Past Speaker
Dr Scott. J. Threlfall
University of Bolton, UK
Teacher Noticing and Professional Vision: Leveraging Video Observation Technology to Advance the Reflective Skills and Pedagogical Practices of Pre-service Trainee Teachers
Presentation Topic
Assistant Professor and currently the Programme Leader for a suite of Masters in Education programmes. A vastly experienced educational leader with a background in sport, teaching and learning, initial teacher education, and the continued professional development of colleagues. Leads on national and international academic networks for supporting teaching, learning and scholarly activity, and currently acts as a peer reviewer for three international journals. Always positive, energetic, and passionate about the privilege that is education. Research interests include reflective practice and teacher noticing.
Prof. DrSc. Svitlana Shekhavtsova
Prof. DrSc. Svitlana Shekhavtsova is a lecturer at the Slavic Languages Department in Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica in Slovakia from 2023. Before she worked in Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University in Ukraine for about 25 years. Her scientific interests include such Pedagogical aspects, as developing students` critical thinking, self-education and cross-cultural competence as a life-long global skill. In 2023, Prof. Shekhavtsova received a grant from the European Union "Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V01-00148." for conducting scientific research and presenting its results. Published more than 150 scientific publications including 2 monographs.
Prof. Dr. Luis Jorge Benitez Barajas
Luis J. BenÃtez Barajas is a PhD and professor at the National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico. Specialized in written language and cultural heritage. His research lines move between epistemology, architecture, engineering and educational Physics. Member of the American Association of Physics Teachers AAPT-Mx.
Mr. Yasser J. Alaisawi
Yasser J. Alaisawi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Teaching Science and serves as the International Teachers Association (ITA) Ambassador for Saudi Arabia. He is a dedicated Science Teacher with a passion for fostering critical thinking and inquiry-based learning among his students. Yasser has been recognized for his exceptional contributions to education, having been nominated for the Madinah People's Award for Distinguished Teacher and the Khalifa Award for Education in the Creative Teacher Category.
Dr Titus Williams
Dr Titus Williams a Faculty Administrator at Central University of Technology Free State in South Africa. He accumulated more than 15 years’ experience in higher education working closely with a diverse student community. His experience includes working at different universities in South Africa in the field of student administration and student success initiatives. A blissful passion to do research around social justice and student administration and student success. He presented several papers at local and international conference and is a renowned speaker for various student related events. He regards the opportunity to present his paper at this conference is an immense honour and is looking forward to sharing his expertise with the global research community and learn equally from the global scholars community.
PhD. Can. Ass. Genta Jahiu
Genta Jahiu is a Teaching Assistant of Psychology courses at the Faculty of Education, University of Pristina "Hasan Prishtina" in Kosovo. She is a Ph.D. candidate for Teacher Education and Educational Sciences, at the Faculty of Education, at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Her research interests focus on improving preschool and primary education through increased inclusion, as well as teacher motivation, job satisfaction and professional development. She is also a licensed Clinical Psychologist currently pursuing specialization in this field.
Janine Bittner
Janine Bittner graduated in Geography, Biology (Major) and in Pedagogy (Minor) for Teacher Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She has worked as research associate and senior lecturer at several universities in Germany for many years. Janine received intensive postgraduate training in research methodology, statistics, higher education teaching, science management. Since 2022 Janine has been working full-time on her PhD thesis in geography.
Luo Qian
Luo Qian is a Postgraduate student from China West Normal University. She is interested in: vocabulary teaching; foreign languages and literature and won the Third prize for academic scholarship and individual scholarship.