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Biography
David Deubelbeiss, B.Ed. , M.Ed. (TEFL) is a teacher, writer and runner. He is an educator with over 17 years experience teaching ESL / EFL to all levels and ages.
He has taught and presented internationally including - Korea, Canada, France, the Czech Republic, Ukraine and Russia. He has trained teachers since 1997, focusing on basic teaching skills. Currently, he is giving professional development courses within the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education and at the Seoul Education Training Institute.
David is an educational leader in the field of Web 2.0 learning and an avid creator of instructional material. He shares his resources through his online community EFL Classroom 2.0 (http://eflclassroom.ning.com). He shares the simple teaching philosophy of inspiring both teachers and learners, believing "when one teaches, two learn".
His presentation topics are:
1. Learning 2.0- Participatory learning and bringing the 21st century into our classrooms
“School didn’t teach me to read – I learned from my games”
-- a student
Today’s students are no longer passive receptacles of knowledge. They are “prosumers” – both producing and consuming knowledge to achieve the higher goal of understanding. The classroom no longer has one authority and the classroom no longer has 4 walls. Learning is now about participation, individual expression and quality – not passivity, mass consumption and quantity.
This lecture outlines how the new learning will look and offer examples of how English language instruction needs to change to meet the demands of the new “digital natives” (Marc Prensky, 2001) and “netizens” (M. Hauben, 1996). Many examples of language learning, “anytime, anywhere, anyhow” will be illustrated.
Teachers are encouraged to ask questions and resources from the presenter’s own international language learning website will be detailed.
2. Teaching with ONLY a Blank Piece of Paper
Teachers learn to teach primarily through their own thousands of hours of observation and participation as students. We teach as we were taught.
This salient fact is responsible for the difficulty in getting teachers to change
their teaching philosophy and delivery.
The world changes and we can’t continue to teach as we were taught. Open the textbook, do the exercises, repeat, check and review – this does not fit the 21st century notion of “social” or participatory learning. We need an approach that is effective in fostering student centred and communicative language teaching. An approach that forces teachers to teach in a fashion that stresses the student’s world, life and interests. We need to break the cycle of “teaching as we were taught.”
This workshop proposes that it is essential for teachers to learn to “let go” of the textbook and shift the balance from teacher and text centric learning to student and language production centred learning through the adoption of a low resource threshold -- using only one sheet of blank paper.
In this workshop teachers will be shown many examples of how to create vibrant and communicative language lessons using the student’s own “world” as the content and fuel of language acquisition. A free ebook of lessons demonstrating the power of “teaching with only a blank piece of paper” will be given to all participants.
3. Teaching and the Art of Questioning
The art of questioning students is the foundation of all good teaching practice. It provides for both assessment and student growth (learning) and is the core of the scientific method and how we learn.
Yet, teachers spend comparably little time, learning how to ask questions or make questions which lead to effective teaching. Moreover, many teachers spend little time developing this fundamental skill in their students. You can't have "real" communication without questions yet so many students gain English competence in this – too far along their learning curve to benefit.
This workshop will address both aspects of questioning.
Part 1 – How to deliver questions as a teacher?
Assessing students through questions.
Part 2 - Activities to promote question making skills in our students.
4. The Sandbox Theory of Language Learning
An inductive approach to communicative teaching
English language teachers (ELTs) in Korean schools are faced with the difficult task of getting their students speaking. A lot of that difficulty stems not just from the student’s side but from an incorrect teaching approach. Inductive teaching methodology offers the public school teacher a liberating path towards creating students that will risk and play in the sandbox that language represents.
This workshop offers a rationale for inductive teaching methodology in Korean public schools and also have teachers playing the role of students and creating activities inductively – in the sandbox that language represents.
5. Text to Speech: Liberating the Learner!
Text to Speech has generally been thought of as an interesting but technologically frustrating and difficult teaching application. Yet, in its simplest form, it is the most powerful of tools available to any teacher.
This workshop shows many strategies for using TTS in the English language classroom and demonstrate how teachers can motivate their students and encourage dynamic, multimodal, 21st century, digital learning.
Workshop Needs: Computer / Audio and Internet Connection, Whiteboard .
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