Featured Session - International Conference 2016
7 Brain-Friendly Ways to Foster Deeper Understanding and Autonomy in Your Classroom
Deeper understanding. Sounds good, but what is it? — and how can we foster it in the classroom? Neuroscience is helping us remove the guesswork! Come hear about seven well-researched cutting-edge tactics that greatly enhance understanding, autonomy, leadership, and students' feelings of ownership toward the teaching material. Learn how to implement them into your own teaching context. It will make your job easier — and your students will thank you for it!
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Invited Second Session
Designing a Better Brain-Friendly Syllabus: 5 Major Points to Remember! (Workshop)
Advanced neuroELT. Knowing what to do isn't enough! How can we design a better brain-friendly syllabus? Perhaps you already implement some concepts of neuroELT into your teaching. But, do all the parts work together coherently? How can we even begin to assess cohesiveness? In this workshop, we will introduce five major points that need to be referenced for designing a better brain-friendly syllabus. Come to this workshop to learn about those five points, and begin working on how to implement those five points into your own syllabus design. Remember: it's no longer about what you implement — it's now about how you implement! You won't want to miss this workshop!
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Biographical Sketch
Associate professor, University of Kitakyushu, and co-founder of the international FAB (neuroELT) conferences, Robert S. Murphy is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. He has studied mind, brain, and education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and neuroimaging at the University of Edinburgh. Robert has an MA from the University of Birmingham in TEFL/TESL, is the founder of Murphy School of Education, and is the author of the Optimal Levels! a textbook series published by Deeper Understanding Books. Robert is a leading voice for neuroELT in Asia. Email: murphyschool.com@me.com
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Resources on the Web: Robert Murphy
Academic Papers: Robert Murphy
https://kitakyu-u.academia.edu/RobertMurphy
Pecha Kucha Session: NeuroELT: "Creating Champion Students"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SQYnlz5NwY
Video: Murphy's Neuro-myth-busters!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdP-4IEP_FI
Video: NeuroELT Course, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YVVRGgtUn0
Video: NeuroELT Course, Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fmgWEjhIV8
NeuroELT Conference Website
http://fab-efl.com
See Robert'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
