Welcome to the Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter of KOTESOL
KOTESOL aims to provide professional development opportunities for teachers of English as a foreign or second language in Korea. The Jeonju-North Jeolla Chapter meets at the Jeonju University English Café at various times during the year.
Click here for our calendar of upcoming events.
Directions to the venue are here.
Click here for details about our 2010 Regional Conference
Upcoming Meetings:
| February 20th, 10:00am | Jeonju-North Jeolla Executive Meeting (All Welcome) Main items for discussion: The 2010 Budget and the May 29th Regional Conference. Jeonju University English Cafe (Click here for directions) |
| March 20th, 3:00pm | Teaching Swapshop (Free entry for all) Bring your teaching ideas and share them with the group. Walk away with a whole host of new ideas to use with your classes the following week (and beyond). If you don't have anything to share, come along anyway, there will be plenty of ideas to go around. Join us for an optional dinner after the meeting. Jeonju University English Cafe (Click here for directions) |
| March 27th, 7:00am | Road trip to the: Seoul Regional Conference The Complete Teacher We are offering a bus service directly from Jeonju University to the Seoul Regional Conference. Entry to the conference is free for pre-registered members and the bus service will cost 10,000 won for members and 15,000 won for non-members. This service is subject to a minimum number of people signing up. Click here for more details about the Seoul Regional Conference |
Previous Meetings:
NEWS ==> What happened at the annual Leadership RetreatClick here for our 2009 Calendar
For our final meeting of the year on December 12th, we featured local speaker, Nancy Jo Marcet. We also held elections for 2010 and went out for dinner together. For more details and photos, click here.
Click here for our elections guidelines.
On November 14th, we once again held a National Drama Festival. Click here for more details.
On October 24th-25th, the annual KOTESOL International Conference was held in Seoul. There was no local meeting.
On September 12th, we had a workshop by our very own Tim Dalby. 'I hate my coursebook!' was for any teacher who uses a coursebook and wants to learn how to get more from it. Click here for photos and a link to the presentation.
On June 13th, we had a presentation by Dr. Andrew Finch, a KOTESOL Teacher Trainer (KTT). The presentation was on Classroom-Based Assessment. Also joining us was Marla Wolfe to talk about Connecting with Students. For more details and links, click here.
On May 16th, we organised a bus to the KOTESOL National Conference. A fun time was had by all. Click here for some photos.
On April 11th, we were joined by Phil Owen, Immediate Past President of KOTESOL, and Jess Semararo of Jeonbuk National University. Phil's presentation was entitled, "Student-Made Videos: a Report of Successes and Problems from a Real Classroom". Jess presented a short activity for increasing adjective use. For more details, click here.
At our first meeting of 2009, on March 14th, we held a swap shop event. About 30 people came and shared their teaching ideas. For more details click here.
Our last meeting of 2008 was held on December 13th and some photos of the workshop and the dinner can be seen here. During this meeting we elected our executive officers for 2009. If you are interested in being more active in local professional development events, please contact Shawn DeLong on 010-9223-0730 or email. Click here for a list of possible roles that you could undertake.
