KOTESOL Busan Chapter Meeting: Radically Improve Your Teaching With Learner Surveys
Pete - Fri, 2009-03-13 09:53
Greetings Educators!
March is here and the Busan Gyungnam KOTESOL chapter will kick off this back-to-school month with another engaging meeting and workshop on the 21st. Whether you are looking for networking opportunities or professional development, this month's meeting is sure to meet your needs.
On the agenda for this month's meeting:
1. An introduction of the new 2009 executive council members.
2. A brief recap of the KOTESOL National Council meeting that took place recently in Seoul.
3. A lecture on learner-informed teaching (see below for more details).
Feel free to bring a friend and we hope to see you there!
BG KOTESOL
Workshop Title: Learner-informed teaching: How a simple survey can radically change your teaching approach.
Who: Tim Dalby - Korea TESOL's 1st Vice-President, Jeonju University
When: March 21st, 2pm
Where: ESS, Nampodong
Cost: Free (non-members are encouraged to join after attending a few meetings)
Workshop Synopsis:
How good is our teaching and how can we improve it? To answer these questions we usually have formal evaluations from our institutions, observations from senior teachers, or some other similar method.
However, at Jeonju University five teachers got together and decided to ask the students. The results were not only surprising; they were also informative and motivating and led to great changes in the methods we used in the conversation classroom. This presentation will help you see the benefits of targeted surveys, how to design them and how to use them for maximum benefit. Really, it's not as scary as you might think!
Biography:
Tim Dalby holds an M.A. (with distinction) in English Language Teaching from The University of Reading in the UK. Originally from Portsmouth, England, Tim has been teaching English since the summer of 2000. He has taught in Korea, New Zealand and the Czech Republic in a variety of contexts including business English, general English, EAP, FCE, CAE, IELTS, TOEIC and TOEFL. He has been a head teacher and a teacher trainer and is Korea TESOL's 1st Vice-President and co-chair of its next National Conference in May 2009. He currently teaches at Jeonju University.
Directions: On the 4th floor of the ESS in Nampo Dong: Take Line 1 (Orange Line) to Nampodong Station #111, exit #7 (unmarked), turn left around the corner, the building is on the left. If you can't find ESS, call 010 3901-7373 and ask for Pete.