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 2nd 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.
