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Jeju Chapter KOTESOL Presentation with Free Books

By saradavila  |  2013/04/02 06:56 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Planning on being on Jeju island this weekend? I am. Come and see me, I”ll be presenting on creative thinking techniques and giving away free books. You can listen in about it here:   For more information: Jeju “Creative Thinking Techniques for the English Language Classroom” Workshop By Webeditor Jeju on March 6, 2013 – [...]

KOTESOL International Conference

By saradavila  |  2012/10/20 04:50 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

I’ll be in Seoul for the next two days for the International Conference. I’ll be presenting today and tomorrow. On Saturday you can catch me at 2:30 in B161 for a presentation on Creative Thinking Techniques. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting with EnglishCentral and participating in a panel discussion on video in the classroom. I hope [...]

Daegu September 1st Chapter Meeting

By saradavila  |  2012/08/31 07:47 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

For this one day event I will be giving away 20 copies of the collected worksheets and lesson plans I’ve developed that utilize the creative thinking techniques. You can download them all here: http://saradavila.com/front/materials/creative-thinking-techniques-and-lesson-plans/   Daegu-Gyeongbuk KOTESOL E-Bulletin ~ Sept 2012 September Workshop Program Speaker: Sara Davila Topic: Using Creative Thinking Techniques to Improve Communication Date: [...]

In The Middle of a Book

By saradavila  |  2012/06/28 02:40 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

I try to put up at least two new activities a week, and I’m a bit behind. I’m in the middle of finishing up a five book series for teachers. It’s been a busy year. I’ll be making at least one worksheet for you this week, so look forward to it. I appreciate your patience [...]

Travel and Delay

By saradavila  |  2012/05/28 23:51 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

There has been a great deal of traveling going on between Chicago and Korea. This has put me a bit behind on my posting schedule. I shall resume no later than next week, and for your patience, expect on activity a day for six days so we are all caught up on activities. I’ve still [...]

International Reading Association Chicago

By saradavila  |  2012/04/30 11:10 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Good morning Chicago, It really is morning, like 6 in the morning. I’m getting ready to head out the door for the International Reading Association conference in Chicago. Looking forward to meeting some people, attending a few fantastic looking workshops, and hopefully, if all goes well, buying some educational books I don’t need! Life is [...]

New Year’s Resolved

By saradavila  |  2012/03/28 13:14 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Well there you have it. My New Year’s resolution was to post a new activity every week for the rest of the year. Sadly my brain got a little swallowed by writing books. The book writing is not going to stop, but with the bit of a breather I was afforded I was finally able [...]

Book Reviewers for Young Learner Series

By saradavila  |  2012/03/13 06:31 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

I’m working on a young learner reading series called Global Journeys. We currently have the first few books in each level of the series ready for review. This series is designed for primary years programs (PYP) and designed to support learner interest in science, art, history, math, music, and global culture. The series is also [...]

Advice on Classroom Management with Points System

By saradavila  |  2012/03/12 08:06 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Hello Teachers, I’ve been really busy. Since January 1st I’ve written two full books and to full teachers guides, trained new EPIK teachers for 8 days in two locations in Korea, presented at three different schools to introduce other reading series, and finalized 6 150 page Teacher Resource Books for a project started two years [...]

English Central Classroom Books Coming Soon

By saradavila  |  2012/02/29 04:07 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

I made a New Year’s resolution. My resolution was to post at least one new activity a week to my website. Sadly, I have not been able to do that just yet. The good news is, I am going to make it up to you next week by posting for 14 straight days to bring [...]

Acknolwedgement in Book Series and Possible Free Books

By saradavila  |  2011/08/11 23:30 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Calling Twelve Teachers: Would you like to have an opportunity to be thanked for your help in a book series that I am working on? This may include free books. I’m looking for twelve teachers interested in reading some graded readers that will be hitting the market very soon. Please comment or respond using the [...]

Corrects and Inconvenience

By saradavila  |  2011/07/13 03:02 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

In order to make it easier to download files on my site I’ve edited the code to place a download link under all the files. Unfortunately doing so has messed up the text on page, removing paragraph returns. So now you wills see all the introduction to lesson text as a block without spacing. It [...]

On the Road

By saradavila  |  2011/07/04 13:08 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Hello All, Sorry for the lack of updates. I’m getting ready to head back to Korea for a lot of teacher training, some workshops, and travel. The life of the road warrior. I’ll be posting some new materials and worksheets soon. In the meantime I’m taking requests for specific materials or topics that would be [...]

Daegu Compass June 2011 Article

By saradavila  |  2011/06/24 17:15 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

This month I was the guest expert for the Daegu Compass KOTESOL pages. Each month Daegu Compass will feature an question or questions from EFL/ESL/ELL teachers in Korea. These questions will be answered by members and volunteers from the Daegu KOTESOL Chapter. I’ve been a member of the Daegu chapter since 2004 and am delighted [...]

Still More to Come

By saradavila  |  2011/05/17 15:15 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

Greetings all, I’ve been updating for days and going through files that have not been posted. At this time there are over 300 activities and worksheets on the site for you to use your classroom. With each activity or worksheet I have tried to include a short blurb to give guidance on how to use [...]

Massive Updates

By saradavila  |  2011/05/09 23:21 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

As you may have noticed if you have my site feed listed somewhere, I am in the middle of massive updates. Mostly what I am doing is writing a short quick description of all the task based activities on my site and including some basic instructions. This will make it easier to search for activities [...]

Presentations Update

By saradavila  |  2011/02/21 03:57 Posted in Assessment, News  |  Comments (0)

I have managed to finally get a great deal of my papers uploaded for you to download and browse. These can all be found under presentations. Check out some of the new titles: Task Based Learning with Song and Chants Here teachers will find several song and chant activities to be used with small groups [...]

Jeonju EPIK Training Spring 2011

By saradavila  |  2011/02/21 03:55 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

It’s that time of year again. We have roughly 1200 teachers who have just landed. It’s hard work and a very intensive 8 day orientation, but so far everything is going very well. Once again thanks to the NIIED and the MEST for putting together this program to support the development and training of new [...]

Teaching with Song and Chants, October 2nd

By saradavila  |  2010/09/25 01:53 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

As some of you know, I am a music teacher in a past life. I really enjoy being able to include music into my classrooms whenever possible. I’ve been invited to speak in Suncheon on October 2nd to address ways to incorporate songs and chants into the classroom. I hope to see you all there. [...]

KOTESOL Workshop: Sept. 4 Teaching Writing

By saradavila  |  2010/08/09 02:04 Posted in News  |  Comments (0)

I’ll be presenting for the Daegu Chapter of KOTESOL on Sept. 4th on teaching using Writing Stations. Writing Stations for the EFL Classroom Teaching writing in the EFL environment presents a number of challenges. First regardless of how students are tested and leveled, teachers must always address gaps in levels of ability in class. Also, [...]