Curtis Kelly
Personal Interests: Curtis enjoys traveling, reading and Marc’s barbecues. He is still wondering why his new-born daughter looks so much like Robert.
CURTIS
Popular speaker and writer Curtis Kelly (EDD) is a professor at Kansai University in Japan. He has made over 300 presentations and written 33 books, including Active Skills for Communication (Cengage), Writing from Within (Cambridge), and Significant Scribbles (Longman). His passion for brain science comes from his life mission to relieve suffering in the classroom. He is still looking for ways to pull learners into English study rather than pushing them.
Presentation is a big part of my life and this is a moment in one on brain studies when I was explaining an oxytocin moment I had as a result of my daughter.
An enlightening experience was setting up an English camp for kids that aren't all that interested in English. Instead, we made them into American Indian tribes and gave each one a role in the tribe. We made moccasins, did arrowhead hunts, and did other crafts, but all in English.
A T-shirt my students from the Psychology of Love class made for us. It was the best class I ever taught and fit my educational philosophy perfectly: teach something that pulls students in rather than pushes.
Marc Helgesen
Personal Interests: Marc enjoys traveling, reading and cooking, especially barbecue. He is one of the founders of Japan Association for Language Teaching’s first parody Special Interest Group, the JALT BBQ SIG (http://tinyurl.com/jaltBBQsig)
MARC
Marc Helgesen is author of more than 150 professional articles, books and textbooks including the English Firsthand series (Pearson Education/Longman Asia) and has led teacher development workshop on five continents. He is professor at Miyagi Gakuin Women's University, Sendai and adjunct at Teachers College Columbia University, MA TESOL Program, Tokyo. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Extensive Reading Foundation (erfoundation.org).
| Marc's website with lots of English Language Teaching/ Positive Psychology downloads! |
Me with a tiger. ("Do one thing every day that scares you." -- Eleanor Roosevelt) (actually, not scary. There were trainers just out of camera range).
Guess my three favorite letters are
B, B & Q.
B, B & Q.
To learn more about meditation and things related to positive psychology, I became a novice month for a short time last year. This was in Thailand where nearly all males become short-term monks.
Tim Murphey
Personal interests: For 8 years, ski-juggling in Switzerland, Tim did his PhD on the use of music and song in foreign language learning. An addicted playaholic he teaches CBI courses on play and song and "Changing the world: One smile at a time." He loves jokes, but has a whole lot of trouble telling them because he usually experiences premature ecstatic understanding.
TIM
Tim Murphey (PhD Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) TESOL’s Professional Development in Language Education series editor, co-author with Zoltan Dörnyei of Group Dynamics in the Language Classroom (CUP, 2003), researches Vygotskian socio cultural theory (SCT) with a transdisciplinary emphasis on community, play, and music at Kanda University of International Studies. Several of his books, Teaching One to One (Longman, 1991, out of print), Music and Song (OUP 1992), and Language Hungry! (Helbling Languages 2006) have been widely cited and used, as have many of his book chapters and articles. You can access some of his articles at http://web.me.com/murpheytim
Tim is interested in making work playful: he has about 50 short video clips at the National Foreign Language Resources Center University of Hawaii Tim Murphey Teaching YouTube Tips playlist and 10 freely downloadable presentations. See his students presentation about JHS/HS English education on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwsZ0KiHhRg and about Study Abroad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9CYaUhqEdw
Tim is interested in making work playful: he has about 50 short video clips at the National Foreign Language Resources Center University of Hawaii Tim Murphey Teaching YouTube Tips playlist and 10 freely downloadable presentations. See his students presentation about JHS/HS English education on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwsZ0KiHhRg and about Study Abroad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9CYaUhqEdw
For his new novel about the entrance exams in Japan google "The Tale that Wags englishbooks” or in Japanese google to “ゆれ動くしっぽ englishbooks”
An amazing little boy on the Taipei subway in November 2011 protecting his mother from the juggling balls by blowing them on top of my head! Cool kid! Looks a bit like Robert, too.
It takes three juggling balls and two runaway skis to calm this person down enough to meditate on epistemological diversity peering, identificatory moments of possibility, and Bakhtinian dialogism.
An incredible Saudi Arabian social psychologist bird teaching two men how to hold out their arms so she can rest on them while her husband-bird takes a photo (actually an experiment in getting different human ethnic groups to share the same space in peace).
Robert S. Murphy
Personal interests: Robert loves to travel the world but often finds solace in his hometown of NYC. He is passionate about jazz music, movies, and restaurant hopping. Other hobbies include martial arts, computing, artistic design and of course reading up on neuroscience!
ROBERT
Robert S. Murphy is a doctoral student in Psycholinguistics with over 19 years of teaching experience in Japan. Author of Optimal Levels series (13 textbooks). He researches Cognitive Development, Motivation, and Pedagogy at the University of Nottingham under the supervision of Dr. Zoltan Dornyei. Robert has also been working closely with professors, staff, and graduates of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and their online WIDE World program, with the goal of connecting Harvard's research in Mind, Brain, and Education to TEFL in Japan. He is an avid member of IMBES (International Mind Brain and Education Society) and recommends everyone to join, too.
Robert is a full-time Lecturer at the University of Kitakyushu, a tutor for the University of Birmingham, and the Editor of ETJ Journal.
He can be reached at: m@murphyschool.com.
He can be reached at: m@murphyschool.com.
I used to run a jazz/rock club along with my language school. Those lights went out permanently when I returned to academic research. It was fun while the show was on though!
Photo with David Sanborn.
Photo with David Sanborn.
Been doing martial arts since I was six. Judo, karate, aikido, shorinji kempo, boxing… you name it.
Had a lot of fun doing live radio and TV for around ten years, too!