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Claudia Tumba
Claudia Tumba
Claudia Tumba, a passionate EFL instructor, transitioned from law to education after relocating to South Korea. With a decade of experience, she has worked at various institutions, including universities and after-school programs. Claudia is dedicated to innovative teaching methods, creating materials like "Sounds Clear" and exploring the potential of rap in the classroom. She is currently writing bilingual children's books to further enhance language learning in South Korea
Title: From Bibimbap to Phonics: A New Twist on English Language Teaching
Discover an innovative approach to make English learning fun and culturally relevant for Korean elementary students. The K-dish ABCs book offers a unique blend of phonics, pronunciation, and cultural immersion, transforming familiar Korean dishes into engaging language learning tools. Join Claudia Tumba as she shares practical strategies for integrating Korean food with English lessons, from the sizzling sounds of bibimbap to the sweet aroma of ddeokbokki. By connecting English learning with beloved Korean cuisine, educators can inspire and motivate students, fostering a deeper understanding of both language and culture.
Daniel Moonasar
Daniel Moonasar
Daniel Moonasar has been a proud purveyor of educational chaos and pusher for paradigm change for two decades, holding teaching and training roles in the U.S. and Korea. Currently, he serves as a teacher trainer for the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Institute for Global Education. While he holds an MRes in Educational and Social Research and a B.S. in K-12 Music Education, he thinks it's way cooler to wield the transformative power of education to help unlock his peers’ and students’ potential, enabling them to think critically, engage globally, and hopefully leave the world a little better than they found it. When he’s not busy traveling around Gyeonggi-do, visiting schools for observations, professional development, or teacher support, Daniel can usually be found decoding the mysteries of Global Citizenship Education, Digital Media Literacy, and the Korean educational curriculum or in a state of hyperfocus, researching and plotting his next novel classroom adventure, and when he can, crafting glocally made Konglish Ajaegaegeu.
Title: A Practical Look at GCE in Korea
The term “Global Citizenship Education” (GCE) might sound like a trendy catchphrase that comes with a 3-month free trial and premium access to a curriculum that will transform your students overnight. But in reality, it’s about equipping students to develop an inclusive growth mindset, navigate their lives skillfully, and engage with the world around them critically, whether they’re traveling the globe or staying in their hometown. In this lecture, we’ll try to clear up common GCE misconceptions and break down what GCE looks like in the context of Korean schools, examine real classroom examples, and discuss how GCE can fit into your classroom without derailing your syllabus or your sanity. Whether you’re a veteran teacher, new to the field, or somewhere in between, you’ll leave with a better understanding of GCE in Korea, ideas to take back to your classroom, and—if I really knock it out of the park—maybe even a renewed sense of agency.
Stewart Gray
Stewart Gray
Stewart Gray is currently a teacher of English language and literature, Applied Linguistics, and related subjects at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Previously, he taught English in Korea for twelve years. He is a former president of the Yongin KOTESOL Chapter.
Title: Designing Tasks and Materials
No matter how many years you teach, designing tasks and materials for class remains a challenging business. How can I make a task that will be fun for students? How can I create materials that will catch their attention and support their learning? The purpose of this workshop is to refresh teachers on some commonly known (but persistently tricky) principles that underlie the design of effective classroom tasks and materials in all kinds of contexts. I will draw on a variety of examples from my own practice as a teacher of English and other subjects to illustrate the aforementioned principles. Teachers working in various settings will come away with some ideas to guide their own task/material design, as well as some specific task ideas to take home.
Christina Tsoy
Christina Tsoy
Christina Tsoy, a junior teacher, currently works at a Hagwon, teaching elementary school children. She is a graduate of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Her teaching career began 2 years ago. The experience she has gained during this time, has given her the opportunity to make her first presentation in the field of pedagogy.
Title: Student attitudes towards language learning
How do you interest students in your subject? How do you motivate them? Teachers often think about these questions. And now with students’ quick and easy access to information, motivating students is becoming more and more difficult. Working with students allowed me to see not only their abilities and analytical mindset, but also different feelings and emotions. It is amazing to observe how students’ attitudes towards learning affect their emotions, which ultimately affects their language skills. In my presentation, I want to share my experience and observations. From my experience, I realized; if you help a student change his attitude towards learning, it will give him the necessary impetus and motivation to achieve his goals.
Tip Landoll
Tip Landoll
Tip has taught at numerous universities and businesses in Japan and Korea as well as juvenile delinquents, Buddhist monks, the International Graduate School of Design and Packaging, the National Research Foundation, libraries, and everything from kindergarten to high school. He has a background in cultural anthropology, dance, and economics, and is currently retired and living in Yongin.
Title: 50 Years on - Reflections on half a century as a teacher
They say experience is the best teacher, but it’s also the students and mentors who inform us. If you stay in the business long enough, you have to learn something. Sadly, I still don’t have all the answers. I doubt that I have all the questions. But maybe it’s enough to know that those questions exist, and because they exist, I still persist in pondering the students who posed some of those questions for me. We’ve all had them: the students who just by being there make us stop and reflect on what it is we’re really doing. Please come and share some of the journey.
Gregory S. Lewis
Gregory S. Lewis
Greg has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a Masters in Applied Linguistics. However, Greg is now retired after teaching and training English language learners of all ages in Korea for 20 years. Prior to life in Korea, Greg had a life in Canada where he practiced his entrepreneurial skills and squeezed in a little theater work and sculpting whenever he got the chance.
Title: A.I. Swap Meet
Every day teachers around the globe seek and test out new tools to keep language learning and practice in line with modern classroom goals and objectives. In keeping with the KOTESOL theme of “Teachers helping Teachers” we will discuss and explore individual experiences of success and challenge in the use of A.I. tools.
The advent of A.I. has added a new complexity and sometimes questionable value to classroom teaching and learning. Concerned parents of young learners often limit the use of technology thus stifling the future safe use of tools like A.I., while university students grapple with how to avoid misuse of A.I., and teachers are just trying to keep up with the rapid rate of change. This discussion and workshop will explore the A.I. tools that the facilitator and participants have had experience using, and share the successes and challenges encountered along the way.
“We are at an inflection point in history where we
can shift the use of AI in education in the right direction.”
Erika Twani
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