Dr. Sean Conley
Selected Workshops & Presentations
Attention, intention and tensions: paths to effective feedback
Invited Keynote, Bridges Conference, Marlboro, VT, USA, August 2019
Accompanying teacher learning
Three-day workshop on providing teachers with performance feedback provided for regional supervisors of the Costa Rican Ministry of Public Education, San Jose, Costa Rica, April 2019
Psycho-social skills for language teachers
Two-day workshop for university instructors. Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 2018
Developing teacher leadership
One week workshop for teacher leaders in public schools. Costa Rican Ministry of Public Education, San Isidro de Peñas Blancas, Costa Rica, October 2018
Introduction to thinking preference diversity
Workshop for faculty of Al Yamamah University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2017
Teachership: what teachers can learn from research on leadership
Invited opening plenary speaker to the Bridges Language Teaching Conference, Brattleboro VT, August 2013
Contemplative pedagogy in online education
Invited panel member at the fourth annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference. Amherst College, Amherst MA. September 2012
TESOL, technology & social justice
Invited keynote speaker Russian National Association of Teachers of English. Yaroslavl, The Russian Federation. May 2012
Collaborative learning tools
Four two-hour workshops funded by the Department of State as a part of a project for visiting teachers of English from Turkey. University of Massachusetts. July 2011
Integrating the web into language teaching.
Two-day workshop for University level English language teachers funded by the USAID and presented at the University of Constantine, ENS-Bouzareah, and the Ministry of Education in Algeria, Sept. 2010
Teaching with technology
One-week workshop funded by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine to work with teachers of English in Ukraine. July 2010
Reflective practice online: student voices from a teacher education program. (with Scott Thornbury)
44th International TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference. Boston, MA. March 2010
Rethinking our approach to creating, collaborating, organizing & presenting using free web-based resources
New York State TESOL. White Plains, NY. Sept. 2009
Developing reflective practitioners through online teacher education. (with Scott Thornbury)
43rd International TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference. Denver, Colorado. March 2009
Tapping the power of the web for English language teaching
Invited keynote speaker 5th Annual South Caucasus TESOL Conference (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. May 2009
What teaching teaches us about management
Invited speaker, 42nd International TESOL Arabia Conference. Dubai, United Arab Emirates. March 2009
Teaching language, exploring peace: practical applications for peace-education in a variety of English language learning contexts. (with Radmila Popovic from the University of Belgrade)
42nd International TESOL Conference. New York, New York. March 2008
Teaching language, learning peace: an exploration of the potential overlap between language instruction and peace education. (with Radmila Popovic from the University of Belgrade)
41st International IATEFL (International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language) Conference. Aberdeen, Scotland. April 2007
Cross-cultural conflict transformation: the role of language teaching
40th International TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Conference.Tampa, Florida. March 2006
Preparing students for English as an international language
Invited speaker, Sookmyung University Annual Speakers Series. Seoul, Korea. October 2006
Mapping an approach to English as an international language
Invited speaker, HanYang University TESOL Certificate Speakers. Seoul, Korea. October 2006
Exploring the circles of peace: peace education in language teaching (with Elizabeth Tannenbaum)
Northern New England TESOL Conference. Brattleboro, Vermont. November 2005
Learning learning: principles of experiential education in graduate and certificate education
Invited Plenary, The Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute English Language Program Conference. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. February 2004
Beyond tests: alternative assessment in language programs
Invited Plenary, International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language–Hungary. Budapest, Hungary. November 2002
Language teachers as applied linguists
Invited Keynote, 5th Regional GEOS Language Teachers Conference. Sendai, Japan. April 2001
SPECIFY: goals and objectives for learning and teaching
Invited speaker, Asia University Visiting Speakers Series. Tokyo, Japan. January 2001
Real world uses for computers in language teaching
Invited speaker, Asia University Visiting Speakers Series. Tokyo, Japan. January 2001
Poetry in the language classroom
26th International Japan Association of Language Teachers Conference. Shizuoka, Japan. October 2000
Reculturing institutions and educational change (with Donald Freeman, et. al.)
Presentation, 34th TESOL Annual Convention. Vancouver, Canada. March, 2000
From many, one: exploring approaches to teaching
In proceedings of the 1997 Hokkaido JALT Conference. Hokkaido JALT: Sapporo, Japan. October 1997
Cooperative development in teacher education
Presentation, 23rd International JALT Conference. Nagoya, Japan. October 1997
Mosaics of teacher development & socialization (with Barfield, Beaufait, Murphey & Katsura)
In The Proceedings of the 23rd International JALT Conference. JALT: Tokyo 1997
Meeting trainee needs through shared pre-training journals
Article in The Language Teacher, Vol. 20, No. 10. JALT: Tokyo. October 1996
Shared journals in teacher education
Presentation, 22nd International JALT Conference. Hiroshima, Japan. November 1996
Bringing participant initiative to in-service training
Article in the Newsletter of the Teacher Education SIG (JALT). Vol. 4 No. 2. March 1996
Learning styles and David Kolb’s experiential cycle
25th Annual Sandanona TESOL Conference. Brattleboro, Vermont. June 1994
Experiential learning & student motivation
Invited presentation: Teacher Training Series at Centro Cultural Salvadoreño. San Salvador, El Salvador. February 1994
Activating schema: starting where students are
Invited presentation: Teacher Training Series at Centro Cultural Salvadoreño. San Salvador, El Salvador. February 1994