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Volume 14, Number 2 September 2008 About Seoul KOTESOL The Official Newsletter of KOTESOL Seoul Chapter From Egg Crate to Omelet: Making Our Teaching Community Property (From his presentation at the 2007 KOTESOL International Conference) Dr. Neil J. Anderson Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA Classroom teaching can be a very private activity. Teachers and classrooms have been compared to an egg crate (Lortie, 1975) where teachers enter the privacy of their classrooms and practice their “craft” without others being aware of what is going on. Each classroom stays in its compartment of the egg crate and does not come in contact with others. Instead of viewing our work as an egg crate, let’s search for excellence in our teaching by considering how we can make an omelet. Making our teaching public requires us to open our classrooms up and mix with other teachers. By interacting with other teachers and making our teaching public we can improve how we approach challenging issues and increase student learning. In an essay by Shulman (2004, p. 456) he describes the feelings that he experienced as a new Ph.D. He imagined himself doing two things as a new professor. First, he imagined himself working in “splendid isolation” (p. 455) as a researcher in the stacks of the library. Second, he imagined himself “interacting with others, in the classroom and elsewhere, as a teacher” (p. 455). He then said, What I didn’t understand as a new Ph.D. was that I had it backwards! We experience isolation not in the stacks but in the classroom. We close the classroom door and experience pedagogical solitude, whereas in our life as scholars, we are members of active communities: communities of conversation, communities of evaluation, communities in which we gather with others in our invisible colleges to exchange our findings, our methods, and our excuses. (p. 455) How do we move from the isolation of teaching in what might be viewed as an egg crate to more interaction and dialogue about our teaching that might be viewed as an omelet? I suggest that the omelet will result through more focused teacher development and enhanced professional development of teachers. Specifically, we make the transition by (1) establishing a community of practice where talking about our teaching is a daily event and (2) making our teaching and our thinking about our teaching “community property” (Shulman, 2004, p. 456). (Egg Crate, cont. on pg 6) ASK About Seoul KOTESOL September 2008 KOTESOL Seoul Chapter Executive Contents 2008-2009 Page(s) Front Page: Enquiries: [email protected] Egg Crate to Omelet by Dr. Anderson…1, 6-10 KOTESOL Seoul Chapter Information: President: Frank Kim Chapter information………………………..… ..2 Cell: 010-2344-9774 President’s Message………………………... ….3 Email: [email protected] Fall Festivals………………………………… …3 Professional Website Links………..……… ... 4 Vice President 1: Jennifer Young, Conference Announcements……………… ....4 Elite Education ASK Newsletter Contents: Editor’s Note…………………………….… ….5 Vice President 2: Bruce Wakefield, Chapter Workshop Notes: July 19……… …..5 Kyonggi University 16th KOTESOL Int’l. Conf. Info………… …10 Email: [email protected] Asian Storytelling by Cathy Spagnoli…..11-12 Cell: 019-808-5332 Radio Show by Jennifer Young………....13-14 Conference Review by Annie Sirgey…. 14-15 Secretary: Grace Wang, Teachers In Action Yonsei University Check It Out Book Review……..……….16-17 SIG: Extensive Reading.……………………18 Treasurer: Ksan Rubadeau, KTT ……………………………….……….....18 Korea University KOTESOL Website……………………….…18 Workshop Coordinator: Don Payzant Email: [email protected] Call for Articles Cell: 010-3037-8398 Seoul Chapter is looking for contributors for the newsletter About Seoul KOTESOL (ASK). ASK ASK Editor: Dionne Silver, accepts submissions on a continuing basis. Topics should be relevant to teaching English in Korea. They Sookmyung Women’s University may include: Email: [email protected] Useful teaching tips Practical suggestions for the classroom Membership Coordinator & Teacher Training Webmaster: Annie Sirgey, Sogang Current issues in ELT University Reviews of ELT-related theory Teaching anecdotes Others Publicity Chair: Vacant Hospitality Chair: Vacant Feature article should be 1200-1500 words. We will accept longer articles, although they may be edited to an appropriate length or published in segments. Short Immediate Past President: Mary-Jane featured articles should be 500-700 words. Reviews Scott, Soongsil University of books or events are also welcomed. These can be up to 700 words. Submissions will be acknowledged within one month ASK is edited for length and style. It is of receiving them. You may be asked to make editorial policy to publish diverse content changes in text or format in accordance with our publishing standards. and opinion. It is also the policy of ASK to publish only not-for-profit or For further information, please contact the ASK editor educational advertisement related to ELT at [email protected]. issues. 2 ASK About Seoul KOTESOL September 2008 President’s Message By Frank Kim, KOTESOL Seoul Chapter President Friends, are you ready for another period of teaching and new challenges? I am sure you all are. I think challenges are what keep us busy and focused. Our July workshop was a crowd-pleaser. Despite the horrible weather, we packed our room and Dr. Jeong-ryeul Kim, who was the plenary speaker at Daejeon-Chungcheong Chapter’s symposium, came all the way from Choongju to give a presentation on “The Future Trends in Korean EFL.” His well-researched presentation was received well by the attendees and his presentation was also followed by a much anticipated Q&A session that allowed people attending to get some clear answers to their long-waited questions. For our September workshop, we have Scott Miles and Aaron Jolly lined up to strut their stuff on “Extensive Reading.” And we are sure that it will be another hit like the previous one by Dr. Kim. During my presidency, I will try my best to bring you a string of the best presenters who will share their expertise with us. Our chapter is doing very well, but we still need your help. Please show us your support by coming to workshops regularly and providing us with your constructive suggestions. I hope to see you at our monthly workshops. Frank Kim, President of Seoul Chapter Fall Festivals Around Korea Aug 29-Sept 7: Geumsan Insam Festival http://www.geumsan.go.kr/festival/autumn_main.jsp September: Seogwipo Chilsimni Festival www.infojeju.com Geumsan Ginseng Festival http://insamfestival.co.kr Chungju World Martial Arts Festival www.chungju.chungbuk.kr Punggi Ginseng Festival 054-639-6391 October: Andong International Mask Dance Festival www.maskdance.com Gimje Horizon Festival www.egimje.net Yangyang Pine Mushroom Festival www.yangyang-gun.gangwon.kr/festival Busan Jagalchi Festival www.chagalchi.co.kr Jinju Namgang Lantern Festival 055-749-5072 Nangye Traditional Korean Music Festival http://nangye.yd21.go.kr/festival/festival_01.html Icheon Rice Festival 031-644-2602 Ganggyeong Salted Seafood Festival www.nonsan.chungnam.kr Gwangju Kimchi Festival http://english.tour2korea.com/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_2_2.jsp?cid=293204 3 ASK About Seoul KOTESOL September 2008 KOREA-WIDE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS KOTESOL Seoul Chapter Workshop. Extensive Reading. September 20, 2008 KELTA 2008 Conference Standards-Based Assessment for English Language Learners September 27, 2008, Hannam University, Daejeon. PKETA Conference. (Pan Korea English Teachers Association) Teaching and Testing English for Global Communication. Oct. 11, 2008. Pusan National University. Busan. http://www.pketa.org/english/index2.html KOTESOL 2008 The 16th Korea TESOL International Conference, Seoul, October 25- 26, 2008. Responding to a Changing World. Sookmyung Women’s University. www.kotesol.org The 2008 Symposium on Extensive Reading in Korean EFL-Thanksgiving Dinner Event, Nov. 22, 2008, Korea Nazarene University, Cheonan-Asan. Dr. Richard Day will be the featured speaker. Call for Proposals deadline Aug. 29th. http://www.kotesol.org/?q=node/607 Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK) International Conference 30 Years of Applied Linguistics in Korea, December 6, 2008, Seoul National University, Seoul. http://www.alak.or.kr/main/ 2008 Korea Ass'n of Foreign Languages Education (KAFLE) Conference Foreign Language Teachers' Professional Development, December 13, 2008, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul http://www.kafle.or.kr/ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS IATEFL China 4th International Annual Conference TEFL: New Trends and Challenges, September 25-29, 2008, Tonghua, Jilin Province, China, http://www.iateflchina.com/ CLESOL 2008: The 11th National Conference on Community Languages and ESOL Language and Identity: Building Communities of Learning, October 2-5, 2008, Auckland, New Zealand http://www.clesol.org.nz/2008/home.html 2008 International Conference on Primary English English for Young Learners: Putting Theory into Effective, Dynamic Practice, October 18- 20, 2008, Beijing, China http://www.chinabfle.org/YLP/en/ PAC7 at JALT2008: 34th Annual International Conference on Language, Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Expo, Shared Identities: Our Interweaving Threads, October 31 - Nov. 3, Tokyo, Japan http://www.jalt.org/conference/ GLoCALL 2008: Go Global, Go Local, Organized by APACALL & PacCALL, November 7- 9, 2008 in Jakarta; November 10-12 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia http://www.glocall.org English and Asia: First Intern'l Conference