Interviewing the plenary speakers: Gustavo González
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T. Veigga interviewed Gustavo González, plenary speaker at the Southern Cone TESOL 2019.
📕THE POWER OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
What does a Broadway musical and an English class have in common? One of my answers is: collaboration in order to get an enjoyable quality product.
In this session we will discuss reasons why collaborative work is so important in our classes today and share ideas to use in class to foster collaboration among students, contributing to building an inclusive learning community, where everybody has a role to play, as in a musical production.
🎤Gustavo González graduated as a teacher of English at I.S.F.D. N° 5 in Pergamino (Argentina) and holds a postgraduate degree from UBA, the National University of Buenos Aires. He also holds a postgraduate diploma on Education and New Technologies from Flacso (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) and has completed a course on Neurosciences for Educators at Asociación Educar. He has been in the ELT field since 1993, working as a teacher, school coordinator, teacher trainer and presenter. He has been delivering seminars and workshops all over Argentina, South, Central and North America, China and South East Asia. He is one of the contributors to the book “Imagination, Cognition & Language Acquisition: A Unified Approach to Theory and Practice”, published by the New Jersey City University and has also written some articles for OUP (Oxford University Press), IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) and other institutions. He is a teacher trainer for the Oxford Teachers’ Academy (OTA), freelance PD trainer for Oxford University Press and Trinity College London. He is a former vice president of APIBA, the Buenos Aires English Teachers’ Association and former vice president of FAAPI, the Argentine Federation of English Teachers’ Associations.