Friday, May 23, 2014
Week 14 -- Microteaching
Feel free to ask me if you have any questions/issues while preparing your lesson plans and microteaching.
Friday, May 16, 2014
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Week 12 -- Identity and Course Wrap-up
This will be our last content class for ICC. Next week there is no class and you will do your Microteaching in Week 14. Please refer to your Microteaching assignment and lesson plan template.
Because this is the last week of content, we are going to do something a little different. In an attempt to provide a closure-style class and to flip the classroom, you will play a major role in deciding our last class' content.
Please read Duff and Uchida's article about negotiating a teacher's identity in the EFL classroom. This ties in a lot of ICC ideas and focuses on what we are -- teachers.
As you read, I want you to create questions using this table. Questioning is a very important strategy for those of you wanting to move on to a graduate program, and being critical shows a very high-level of understanding.
Please create at least 5 questions following the Question Table guidelines. You are welcome to create more. Do not post anything. Bring them to class. We'll use them in a round table discussion. Each of you will have several turns to pose questions to me, and much more importantly, to each other.
Please come to class ready to talk (as if I even need to type this).
Because this is the last week of content, we are going to do something a little different. In an attempt to provide a closure-style class and to flip the classroom, you will play a major role in deciding our last class' content.
Please read Duff and Uchida's article about negotiating a teacher's identity in the EFL classroom. This ties in a lot of ICC ideas and focuses on what we are -- teachers.
As you read, I want you to create questions using this table. Questioning is a very important strategy for those of you wanting to move on to a graduate program, and being critical shows a very high-level of understanding.
Please create at least 5 questions following the Question Table guidelines. You are welcome to create more. Do not post anything. Bring them to class. We'll use them in a round table discussion. Each of you will have several turns to pose questions to me, and much more importantly, to each other.
Please come to class ready to talk (as if I even need to type this).
Friday, May 2, 2014
Week 11 -- Teaching English as an EIL
Continuing ideas from last week, this week we'll look more closely at what it means to consider English as an EIL. Also, we'll look at a very practical, easy, and kid-friendly approach to including culture in the classroom.
1. First, please read McKay's Teaching English as an International Language.
2. Next, read this article about Moran's Cultural Knowings Framework.
Blog Question 1: Briefly reflect on your own classrooms. Have you been including EIL ideas either consciously or subconsciously? If so, how? If you have not, how could you include some EIL ideas? Or, if you reject the idea of EIL, why do you feel that way?
Blog Question 2: What part of your own culture could you teach following Moran's framework? Briefly explain how would you do it?
1. First, please read McKay's Teaching English as an International Language.
2. Next, read this article about Moran's Cultural Knowings Framework.
Blog Question 1: Briefly reflect on your own classrooms. Have you been including EIL ideas either consciously or subconsciously? If so, how? If you have not, how could you include some EIL ideas? Or, if you reject the idea of EIL, why do you feel that way?
Blog Question 2: What part of your own culture could you teach following Moran's framework? Briefly explain how would you do it?
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