Reflecting on Critical Incidents to Enhance Your Teaching Performance
Join us online for an evening with the Korea TESOL Reflective Language Teacher Award 2025 Winner - Christopher Miller.
John Dewey (1933) famously claimed that the core predispositions for engaging in reflection are open-mindedness, wholeheartedness, and responsibility. Critical incidents (CI) have been celebrated as a useful construct for engaging in reflective practice by general educators (Bolton and Delderfield, 2018; Brookfield, 1995) and ELT practitioners (Farrell, 2015). This workshop will report on the presenter’s experience with in-depth reflective writing that made use of CI(s) as a starting point for more deeply appreciating his teaching practice. Attendees will be prompted to consider a personal CI and what they can learn about their practice through reflecting on a variety of dimensions of the CI. Attendees will consider a variety of strategies to analyse personal CI(s). If attendees embrace Dewey’s core predispositions, they may leave this session with a richer awareness of their strengths and weaknesses as educators as well as strategies to augment or ameliorate them.
Speaker:
Christopher Miller has been involved with Korea TESOL since 2011. He has been enthusiastic about reflective practice for nearly the same amount of time. Christopher currently serves as the Seoul KOTESOL chapter president. He is the recipient of the 2025 Korea TESOL and Dr. Thomas Farrell Reflective Language Teacher Award. You may contact the presenter at: chriskotesol@gmail.com.
ZOOM LINK
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87387208410?pwd=bhGAbagLIDpZsdhOFNWamDQYhtJabD.1
Meeting ID: 873 8720 8410
Passcode: 661087
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