Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn
Oct. 12-15 2012, Act City, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
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Marcos will outline his how his experience as an ESL learner influenced his approach to teaching, and in turn how both continue to inform his work as a writer of ELT materials. This presentation will be of interest to most teachers at any level, but especially to those who want to explore some of the complex connections between learners, teachers, and coursebooks.
Bio: Marcos co-authored Widgets: A task-based course in practical English (Pearson, 2008) and Fiction in Action: Whodunit (Abax, 2010). He is currently series editor for the upcoming Choose Your Own Adventure graded reader series (McGraw-Hill, 2012). He has received the Duke of Edinburgh English Book Award and the British Council International Award for Innovation, both for Whodunit. It was the first time that a coursebook written in Japan has won either award, and the second time in history that one book has won both. He currently lives in Tokyo and teaches at J.F. Oberlin University.
We stand at the front of our classrooms looking at our students, hoping to understand what they are thinking about our thoughtfully chosen materials and our carefully created activities. Observing students in this way can help us build a picture of what they do, but it cannot really help us understand what they think or feel. As an alternative, occasional short questionnaires combined with short regular student reflections can provide a small but useful window into our students' minds and hearts. This workshop will illustrate how to create and use such questionnaires and student reflections in your classroom, to better understand your own teaching and your students' learning.
Bio: Robert Croker is a professor in the Faculty of Policy Studies at Nanzan University, and co-editor of Qualitative Research in Applied Linguistics: A Practical Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
This one-day mini-conference hosted by Shizuoka JALT and the JALT Teacher Education and Development(TED) Special Interest Group is intended to spark new conversations around the broad theme of EFL Teacher Journeys. Presentations will recount stories of teacher journeys, either the presenter’s own, those of students or classes, or other teachers.
For more details, including the Call for Presentations (March 31 deadline) visit the conference website https://sites.google.com/site/teacherjourneys/home
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