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Grab your favorite beverage and join fellow English language teachers. We will spend this hour conversing about our lives, sharing classroom practices, learning, and making new friends. Let’s value virtual connections - join us to network, share, and learn! TESOL Live! is offered at no cost to TESOL members and nonmembers. Advance registration is required.
TESOL Live! is hosted by the TESOL Membership Professional Council (MPC) on the third Saturday of every month at 8am Eastern time.
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May's TESOL Live
Join us 17 May 2025
Chat with your global colleagues, share classroom practices, and build your network at this month's TESOL Live!
We will be joined by our featured guest, Curtis Kelly and Stephen Ryan, producers of the MindBrainEd Think Tanks, who will be discussing:
Brain Science and Language Learning
This session outlines the fascinating things in the brain sciences, and how they intersect language teaching. We will discuss why recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience are important and will dive into some favorites. We will also relate the story of how we went from being typical classroom teachers to brain science evangelists.
About our Featured Guests
Stephen M. Ryan teaches English and takes care of Study Abroad programmes at Sanyo Gakuen University in Okayama, Japan, and has worked with Curtis on the MindBrainEducation Think Tanks for the last six years. Still learning, still enjoying.
Curtis Kelly (EdD.), living in Portland, Oregon is a professor emeritus of Kansai University in Japan, founder of the JALT Mind, Brain, and Education BRAIN SIG and producer of the MindBrainEd Think Tanks. He loves working with Stephen, but being retired, has a hard time fulfilling his life mission: “to relieve the suffering of the classroom.”