Hello everyone out there. I just finished up 2 Saturdays in Daegu doing a training for a TESOL certification course. As usual it was a lot of hard work, long hours, and my feet killing me but I had so much fun and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was a small group of participants, 6-7 new teachers.
Everyone came from different academic backgrounds and even a different country. We had business majors, university students, no teaching experience, and even a Russian linguistics major! It was amazing to see people from different backgrounds coming together and wanting to teach. No matter their reason for wanting to teach everyone was passionate and driven to learn (and acquire lol) teaching skills.
As usual we tried to slam 2 years of undergrad pedagogy and experience into a few short weeks. It was amazing to see everyone process so much information and try to make sense of it in such a short time. Trust me… I know the feeling. At times I even felt overwhelmed with the amount of information flying across the room.
I feel really lucky to be able to be a teacher trainer at a time where the education system in Korea is shifting education paradigms. There is so much growth, exploration, and melding of the old and the new (kid like Bhabha’s 3rd space of cultural interaction but for education… sorry for the bad geeky joke!) I digress.
Below are all of my materials from the last 2 Saturdays please feel free to download and use the materials but just make sure not to sell them… well, at least cut me in on the profit lol j/k. As usual feel free to leave comments, insights, questions, and what not below.
Week 1 Framework Lecture PPT
Week 1 Framework Lecture Handout
Week 2 PDP Lesson Planning PPT
Toy Story Listening Plan
PDP Lesson Demo Reflection Form
PDP Blank Lesson Plan Form
A life of Teaching 