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Speaker 1: Petra Glithero-Baldwin
Title: Mind-full or Mindful? Creating Mindful Pauses in Classrooms
Abstract: This workshop will explore ways in which we can use mindfulness, self-regulated learning, and kindness-training to guide our students to become more independent learners considerate of their own and others’ needs. This kind of mindfulness in education has been shown to help learners use learning strategies uncustomary to their regular learning habits, thus improve the classroom experience.
Biography: Petra teaches presentation skills at KAIST. Her research interests include learner beliefs, mindfulness in education, and content-integrated learning. In her spare time, Petra practices as well as teaches yoga.
Speaker 2: Stewart Gray
Title: Getting Started With Reflective Practice
Abstract: Reflective practice (RP) involves consciously making observations about our teaching and ourselves as teachers, committing to the improvement of our practice, experimenting, reflecting on our experiments, and committing to further, ongoing change throughout our professional lives. By engaging in RP we can claim responsibility for our own professional development, respond adaptively to whatever our teaching contexts throw at us, and avoid professional stagnation. This presentation offers a brief introduction to some possible approaches to RP, including:
- Five focal areas of reflection, as taken from the framework developed by Tom Farrell (philosophy, principles, theory, practice, beyond practice).
- Questions to guide reflection on these areas.
- A number of principles taken from the literature to keep in mind when reflecting.
- A few examples of RP ‘methods’.
- Some advice from the presenter’s own experience.
The goal of the presentation is that any attendees interested in getting involved with RP will get a sense of where to begin.
Biography:
Stewart Gray in an English teacher at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He completed his MA TESOL at Dankook University (Jukjeon), and is a PhD student with the University of Leeds (England). He also facilitates the KOTESOL reflective practice SIG.
