of the examples include: auction (descriptive writing), hypertext writing (collaborative narrative writing), virtual museum (speaking and writing), game-based learning, and location-based learning.
Topic: “A Practical Implementation of the Story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” for Young Learners”
Michael Rosen’s story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” has been delighting audiences both young and old since its publication. Containing both vivid settings and stimulating language, the story makes an ideal source for a performance piece for young learners. This presentation will cover how to use the story in class, including key activities for story comprehension, vocabulary development, sharing thoughts on the story, and maintaining interest. Additionally, motions which may be used when presenting the story as a class will also be demonstrated, and time will be provided for teachers to discuss how they might implement the story in their own classrooms.
Speaker Bios:
Sangmin Lee
Associate Professor (Kyung Hee University, Global Communication)
Editor of British Journal of Educational Technology
Vice President of Korean Association of Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning
Author of Elementary and Middle School English Textbooks, Creativity and English Education, etc.
Lecturer of EBS English
Tyler Clark
Tyler Clark has spent the past decade teaching English to a wide variety of learners in South Korea. He is currently a lecturer at Gyeongin National University of Education's Incheon campus, a position he has held since 2009 and that primarily sees him instructing university freshman in conversational English skills. In addition to this, he spends time working with teacher trainees in the Intensive English Teacher Training Program at Gyeongin. Furthermore, he holds weekly classes with community members of a wide variety of ages as part of a lifelong education program. From 2010-2015 he was also involved with Gyeongin's Dream Tree Program (굼나무안심학교). In this after-school program, he worked with groups of first-, second-, and third-grade elementary school students who were just beginning their English journey. He began his teaching career with three years of educating the children of Pori Elementary School in Siheung, an experience that grounded him for the adventures to come. In his private life, Tyler enjoys all things technology-related, plays the guitar, does a spot of photography, and revels in the joys of creating and savoring a good cup of coffee.
