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Synchronous (Onsite) Teacher Education / Professional Development Featured/Invited

Walking the Talk and Walking with Students Together: Teacher Authenticity

Invited Second Session (Synchronous ONLINE)

Sun, Apr 30, 13:00-13:50 Asia/Seoul

Location: P204 and Zoom

Students often have high expectations of their teachers. We talk a lot about what students should do, such as completing assignments on time or starting paragraphs with topic sentences, but are we authentic, do we practice what we preach? This presentation shares a three-part procedure – one of many ways that teachers can be authentic. First, based on our own beliefs and experiences, in Part 1, we Talk to explain to students something we feel is important, such as being willing to say, “I don’t know.” In Part 2, we Walk Our Talk, letting students see and hear us doing what we talked about (e.g., admitting our ignorance to students and others). The highlight of the process is Part 3, when we encourage students to Walk Together with us, by also saying, “I don’t know.” Examples of teacher authenticity are shared from many teachers. (George M. Jacobs & Chenghao Zhu, with Jasper Roe, Qingli Guo, and Meng Huat Chau)

  • George Jacobs

    George has lots of fun collaborating on projects on education and on sustainable diets.

  • Chenghao Zhu

    Chenghao Zhu is currently a doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Universiti Malaya. His research interests include the study of second language development, and corpus and computational linguistics.

  • Qingli Guo

    Qingli Guo is a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Education at Universiti Malaya. She earned her master’s degree in teaching Chinese as a Second Language at Beijing Language and Culture University. Her research interests include Chinese teaching and learning, and ecolinguistics.