Webinar: Improving Online Teaching Skills While Teaching by Emily Clark
Dear Colleagues,
IATEFL Poland
and Emily Clark, English Language Specialist with U.S. Department of State/Assistant Language Specialist at the University of Kansas
have the pleasure to invite you to a webinar which will take place
on Thursday, 22nd February 2021, from 8.30 to 9.30 CET.
Continued Professional Development:
Improving Online Teaching Skills While Teaching
Teachers often have limited time and resources for professional development.
Additionally, some professional development may not fit the needs of individual teacher’s contexts.
Finding and creating communities of practice is not always intuitive and with the many demands of online teaching, teacher development through communities may not be a priority.
In this webinar, participants will review areas for continued professional development in online teaching.
Participants will discuss prioritizing the focus of professional development, goal setting, finding opportunities, creating opportunities within teacher networks, and cultivating motivation for professional development.
Participants will leave renewed and goal-centered, with a new community of practice.
After the webinar all participants will receive a certificate of participation.
IATEFL Poland members have priority of registration for this webinar.
Do not delay. The number of participants is limited.
Emily Clark – English Language Specialist, Assistant Language Specialist, English Language Fellow, Instructor, Lecturer, Business English Tutor
Ms. Clark holds an MA in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and she is currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Kansas, USA.
Over the course of her career, Ms. Clark has worked in a variety of U.S. universities and community programs for over a decade, teaching varied proficiency and skill-based English as a Second or Foreign Language.
As a U.S. State Department English Language Specialist, she is working with organizations in Russia and Poland to discuss online language teaching. As a U.S. State Department English Language Fellow in Vientiane, Laos, she developed and taught language courses, served as an MA advisor, and worked with Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETAs). She has also served on the KU Fulbright Campus Committee and facilitated teacher-training workshops for new ETAs teaching in Laos and Eurasia.
Currently, she is a teacher trainer and curriculum developer, teacher, department liaison, and assessment rater for her department at the University of Kansas, focusing on both face to face and online modalities.
Ms. Clark is developing curriculum for online English language programming, serving as department liaisons with the Center for Online and Distance Learning, the Center for Teaching Excellence, and the university bookstore and varied publishers. She also serves on the department curriculum committee where she reviews online courses and provides ongoing training on online language teaching and technology. She is on the executive board of Midwestern TESOL (MIDTESOL) and is a member of TESOL and the English Language Programs community.
