{"id":37702,"date":"2026-06-29T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/enrol-course\/summer-neuroscience-workshops\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T11:34:26","slug":"summer-neuroscience-workshops","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/community\/enrol-course\/summer-neuroscience-workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Neuroscience Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free Neuroscience of Language Learning Workshop Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>iTDi and the JALT BRAIN SIG brings you two free workshops this summer, looking at how brain studies should be shaping our language teaching. Join us!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Facilitators:\u00a0Curtis Kelly, Heather Kretschmer, Stephen M. Ryan<\/p>\n<p>July 12: <strong>Changing Language Assessment to Fit Discoveries about Social Brain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>August 30: <strong>Examining your Well-Being as a Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Time: 06:00 UTC. One hour, but optional continued discussion in a private forum afterward.<\/p>\n<p>What time is this for you?<\/p>\n<p>Price: Free<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Zoom (Recordings will be available for registered participants.)<\/p>\n<p>Once you register, you will have access to the Zoom link. You will also receive reminders before the event and recordings afterward, at the email address you used to register.<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 12: Changing Language Assessment to Fit Discoveries about Social Brain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Neuroscientist Matt Leiberman insists it is our highly evolved social brain, emerging from the mentalizing network, is what makes us truly superior to other primates. Not tool-making, not culture, not even language; the social brain is our superpower. It is at work almost all the time and we are barely even aware of it. Once you understand its power, and that language itself is one of its tools, then we think you will agree that how we teach and assess language, which has been shaped more by linguistics than by how the brain works, needs reform.<\/p>\n<p>First, we will explain Lieberman\u2019s social brain (one of our fall online course topics) and how language is a product of it. After looking at the neuroscience of cognitive control, a critical part of language learning, we will go to breakout rooms to discuss aspects of language performance, other than just grammar and vocabulary, that we should also be assessing. After all, if language is a social activity, then maybe we need to include other competences, like turn-taking, clarity of expression, negotiation of meaning, gestures and creativity to get ideas across, empathy, synchrony, and who knows what else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>August 30: Examining your Well-Being as a Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Few jobs have as much all-day, on-stage stress as ours does, often compounded by other factors: low pay, demanding administration, family obligations, and difficult students.\u00a0 And yet, you have survived as a teacher and hopefully, prospered. We\u2019d like you to share one of your toughest times as a teacher and how you got through it.<\/p>\n<p>First, we will look at some psychological research on teacher well-being (one of our spring online course topics) and then go to breakout rooms where we can discuss our own tough times. We guarantee surprises, for example, we will inform you about a particular factor of longevity that is more robust than diet, exercise, weight, and even close relationships!<\/p>\n<p>Meet your workshop facilitators:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Curtis Kelly<\/strong> \u2013 Writer, Speaker, and Professor Emeritus of Kansai University in Japan; new to making videos<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen M. Ryan<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Language teacher, Study Abroad experience creator, currently based in Okayama, Japan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heather Kretschmer<\/strong> \u2013 Experienced teacher, writer, and Coordinator of Business English at the Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen in Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free Neuroscience of Language Learning Workshop Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>iTDi and the BRAIN SIG brings you (can we?) two free workshops looking at how brain studies should be shaping our language teaching. 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