In this fifth webinar in our series, Better Together, Kim Jackson will share how she combines theory and best practices to create and maintain a truly communicative classroom. Her experiences will serve as guideposts for all of us who strive to build proficiency through authentic communication.
Kim Jackson has been teaching Spanish at Chatham Hall, a boarding school for girls in southern Virginia for 20 years. She has also served as the Chair of World Languages for six years. Before Chatham Hall, Kim was a full-time Assistant Professor of Spanish for nine years at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, where she also taught a summer school Spanish course in the Nashville public schools. Kim began her pedagogy training as a teaching assistant at the University of Kentucky where she was trained in the Communicative Approach and the Natural Approach. For two years Kim served as the Coordinator of the Elementary Spanish Language Program at the University of Kentucky where she helped train other teaching assistants in those methods. Since 1994, Kim has conducted students to language schools for summer study abroad programs in Seville, Spain. During those programs, Kim attended language classes at the C1 and C2 levels, which continued to influence her teaching philosophy which is based on using authentic input to encourage students to communicate in the target language.
7:00 pm (Hora del este de EE. UU. y Canadá)
Todos los participantes recibirán Certificado de asistencia.
Siempre del lado del profesorado de ELE
