Bio's - Speakers
Samantha Levinson
(Reflective Practice) Webinar Library
Improving Collaboration and Self-Reflection in the Private Sector: A How-To
The Critical Incident Protocol was developed through Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University and introduced the concept of personal and shared teacher reflection. Reflective practice includes identifying a problem and identifying why it happened but often stops there. The meaning of the episode and how it affects our practice is often overlooked. The idea of educators as learners makes many students uncomfortable, but why? Shouldn’t educators...
Simon Fisher
(Technology, Multiple Skills) Webinar Library
TBL and Technology: Teaching Creatively with Computer Coding
Originally of Ontario, Canada, Kristy moved to South Korea after attaining her Bachelor of Education. After acquiring five years of teaching experience and professional development, she is now a teacher trainer at the Jeollanamdo International Education Institute. Her main responsibility is instructing and inspiring Korean primary and secondary public school teachers. She focuses on Pronunciation Skills to improve her trainees’ comprehensibility, and Microteaching to...
Stafford Lumsden
Invited Speaker- 3:00-3:45 pm YouTube Live
Timeline of an Outbreak: Australian Higher Education Moving to Online Teaching in Response to Novelcorona Virus 19
The beginning of the 2020 academic year will be remembered as being disruptive due to the calamity that is COVID-19. This presentation provides a chronological narrative of one university's response to the pandemic. It examines the challenges the university faced transferring the entire student body to online learning and the important learning (and discoveries) that occurred along the way. Finally, it considers the...
Teach North Korean Refugees (TNKR)
Invited Speaker- 2:00- 2:45 pm YouTube Live
KOTESOL Gives Back: Empowering North Korean Refugees Through ELT
Presented by Casey Lartigue, Jr., Eunkoo Lee, and Yuna Jung
KOTESOL is excited to collaborate once again with Teach North Korean Refugees (TNKR), a fellow non-profit organization. TNKR is dedicated to supporting refugees by providing English language programs, including one-on-one tutoring, speech competitions, and mentoring for employment and education opportunities, so that they may better navigate and thrive in South Korean society. As a result, many of...
Terri Beadle
(Material Design) 1:00-1:45 pm Zoom
What Disney can teach us about Compare and Contrast Writing
We all LOVE Disney, but have you ever thought of using Disney to help students understand and write compare and contrast essays? Writing is not the most favorable task of English teachers, but it is a necessity. When we think about writing, we usually think about the basic 5 types of essays-- Narrative, Descriptive, Expository, Persuasive/Argumentative, and Compare and Contrast-- written in 5 paragraphs. This can be boring for the students, as we tend to use the same topics...
Tomomi Kumai (Plenary Speaker)
Plenary Speaker- 11:00-11:45 am YouTube Live
Creating a Safe Space for Transformation: Raising Intercultural Awareness for Language Teachers and Learners
Language education takes place in the context of culture. Language educators do not only support the learners to achieve linguistic competence in the target language but also intercultural competence to communicate effectively and appropriately in a different cultural context. In order to nurture intercultural competence, a safe intercultural space is needed for it allows more sharing and learning, which then invite more...
Yunjeong Hwang
Invited Speaker- 1:00-1:45 pm YouTube Live
Essential Legal Knowledge on Employment and Labor for Expat Teachers
My presentation will aim to provide legal knowledge on unemployment for the teachers at the conference. I'd like to discuss employment issues from making an employment contract to unpaid wages and unfair dismissal based on the Labor Standards Act, Civil Act and other relevant laws and rules.
First, during my presentation, several points that an employee needs to keep in mind when drafting an employment agreement will be mentioned. Also, I'm going to...