COD 2008 - D037

Planning my Lessons: The iceberg below the surface

Primary and Secondary Teachers and Coordinators.

4 sessions, start: 23-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: A distancia
Facilitator/s: Ms. Elizabeth White
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 160.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 23 April 2008 Online session
2 30 April 2008 Online session
3 07 May 2008 Online session
4 14 May 2008 Online session

Facilitator/s

Elizabeth White

Lic. Elizabeth White is a teacher of English and teacher trainer, graduate of I.S.P. "J. V. González". She holds a postgraduate degree in e-learning. She has worked as General Head of English Studies (Kindergarten to Secondary School) at bilingual schools in the Buenos Aires Province since 1988. She is a tenured lecturer in English Language Teaching and Teaching Practice at the ISP "Pbro. Sáenz", and is the coordinator of the Teaching Practice team. She has been an Oral Examiner for the University of Cambridge for over fifteen years. She has conducted several workshops, seminars and lectures around the country and abroad.
Primary and Secondary Teachers and Coordinators.
- Demonstrate appropriate understanding and use of terminology to describe teacher/learner language and behaviour. - Familiarize participants with lesson components and how to combine them to achieve a variety of purposes. - Explore participants' planning skills. - Analyze how the interaction of variables in the classroom affects meeting the objectives of the lesson and effective learning.
Module 1: Are my teacher/learner beliefs reflected in my lessons? How do learners learn what I teach? Analysis of classroom context. Meeting syllabus standards while catering for different learner levels. Module 2: What does planning involve? Balance of work plan components and the diagnosis. Long term and short term planning. Selection of lesson components: aims, contents, skills, strategies, activities, resources, assessment. Module 3: Criteria for sequencing lesson components. Alternatives to formal planning: "critical learning" moments. Lesson effectiveness: making learning happen. Module 4: Classroom variables and the unexpected. Achieving lesson coherence. Interactive decisions that work. Planning for heterogeneous classes. Professional work plans.
- Reading and critical discussion of bibliography. - Analysis and critical reflection on practices. - Reflection and analysis tasks.
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