clwoelk

Cheryl Woelk is coordinator of Language for Peace and specializes in language and peace education in multicultural contexts. She holds an MA in Education and a graduate certificate in Peacebuilding from Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, USA. Cheryl currently lives in Saskatchewan, Canada with her spouse and son.
clwoelk has written 140 posts for Language for Peace Forum

Teaching Positions in South Korea

English Teachers as Gatekeepers

In this TED talk, Patricia Ryan shares her observations from more than 30 years of teaching English. Continue reading

Stats on Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is becoming a common term in peace education in schools, particularly in the United States. Continue reading

Teaching empathy to reduce aggression

Intentional training in emotional intelligence for adolescents may lead to reduced violent behaviour, according to this research in Spanish secondary schools. Continue reading

Teaching for Peace, Renewing the Spirit – TESOL 2014

The following is the abstract of a presentation by Cheryl Woelk at TESOL 2014 in Portland, Oregon, USA as a part of the Christian English Language Educators Association panel session. Continue reading

Commitment to students amazes and inspires

What does commitment to students look like? In a recent article from CBC News, a high school teacher follows up on a promise made 20 years in the past, to the inspiration of his former students. Continue reading

New release of International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching

Christian English Language Educators Association (CELEA) in cooperation with the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Biola University, has just released the first volume of the International Journal of Christianity and English Language Teaching Continue reading

Learning tours to build understanding

Mennonite Weekly Review’s article MCC visitors, Iranian partners build understanding highlights a recent learning tour between North America and Iran at a critical time for building cross-cultural understanding and relationships. In the language classroom, this type of learning and relationship-building goes even further as learners interact and work together over a longer period of time and share … Continue reading

Peace, Peacebuilding and Peacelearning online resources

Peace, Peacebuilding and Peacelearning is an online resource developed by the National Peace Academy as an introduction to peace education for children, youth, and adults…. Continue reading

Online course on “Shaping a Community of Learners”

Mennonite Education Agency’s Anabaptist Learning Institute is offering an online course entitled “Shaping a Community of Learners”… Continue reading

Contributing Author

Cheryl Woelk is coordinator of Language for Peace and specializes in language and peace education in multicultural contexts. She holds an MA in Education and a graduate certificate in Peacebuilding from Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia, USA. Cheryl currently lives in Saskatchewan, Canada with her spouse and son.

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