Grazzia Mendoza Chirinos

Grazzia Mendoza Chirinos - Featured Speaker @ KOTESOL 2022

Featured Session

The Power of Collaboration: Building Networks, Connecting Educators

Collaboration is at the core of professional growth. As we engage in collaboration, we are promoting negotiation of personal and professional goals, and embarking on the journey itself. Collaboration can include sharing, exploring, and supporting; this results in creating new learning experiences for educators that translate into the best experience in the classroom. This presentation will describe how collaboration contributes to build networks and bridges of professional development, how it serves the purpose of creating engaging lessons, promoting collaborative research, and leading projects as well as building trust. It will provide examples of collaboration among teachers for teaching and professional development. Participants will leave with a set of examples and ideas that can easily be adapted to their own contexts, considering their own realities. 

Time: Saturday (April 30) 11:00 a.m. KST (50 min., Synchronous)
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Workshop Session

How to Create Engaging Lessons in Virtual Contexts

The virtual world has come to stay. Usually engagement is one of the challenges educators face in the virtual setting, plus access to tools depending on the varied contexts. This session will explore different virtual tools that can be used to promote engagement during professional development. Participants will leave with ideas on a variety of tools and activities that can be easily adapted to any teaching context. 

Time: Saturday (April 30) 10:00 a.m. KST (50 min., Synchronous)

  Biosketch

Grazzia María Mendoza Chirinos, Education Specialist at USAID Honduras, manages and designs education projects to support the Ministry of Education in ensuring access, quality of education, and safe learning spaces. She has been a language educator for 28 years and is a consultant and teacher trainer. She holds a MEd in international education and a MA in TESOL. She has held a variety of positions in K–12 as well as higher education, and has trained teachers in different parts of the world for over a decade. She is a U.S. State Department Alumni, recognized for project development for teachers’ professional growth projects, and recognized by TESOL International Association for scholarship and service through the Virginia French Allen Award. Research interests includes CALL, CBLT, and methodological improvements for professional development. She is the founder and former president of HELTA Honduras TESOL, former president of Latin America and Caribbean TESOL, and member of TESOL International Association’s board of directors, currently serving as chair of the Finance Committee. 

Select Sites
LinkedIn: Grazzia Maria Mendoza Chirinos
Grazzia Mendoza Chirinos contribution to The English Connection (Spring, 2022)

 Korea TESOL and the International Conference Committee wish to thank TESOL International Association for sponsoring Grazzia Mendoza Chirinos's participation in KOTESOL 2022.

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