Minimizing the Chaos through Cooperative Classroom Management

Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Time: 15:00 – 17:00

Speaker: Dr. Gena Rhoades

Venue: Rm. 100, 2nd Social Sciences Building, Jinan University（暨南大学第二文科楼100室）

Introduction: This teacher training program offers teachers a chance to learn techniques that assist in creating effective cooperative and communicative classrooms, especially in classes of 20 students or more.

Speaker’s bio: Dr. Gena Rhoades is currently the Senior English Language Fellow in Guangzhou, China. She has several years of experience as a trainer of trainers (TOT), teacher-trainer, teacher and administrator. She was most recently Associate Professor for the online Master of Arts in Teaching with the University of Southern California (MAT@USC). Prior to teaching online, she worked with the Laos Ministry of Education through an Asia Development Bank funded project where she led a team of TOT consultants who wrote a competency-based training manual and trained the Laos faculty who are now training new professors at all three of the public universities in Laos. Before becoming a consultant in Laos, she was an EL Fellow in Morocco for two years where her main role was one of the teacher-trainers at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Rabat. In addition, she worked with the Ministry of National Education on a project to promote English Clubs in high schools throughout Morocco. She gave several presentations and workshops throughout Morocco and at NileTESOL in Egypt. Before deciding to teach abroad again, Dr. Rhoades was a faculty member at the University of Southern California where she taught in the Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language Program and was the International Teaching Assistant Program Coordinator.