For almost 30 years, Randall has spoken to teachers around the world on a broad landscape of topics including educational technology, language assessment, various instructional methodologies, human connection and authenticity, and the grief experienced with loss and death. Contact Randall if you are interested in having him speaking at your institution or event in 2021-2022.
Here are some of his presentations:
Title: How Online Learning Can Retool Minds and Reshape Hearts
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Title: Gamifying the Classroom for Language Assessment Needs The presenters demonstrate three engaging games and simulation activities that teachers can use to maximize language learning or cross-cultural understanding in their face-to-face or online classrooms. This is supported with a basic model on how to integrate them into the content of any classroom.
Presenters: Randall Davis, Rus Wilson, and Riadh Koubaa
Title: The Nuts and Bolts of Teaching Effective Listening Strategies
How do students become better active listeners? This session reviews factors
that make listening difficult for language learners and demonstrates interactive
and realistic activities for both high- and low-resource environments that teach,
not just test, effective listening skills. Ideas for both face-to-face and online
classes are addressed.
Presenters: Randall Davis (United States), Mouna Bouhlel (Tunisia), Pragya Adhikari (Nepal), and Keilor Vargas (Costa Rica)
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Plenary Title: Reimagining the Traditional Paradigm of Professional Development
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Summary:
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many teachers around the world have felt disconnected, unprepared, and upended in their work because this global situation has fractured many of the traditional ways of teaching and learning. As a result, teachers have struggled to find a future place for themselves in a profession with limited opportunities to engage in meaningful professional development in a remote environment. That said, great creativity and innovation can blossom amid disruption and chaos. In response to this great educational upheaval, Randall explains how old ways of doing professional development must give way to new paradigms of support for our profession to not only survive, but thrive in today’s world. To this end, Randall proposes three fundamental changes to his work that reflect this new vision for the future.
Best Practices Session: New Twists, Tricks, and Tools to Enhance Your Online Lessons
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Summary:
With online learning becoming the backbone of instruction around the world, teachers are trying to come up with new ways of enhancing their teaching and the learning experience. Unfortunately, teachers often have very little training on how to maximize the potential of online instruction and feel lost on how to navigate these uncharted waters. In response to this, Randall introduces a potpourri of tools, tips, and secrets on (1) running an engaging online class through popular Web-conferencing platforms, (2) choosing microphones, green screens, and Webcams to create quality classroom content, and (3) creating meaningful language assessment strategies to access students’ skills.
Title: Building Human Connection and Collaboration Through Online Communities
Broadcast Video (My part starts at around 2:06): View Video
Title: Flipgrid.com + Smart Phones = Effective Speaking Assessment
Web Site: https://www.tesol.org/conventiononline2020/schedule-at-a-glance/prerecorded-sessions
Title: Embracing and Celebrating Imperfection on the Road to Better Teaching
Title: Maximizing technology in high- and low-resource environments
Title: Finding New Pathways in a Dynamically-Changing Profession
He has given such lectures and workshops in the US, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia, and you are welcome to e-mail Randall if you are interested in such a presentation.
Here are more titles of presentations that he has given as an invited or plenary speaker:
Here are some of the other themes of his teacher training:
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