Using Technology in the Low-tech Classroom This workshop is a practical, hands-on experience, exploring tools that can be used in lower-tech learning contexts. It focuses on strengthening both the teaching and learning experience through the use of manageable tech-tools in contexts where technology, or easy access to it, is not always available. The workshop focuses on fostering asynchronous learning, creating engaging classrooms and increasing student engagement.
Author: IRCEELT Conferences
DR. JULI SARRIS | ENGLISH LANGUAGE FELLOW, USA
Assessment in Project-based learning (workshop) Project-based learning (PBL) has gained widespread use in language education; the research is clear that PBL enhances language skills, critical thinking skills, and 21st century skills. However, PBL is challenging to assess due to the wide variation of students’ final projects. In this workshop, the presenter will briefly discuss PBL and its advantages in the language classroom. Attendees will then engage in research-based strategies for formative and summative assessment, including peer assessment and rubric development. Methods for providing constructive and empowering feedback will also be included. Attendees will leave with assessment strategies they can use
Tammy Gregersen
Professor of TESOL (USA)
Emily Rinkema
Emily Rinkema (USA) is a proficiency-based learning coordinator in the Champlain Valley School District in Vermont, supporting standards-based instruction and learning in grades 5-12. She also co-designed and co-taught Think Tank, a class that puts high school students at the center of the educational transformation happening around them. Emily began teaching English and humanities at Champlain Valley Union HS twenty years ago, and was inspired by the progressive philosophy of the school and community from the start. While teaming in a heterogeneous tenth grade humanities class, she became obsessed with differentiated instruction and standards-based learning, applied for a sabbatical, and
Annelise Marshall
Annelise Marshall ELF (USA)
Kyla McMillan
Kyla McMillan- USA Meeting the Challenge of ChatGPT with Creativity from Students and Teachers Since it burst onto home computer screens across the world in late 2022, ChatGPT has been the talk of the town — making headlines, creating whispers in technology circles, and becoming the center of a debate in education. ChatGPT was immediately labeled the enemy in The End of High-School English (Herman, 2022) and banned in New York City schools (Yang, 2023). However, the fact of the matter is, ChatGPT and similar A.I. chatbots are here to stay. As educators, how can we meet this new challenge and prepare
Ori Z Soltes
Teaching Professor at Center for Jewish Civilization In Plato’s Cratylus, the question of what words and names are and what language is found their first articulation in Western thought. What is so important to Socrates and Plato–being able to understand what truth, justice, happiness–and ultimately the Good–are requires language. Without it, they imply, we cannot think. Without it we certainly can’t have the dialogues with others necessary to come to a clearer understanding of the world and our place within it. Over the next 2500 years, that perception is expanded by an understanding of the role of words in grammar and syntax (thanks to the
Lottie Baker
Regional English Language Officer, USA
Meghan Moran
Northern Arizona University, USA Meghan Moran is a Lecturer in the English Department at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA. She received her PhD in Applied Linguistics from NAU in 2016. Her research interests include speech production and perception, L2 pronunciation and intelligibility, language planning and policy, language education policy, and linguistic discrimination. In her position as Lecturer, she teaches first year composition, mentors Graduate Teaching Assistants, and
Dr. Rawlins Williams
East Tennessee State University, USA Dr. Lee Ann Rawlins Williams presently serves as Assistant Professor and Program Director of Rehabilitative Health Sciences (RHSC-BS) at East Tennessee State University. Her academic experience includes work with graduate and undergraduate programs focusing on disability and rehabilitation at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Auburn University. In addition, her professional experiences include work in the field of rehabilitation in the areas of blindness and low vision, general rehabilitation counseling, human resource training/development,