Eunjee Ko – Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2024
Featured Session
Exploring the 2022 Revised National English Curriculum: Deciphering What to Teach and How to Teach It
This presentation delves into the 2022 revised curriculum, a competency-based educational framework. The exploration encompasses the definition and types of competencies, along with strategies for their development. Key ideas, serving as macro generalizations and forming the foundation for deep learning, are examined. Additionally, micro key ideas, representing micro-level generalizations, are introduced, involving the utilization of three essential elements: knowledge and understanding, processes and skills, and values and attitudes. The approach adopted revolves around concept-based curriculum and instruction (CBCI), drawing upon its principles to guide the nuanced understanding of deep learning through both macro and micro key ideas. The methodology illustrates the construction of inquiry questions that facilitate learner agency, empowering them to independently explore and draw conclusions related to key ideas. Specifically, the application of this methodology generates three types of inquiry questions: factual questions, conceptual questions, and debatable questions. Through this exploration, the aim is to address crucial questions: What should be taught, pertaining to macro and micro-level key ideas? The focus extends to how to teach key ideas, emphasizing student-centered inquiry with the use of inquiry questions. This endeavor provides insights into effective teaching strategies within the competency-based education framework.
Invited Second Session
What Is “Deep Learning” in the 2022 Revised English Curriculum: A Reflection on Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction
This study explores the design of the English education curriculum as concept-based curriculum and instruction (CBCI) to achieve “deep learning” highlighted in the 2022 revised curriculum. Conducting a literature review on CBCI and the concept-based teaching methodology in the International Baccalaureate program, the analysis of the 2022 English curriculum was undertaken to extract knowledge-based concepts grounded in the structures of knowledge and process. Process-based concepts were also derived from the domain of Understanding and Expression within the English subject. Building on these findings, the study proposes a statement for exploring the English curriculum with meaningful conceptual understanding, utilizing checklists and scaffolding methods from CBCI. In conclusion, the study offers suggestions for restructuring the English education curriculum based on CBCI, providing guidance for teachers to enhance their expertise in redesigning units and lesson plans aligned with the 2022 revised curriculum's emphasis on deep learning.
Biosketch
Eunjee Ko is a dedicated educator and Namseoul University lecturer for the IB Educator Certificate course, with 15 years of experience as an English teacher in the Chungnam Provincial Office of Education. Contributing to the academic community as a Korean freelance translator and revisor for the IB’s MEP Department, she holds IB MYP and DP Educator certificates and an MA in teaching English as a foreign language from IGSE in Korea. Focusing on the 2022 revised curriculum, concept-based curriculum and instruction (CBCI), and IB education, Eunjee is currently pursuing a doctoral program at Korea National University of Education, exploring curriculum development intricacies and teacher training aspects. A Gold Prize recipient at MELTA’s 5th MIRCELE Conference, she aspires to share valuable insights with Korean English teachers, emphasizing both curriculum reconstruction and teacher training.
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Eunjee Ko: LinkedIn.
뷰티 영어 회화 [Authored Book].
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