Dr. Sterling Plata
Philippine Association for Language Teaching (PALT), Inc and DLSU
Dr. Sterling Plata is a an advocate of the Education for Sustainable Development and service learning. She is an associate professor at De La Salle University. She is a PALT Board Member.
Sessions
Communication with a Mission: Re-envisioning College English for Sustainability
This workshop addresses three problems that teachers face in online teaching: lack of authentic communication opportunities, boring topics for essays, and difficulty embedding a service-learning component. The first part of the workshop describes the syllabus of the course Purposive Communication: Communication with a Mission. The second part is hands-on practice with embedding SDGs, service learning, and an interdisciplinary approach in syllabus design. The last part summarizes lessons learned from re-envisioning college English.