Keynote: One For All And All For One by Tyson SeburnAt its core, the 30 Goals Challenge inspires teacher development individually and as a connected group, in either order and for both ends. This same reflexive process beautifully draws students into their own learning—a reminder this talk will explore and exemplify.
As a LANGUAGE TEACHER IN HIGHER EDUCATION, I focus on meaningfully engaging students with their L2 reading for stronger application of academic writing skills. To do so, my colleagues at the University of Toronto, New College, and I first implemented a literature circle activity in our classes in 2010. Since then, this activity has evolved into the Academic Reading Circles included in the book of the same name (http://bit.ly/round-arc).
As a TEACHER WITHIN THE ELT COMMUNITY, I am driven to create new public spaces for and aid self-directed action among language teachers to increase agency in their own development paths. One approach towards this has been through 4CinELT (http://fourc.ca), a site I designed, manage, and write ELT blog posts for. This public space houses a comprehensive and largely crowd-sourced event calendar (http://fourc.ca/calendar). I also founded #eapchat/#tleap (http://bit.ly/tleap), a community of practitioners from around the world, who discuss issues in teaching and learning English for academic purposes (EAP). Most locally, I have served three years as President of TESL Toronto (http://tesltoronto.org) and chaired its annual conference of 400+ teachers, TOSCON (e.g. http://bit.ly/toscon15) three times. |
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