Curriculum-Building for Student Workshops
“I decided to focus on just three important elements: choosing a topic, planning, and audience experience.”
Tag: teaching
Playfulness: In Teaching and Learning
Learning a second language is time-consuming hard work. We do not usually think of it as something enjoyable. But maybe that is where our thinking has gone wrong. Bryan Hale is an advocate for “playfulness” in EFL teaching and learning whom we were recently able to interview on the topic. Bryan teaches at Yeongam High School. He is presently the president of Korea TESOL and a past president of the Gwangju-Jeonnam KOTESOL Chapter.
Teaching and Learning . . . and Well-being
When we think about teaching and learning, we think of all the time and effort teachers put into lesson planning and the ever-present administrative work, and we think of all the time students spend hunched over their textbooks, doing homework, and cramming for tests. Little do we think of our own well-being or that of our students.
Teacher Training at JIEI:The Jeollanamdo International English Institute
Interview by Dr.David Shaffer. In this issue of the Gwangju News, we have decided to interview two members of the GwangjuJeonnam Chapter of KOTESOL who are teacher trainers at the … Read More
Why Do L1 English Speakers Teach in Korea?
Written by Dr. David E. Shaffer There are an estimated 24,000 native English-speaking English teachers in South Korea. Regardless of how accurate that figure may be, there are a lot! … Read More
Just What Is “Communicative” Teaching?
Written by Dr. David E. Shaffer If you are a teacher of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Korea, you have probably been asked, “What teaching method do … Read More
Giving Back Feedback in the Classroom
Dr. David Shaffer covers the important but sensitive area of giving feedback in the classroom
Dear Freshmen: Tips and Tricks for Living in Gwangju and Korea
C. Adam Volle has created a transparent survival guide on how to best make yourself at home when moving to our wonderful city of Gwangju