Teacher and Professional Development General Professional Development Workshop
Moving Through and Moving On: Pivot, Reflect, Develop, and Grow
The turbulence of the 2020 academic year onwards has taught us how to react, reflect, and respond. Reacting to the abrupt pivot from face-to-face classes to online. And back again. Yet simultaneously serving as lighthouses for students by providing stability in a world of uncertainty by developing coping mechanisms and renewing our professional skill set. This workshop provides a platform in which teachers can reflect upon their experiences with teaching during the pandemic and how they overcame these herculean challenges through discussions and reflective dialogues. These discussions and dialogues will be divided into four sections – pivot, reflect, develop, and grow.
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Chhayankdhar Singh Rathore is a lecturer in the Department of English for Global Communication in the Faculty of Global Studies at Konan Women's University. He currently serves as the Co-coordinator of the Performance in Education (PIE) SIG. His areas of interest include performance in education, language acquisition, TESOL, CLIL, sociolinguistics, and World Englishes. Within performance in education, he is involved in the use of process drama, roleplays, debate, and presentation in English language classrooms.
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Eucharia Donnery (PhD) is an associate professor at the World Language Center, Soka University, Tokyo. Her background includes process drama in SLA, intercultural communicative competence (ICC) and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), as well as colonial discourse and feminist theory. Other interests include reading, running and Muay Thai kickboxing.