HỘI THẢO GĐPT - The 2nd Conference On Pedagogy, Vietnamese and Retreat for Educators and GĐPT Leaders in NorCal

HỘI THẢO LẦN THỨ 2 VỀ PHƯƠNG PHÁP SƯ PHẠM, TIẾNG VIỆT VÀ BỒI DƯỠNG CHO NGƯỜI GIÁO DỤC VÀ HUYNH TRƯỞNG GĐPT TẠI MIỀN BẮC CALIFORNIA

The 2^nd CONFERENCE ON PEDAGOGY, VIETNAMESE AND RETREAT FOR EDUCATORS AND GĐPT LEADERS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

THỜI GIAN / Time: Từ 8:30AM đến 4:30PM thứ Bảy ngày 7 tháng 11 năm 2015
ĐỊA ĐIỂM / Location: Chùa Phổ Từ, 17327 Meekland Ave. Hayward, CA 94531

CHƯƠNG TRÌNH / Program

1. 8:30AM: Tập hợp - Vui mừng bên nhau - Check-in/Gathering
2. 8:45AM-9:25AM: Khai mạc - Opening ceremony
Niêm hương bạch Phật - Incense offering to the Buddha – 5 mins
Vài lời của Ban Tổ Chức - Words of the organizer – 5 mins

Huấn từ của Thầy - Words of wisdom (Venerable Thích Từ Lực) – 10 mins

Thực hành thiền hành - Walking meditation (HTr. Nguyên Cần) – 20 mins

3. 09:30AM- 11:00AM: Phương thức dạy Việt ngữ - Special Guest speakers: Professors Minh Hong Thi Do and Trang Dang Abeid of CRC, Sacramento, CA.

Active Reading to Develop Critical Thinking Skills, including Group Teaching Demonstration, General Goals and Strategies of Language Teaching, and

Fostering a stress-free environment to make the class interesting and enjoyable

4. 11:05AM – 12:20 PM: Special Guest speakers: Andrew Lam, author, editor with the Pacific News Service, and a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” Motivational talk: How remembering my Vietnamese Past also gave me a future, and How I became a writer.

5. 12:30PM-1:30PM: Ăn cơm trong chánh niệm/Mindfulness eating
6. 1:30PM-2:10PM: Sinh hoạt kết thân/Bonding activities at the Japanese Garden
7. 2:15PM-3:15PM: "Leadership Styles: What's your animal" – Fong Tran, Cultural Program Coordinator & Advisor, Cross-Cultural Center, UC Davis

8. 3:20PM – 4:15PM: Mindful Leadership – A blueprint to individual and societal happiness.  (I will conduct this session)

9. 4:15PM-4:30PM: Feedback và giây thân ái.

Speakers Biography:

1. Minh Hong Thi Do was born in Saigon and was one of the ‘Boat People’ in 1975.  She taught English in the refugee camp in Sattahip, Thailand before transiting to Camp Pendleton and finally resettled in Sacramento.  She has an MBA in Management and an MA in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages).  She has been teaching ESL and Vietnamese for over 20 years.  She was past Chair of the Foreign Languages department and is a member of the Curriculum Committee, the Health, Safety, and Facilities Committee, and the Budget Committee at CRC.  She is a member of the Vietnamese Scholarship Committee and regularly contributes to cultural events at CRC and in the Vietnamese community.  As the Co-Chair of the Asian Pacific Heritage Celebration at CRC, her goal is to cultivate and promote an interest in Vietnamese studies and Buddhism.  She likes to spend time with her family and tend to her vegetables.  Her passion is teaching, and one of her favorite time is the one hour she spends with her young students in the Vietnamese class at Chua Kim Quang every Saturday.  She hopes to instill in them the love of the Vietnamese language and the joy of discovering Viet Nam through culture and literature.

2. Trang Dang Abeid was born in the United States and speaks fluent Vietnamese and English.  She has an MA in English Rhetoric and Composition with certificates in ESL and Teaching Reading to Adults.  She has been teaching English Writing and Reading for the past 10 years.  She is currently co-teaching Vietnamese and working with Professor Minh Do on expanding the curriculum of the Vietnamese Program at Cosumnes River College.  

3. Andrew Lam. Andrew is a writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and, for 8 years, a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media organizations in America.   His essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country, including the New York Times, The LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal, and the Chicago Tribune. He has also written essays for magazines like Mother Jones, The Nation, San Francisco Focus, Proult Journal, In Context, Utne Magazine, California Magazine and many others.  Currently he blogs with Huffington Post and has a regular column with Shanghai Daily. 
         His short stories are also anthologized widely and taught in many Universities and colleges. His short stories appeared in many literary journals, including Manoa Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod International, Michigan Quarterly West, Zyzzyva, Transfer Magazine, Alsop Review, Terrain, and others.  Lam’s awards include the Society of Professional Journalist “Outstanding Young Journalist Award” (1993) and “Best Commentator” in 2004, The Media Alliance Meritorious awards (1994), The World Affairs Council's Excellence in International Journalism Award (1992), the Rockefeller Fellowship in UCLA (1992), and the Asian American Journalist Association National Award (1993; 1995). He was honored and profiled on KQED television in May 1996 during Asian American heritage month.
       Lam was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University during the academic year 2001-02, studying journalism. He lectured widely at many universities and institutions, including Harvard, Yale, Brown, UCLA, USF, UC Berkeley, University of Hawaii, William and Mary, Hong Kong, and Loyola university, and so on. Lam, who was born in Vietnam and came to the US in 1975 when he was 11 years old, has a Master in Fine Arts from San Francisco State University in creative writing, and a BA degree in biochemistry from UC Berkeley.
        A member of Academy of Arts and Science, Lam was featured in the documentary “My Journey Home,” which aired on PBS nationwide on April 7, 2004, where a film crew followed him back to his homeland Vietnam.  His book, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora has recently won the Pen American “Beyond the Margins” Award in 2006, and short-listed for “Asian American Literature Award.”  His book of essays, "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres" was published in September 2010 and was listed as top 10 Indies of 2010 by Shelf Unbound Magazine.  
         Lam's first short story collection, “Birds of Paradise Lost” was published March 2013 and in June of 2013 received a Medal of Honor from UC Irvine for its Contributions to the Humanities; in September the book also won the Pen's Josephine Miles Literary Award. He’s working on another book of short stories and a novel.

4. Fong Tran. Phong is Cultural Program Coordinator & Advisor, Cross-Cultural Center, UC Davis. He is a poet and a performer. Fong is also an adjunct professor at Sacramento City College, CA. His complete biography is here (http://www.fongtran.com/#!bio/c161y)

5. Phe X. Bach. Phe is a husband and father of two sons. He is a Buddhist practitioner, a GĐPT Leader, and an educator in the greater Sacramento area.