BC TEAL is proud to present our 2025 Annual Conference: Disruptive Educational Practices: Strategies for Transformation.
Please note that the Friday evening event, the TEAL Charitable Foundation Awards & Fundraiser, requires an additional ticket purchase. Please register here to secure your spot and join us in celebrating the awardees while fundraising for a better cause in TEAL.
Educators shine in times of change to face unexpected challenges. This is when creativity flourishes by combining proven practices with fresh and innovative ideas. These times call for transformation which can be rooted in tradition or experience, or it can arise through unexplored approaches. The synthesis of old and new ideas drives meaningful progress. Join other insightful and creative educators as we flourish within the power of our community.
ELT teachers often feel overwhelmed as they plan their lessons in a rapidly changing digital world. This presentation will offer teachers a concrete reflective exercise, combining transformational journaling with the 333 Anti-Anxiety Rule, to combat the psychological symptoms that cultivate feelings of nervousness, tension, and worry in the classroom or at a faculty meeting. Attendees will learn how to draft short teacher journal responses (on an app or in a journal) using the “ Rule of Three”: identify 3 things individuals can see, hear, and touch in moments of personal crisis. In addition to alleviating anxiety, this grounding technique as a written exercise helps strengthen the brain’s neuroplasticity by bolstering optimal brain processing, relaxing one’s physiological state, and calming the nervous system; therefore, it is a powerful addition to any teacher toolkit.
Lecturer (Writing Center and English/ESL Instruction), Coast Community College District
Tremonisha Putros, Ph.D. candidate (Curriculum and Instruction), is an ESL and English faculty member and a Writing Center consultant for the Coast College District.
