Join us on January 8 for a special workshop by KOTESOL President Bryan Hale!
Saturday, January 8
2-3 p.m. (KST) Classrooms Are Complex (Even During COVID!): Strategies for Embracing Complexity
Bryan Hale (Jeonnam Foreign Language High School)
3-3:30 p.m. (KST) Social time!
To attend, click here to open the embedded Zoom link. The Zoom room will be open starting at 1:50 p.m.
(No typos in the Zoom link this time, we promise!)
About the Presentation
Classrooms Are Complex (Even During COVID!): Strategies for Embracing Complexity
A question for you: whether you’re teaching in person or online, do you think of the classrooms or virtual spaces in which you teach as “complex”? In what ways? If we asked this question of others such as learners, administrators, or edtech designers, would they have the same answers? Perhaps you feel that, during the pandemic, some of the complexity of your teaching spaces has been denied or stifled. In this session, we will (lightly!) explore some of the understandings on offer from complex dynamic systems theory and then discuss several strategies for teaching, planning, and classroom management that embrace the complex properties of learning spaces and allow for authentic learning to emerge. These strategies can be useful for both in-person and online teaching and might be helpful in responding to and working around some of the limitations imposed during the pandemic.
About the Presenter
Bryan Hale is an English language teacher from Australia. He currently teaches at Jeonnam Foreign Language High School, and his previous experience includes both public and hagwon teaching with all age groups, but especially teenagers. Bryan has a Master of Applied Linguistics (TESOL) through the University of New England in Australia. He is particularly interested in playfulness and spontaneity in the English as a foreign language classroom. Bryan is the current national president of KOTESOL; his previous roles within the organization include Gwangju-Jeonnam Chapter president, Reflective Practice SIG co-facilitator, and KOTESOL first vice-president.
