Date: Saturday, September 9th 2017
Time: 10:00am~1:00pm
Place: Teacher Training Center (교사교육센터), Rm. 101, Gyeongin National University of Education, Gyeonggi (Anyang) Campus
Topics: 1. "Back Pocket Games" and How to Improvise When Tech Fails
2. What Works?
Details:
The Suwon-Gyeonggi KOTESOL chapter’s September workshop features two speakers, Cameron Thomson presenting ““Back Pocket Games" and How to Improvise When Tech Fails” and Leonie Overbeek presenting “What Works?”
As always, attendance is free and refreshments will be provided.
Questions or comments may be directed to the Suwon-Gyeonggi KOTESOL chapter president Tyler Clark at sparkyclarky@gmail.com.
More detailed directions may be found at https://koreatesol.org/DirectionsGyeonginGyeonggi.
Abstracts:
“Back Pocket Games" and How to Improvise When Tech Fails
This presentation will cover what to do when technology fails us and how to improvise in the classroom. These days, it's extremely easy to become overly reliant on modern technology as a supplement to teaching. But, as most of us have experienced, technology is not perfect and when it fails, we can be left with nothing to do. In this workshop, we will explore how to improvise different activities with the materials provided in our textbooks as well as the concept of "back pocket games," activities that can be easily executed with simple, on-hand classroom materials.
“What Works?”
The process of learning anything is one that has generated many theories and practical methodology over the years. Learning a language in particular has many different methods and pieces of advice to teachers and learners. Yet, despite research results and latest input from neuroscience, teachers and learners still hold on to ideas about language learning that often have limited effectiveness, frustrating methods and stilted textbooks. In this presentation three ideas about language learning and how to use these in the classroom will be presented: Comprehensible Input, Scaffolded Production and Active Practice. This presentation is suitable for elementary, secondary, university, and adult learners.
Speaker Bios:
Cameron "Chewy" Thomson is a Native English Teacher at Yongcheon Elementary School in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do. He currently teaches grades 3 through 6, though he has had the great pleasure to teach middle and high school Korean students at previous jobs and has also dabbled in teaching adults. In addition, he has taught university freshmen in Canada, where he received a BA Honours Double Major in English and Communications from York University in Toronto and an MA in Communications from Carleton University in Ottawa. He is currently a GEPIK Mentor and enjoys long walks on the beach, collecting Famicom games and sleeping late on Sundays.
Leonie Overbeek has studied chemistry, engineering, mineral science, and communications. She has worked in Korea for ten years at middle and elementary school level. She believes in never being too old to learn, exploring new ideas, and always striving for more. She has recently been doing work with a children's reader she hopes to use in the Korean context.
