Ji Young Ko holds an MA in TESOL from New York University and an MBA from the University of Geneva. With experience in ESL teaching and curriculum development in NYC, she now serves as the senior global marketing manager, teacher trainer, and academic consultant at Build and Grow.
Ponencia: Nice Encounter with Social Emotional Learning and English Education
During this pandemic, teachers and students, we are all exhausted with on and off the classroom and ever-changing learning environment on top of the fear of this virus affecting all of our lives. Motivation has a great effect on young adult students' learning process but often it is hard for us to boost students’ motivation without linking their own lives to their learning. Social emotional learning approaches lead students to find the way to cope with this unstable reality by assuring how they can handle their own feelings. This workshop will walk you through with social emotional learning activities that teachers could link to their English Classroom. Therefore, teachers could taste how to combine social emotional learning and English education to cultivate students’ positive learning experience.