Fostering an empathetic atmosphere in the classroom, by Valéria França

BRAZ-TESOL is organizing a serie of free webinars to allow BRAZ-TESOLers from all over the country to participate.

What is a webinar?
A webinar is an online event that is broadcasted to a group of individuals through their computers via the Internet.
A webinar allows a speaker to share multimedia content with audiences that can be spread out over a large geographical area. You can log located anywhere. A webinar also allows the speaker to interact with an audience. The audience can ask the speaker or moderator (who is leading the webinar) questions in real-time through an instant messaging tool.

Valéria França graduated as a primary school teacher in the UK and following initial ELT training at International House London, she moved to Brazil in the early '90s. She has worked in ELT for over 25 years and is the Head of Teacher Development at Cultura Inglesa. Her PhD research was in SLA, Social Cultural Theory and the language classroom. She is a workshop and plenary presenter at many ELT conferences. Her current research interest lies in teachers' personal relationships with their teaching persona and space. She is a member of the Visual Arts Circle (https://visualartscircle.com/), a BRAZ-TESOL Past President (2015-2016 term) and a BRAZ-TESOL Advisory Council life-time member. She blogs at: http://valeriabfranca.com/