Teacher training - Course development

Web Pal Project

Course development July 5th - 9th, 2021

The process

Day 3

Lesson planning

Day 2

Online teaching

Day 1

Course development

• Beliefs about teaching and learning
• Approaches to teaching Foreig n languages
• Course planning / Taxonomies
• Course development

• Online teaching: Tips, resources and activities.
• Lesson Planning

Presentation and discussion of lesson 1

Day 1

Course development

Beliefs about teaching

Share your experience learning and teaching a foreign language...- what methods/teachers you liked most and why? - What is your best memory about that process? - What do you think is the best way of teaching a FL? why?

My teaching philosophy

Your teaching philosophy comes from your own experience as a learner or as a teacher. It is all what you believe about teaching. It is the way you teach and interact with your students.

Course planning

You are going to look at the topics provided by the foundation, then...

Group, select, order, delete as you consider convenient.

What do you think are the objectives of this language programme?

How would you teach that content and why?

What should learners be able to do at the end of this course?

Coffee break

15 minutes

Taxonomies

Bloom's taxonomy

Bloom's taxonomy revised

Taxonomies

and how to use them

Discuss:

- How do we use this taxonomy in a language course for young learners? - Choose one topic from the syllabus and write 2 learning outcomes for that topic.

Homework

Methodologies

for language teaching

- What is your opinion about the methodologies that you read about? - Do you think is there one more effective than the others? - Are they still being used? should we still use them? how? - According to the objectives of this programme, what would be the most appropriate methodology to use?

Read and share your thoughts

CBI

TBA

Content Based Instruction

Task Based Approach

Read and reflect:

- How can we adapt these two methodologies for this course?

Day 2

Online teaching: Tips, resources and activities

Guest speaker

Natalia Cardona Villa

She has vast experience developing materials to teach foreign languages and working with young learners.Today she is going to share with you some useful tips and tools to teach foreign languages online to young learners.SShe She

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Lesson planning

Why is it important to plan every lesson?

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What are essential elements in a lesson plan?

What aspects do we need to consider when planning for online teaching?

Lesson plan template

Learning styles

Do you know your learning style?

take the test here

How do I know what is my student's learning style?

Reflect: how do I plan a lesson if each one of my students has a different learning style?

Let's get creative!!

Work on the course syllabus.

Tools/resources to explore

Profe de ELE

Micrsoft Teams

Oxford learner's dictionary

Edmodo

Thank you!