Conference+Reflections+by+YunDing+2


 * FLE 324 TEACHING LANGUAGE SKILLS **
 * REFLECTION PAPER FORMAT **
 * // You need to prepare a reflection report based on __one of the sessions__ that you attended during the conference, covering the following points: //**
 * * Session title /topic /language skills involved in the session **** : **** Dr. Susan Barduhn and Beth Neher **
 * *The session aim **** : Facilitating Change in ELT **
 * *Session summary **** : Dr.Susan Barduhn and Beth Neher tries to explore the obstacles which blocks perspective teachers to improve their teaching skills as well as what can be done for future teacher development plans. **
 * *The things that you have heard for the first time in this sesion **** : Change process **
 * *The three main things that are highlighted in the session **** : Beliefs, Thoery and Stakeholder Task. **
 * *The language levels that you think the suggestions/ideas in the session are applicable to **** most of the teachers who are looking for a change in their teaching skills but lack of the courage to do so. **
 * * The things that you learned through this session (the new insights/understandings that you gained through this session) **** : the change process consists of three parts, first we have to find an initiating factor which will eventually lead us to a desire of changing. Secondly, we will go through a relatively process called transition. And finally, if we can keep up with our goal, we will reach a new state of being. **
 * *The ideas/suggestions in the session that you find contradictory to what you already know or believe /what have learned /about the English language teaching methodologies **** : I did not find any contradictory points in the conference, though all the presenters tried to carried out different ideas but they all were based on student-centered methodology. In my opinion all the suggestions were proposed to explore the field of teaching and what things can be made to improve our way of teaching. **
 * * The ideas / suggestions in the session that you find surprising **** : Professional Development **
 * * The points raised in the session that you agree and disagree with **** : I agree with most the points in the presentation, especially with the changing process. It is suggested that most people has had the experince of professional development in which it supports a changing process. However, no everybody understands what a change actually compse of, the purpose of this presentation is to explicit this term. **
 * * The points that you want to know more about concerning the topics introduced in the session **** : I would like to learn more about the process of professional development, how excatly does it work? **
 * * The points that you have not understood /the points that you are unclear about the session **** : There were two points that were not very clear to me, collegiality and community. I could not catch the explianation of these terms. **
 * *Two questions that you want to ask the presenter about the presentation **** : How can we initiate the changing factor? What if they resist to change? **
 * *Any ideas /suggestions in the session that you think could be directly applied in English classes in Turkey: **** Since the focus of the presentation is about development of language teachers, yes, it is appllicable to Turkish language teachers as well. **
 * * Any ideas /suggestions in the session that you think could be challenging to apply for the students and teachers in Turkish school **** : I am not sure about the implement of the methods. Everybody has their own uniqueness, the theories are only theories, the application needs careful considerations, for example teacher in rural areas would have a different perspective than teacher from big cities. **
 * * The possible contributions of this session to your understanding of the teaching/learning processes/ your methodology knowledge and your teaching style **** . Innovation is unaviodable in every career, and this is true for teaching as well. People get bored with old teaching methods, we need to constanly alter and modify the way how we teach in order to cope with the changing world. **
 * *The strong points about the presentation **** : Professional Development **
 * * The things that should be improved in the presentation **** : The presenter could have given more examples with those abstract terms. **
 * * The points that you found useful in the session **** : All the terminologies that they had mentioned was useful such as DP. **
 * * Your expectations from the session at the beginning and to what extent they are fulfilled **** : The presentation was well performed than i have expected. I have attened similar kinds of conferences but they turn out to be very broing, but this one was totally the opposite. **
 * * How are you planning to integrate the ideas that you learned in the presentation to your own teaching? **** The focus of the lesson is how teachers can make a change in their way of teaching, surely i will start thinking some of the ideas mentioned in the presentation and try to incoporate with my current skills and change the way how i teach. **

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