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Synchronous (Session) Teacher Development Workshop (75 min.)
Designing Reflective Observation Tasks for the Online Classroom
If you’re struggling with online teaching, or thinking about how to improve it, reflective practice is for you! Among the best reflective tools are tasks, particularly observation tasks. However, most of these were designed with the traditional classroom in mind. Can we still use these tasks? How? The purpose of this session is to address these questions.
This workshop will be in two parts. After briefly rehearsing some terminology, the facilitators will present tasks from some of the standard resources categorised according to their applicability to ‘the new normal’: tasks that can be used, those that can’t, and those that require adaptation. The bulk of the time will be spent in the second, highly interactive, section. Participants will work in small groups to create tasks for their own contexts. The takeaways will be tasks participants can either use or adapt as, as well as ideas for self-designed tasks. MYSTERY EASTER EGG
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Michael Free holds degrees in TESL/TEFL (MA, University of Birmingham), Music Criticism (MA, McMaster University), and Music Performance (B.Mus., University of Western Ontario). In addition, he has obtained certificates in ELT including Teaching English to Young Learners (Anaheim University) and ELT Management (TESOL Int’l Association). Michael has lived and worked in Korea for over 15 years and has taught in a broad range of contexts: public school (all grades from kindergarten through Year 2 high school), vocational (including training for winter Olympic volunteers and staff), and, most recently, university level credit courses. He is currently an invited professor at Kangwon National University, where his classes primarily happen in the Liberal Arts Dept. and the Dept. of English Language Literature.