Plenary Session - International Conference 2016
You Can't Get Apples from a Pear Tree: What Teachers Need to Know and Be Able to Do in the 21st Century
To shape the future with 21st century skills, teachers must first take stock of what they do and do not yet know and do in their own classrooms in order to plan for personal improvement. This plenary talk will ask teachers to consider five major changes in education in the 21st century, and then do a survey about their own personal 21st century skills to identify areas in need of development. The plenary will close with suggestions on how to fill gaps in personal skill sets.
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Invited Second Session
Creating a Personalized Professional Development Program to Enhance 21st Century Skills
This workshop will pick up where the plenary session left off. Using a new Educator's Professional Development Guide based on Hattie's Visible Learning criteria (2009) and Tokuhama-Espinosa's 50 Best Practices Based on Mind, Brain, and Education Science (2014), this session will help teachers outline their own personalized professional development programs. Teachers will learn a process of identifying 21st century skills, how they manifest themselves and can be developed in classroom contexts, and what they themselves can do to enhance these same skills in their own lives.
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Biographical Sketch
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa currently conducts educational research with the Latin American Faculty for Social Science in Ecuador and teaches "The Neuroscience of Learning: An Introduction to Mind, Brain, and Education Science" at the Harvard University Extension School. Her office seeks to improve the quality of education through research, teacher training, and student support. Tracey works with schools, universities, NGOs, and businesses in 27 countries around the world and has more than 26 years of teaching, administrative, and research experience K-university. Tracey was a member of the OECD's Expert Panel on Teachers' New Pedagogical Knowledge (2013-14). She is the former Dean of Education at the Universidad de las Americas in Quito, Ecuador and ex-Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning (IDEA) in the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. She is the proud mother of three multilingual children and has written various articles and books on the topic of multilingualism.
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Resources on the Web: Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Elaborated Video of Plenary Abstract
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B8RaPiQPEZ9Zfl96ZE9NSGFEQlJXY3N3...
Article: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Teaching Foreign Languages (New Routes Magazine)
http://traceytokuhama.com/index.php?option=com_tz_portfolio&view=article...
Personal Website: Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
http://traceytokuhama.com/
See Dr. Tokuhama-Espinosa's introductory video for KOTESOL 2016 immediately below.
See the full list of Major Speakers at the KOTESOL International Conference at https://koreatesol.org/ic2016/Major-Speakers
