TeachingSeminar

 This is the third in a series of seminars designed to familiarize students with issues surrounding the teaching of English as a second or other language. The fall seminar does this in English while also helping the student improve his or her own English level by having students work through Mary Spratt’s classic book English For The Teacher. By doing so, students will explore areas ranging from the nature of communication to classroom management and gender issues in the classroom as they further develop their own English with a particular emphasis on English related to teaching. Concurrently students will use Thornbury and Medding’s Teaching Unplugged to help them think more deeply on what it means to be a professional language teacher.
 * Seminar on Teaching English as a Foreign Language C  **
 * Chuck Sandy Spring Semester 2011 **
 * Email: ** charnelsan@mac.com ** Facebook: **www.facebook.com/ChuckSandy
 * Twitter: @chucksandy **

Further developing one’s own ability in a second language is an effective way to reflect on one’s own learning and teaching. For this reason, the course focused on examining language learning and teaching related issues in English in a way that provides reflective growth opportunities for the non-native English language teacher. By the end of the seminar, students will have a better understanding of their own learning / teaching styles and beliefs, will be able to have a clear policy in place for dealing with error correction, and will feel more confident about their use of English in class to give instructions, set up and conduct activities, and grow as a professional. In this course you will be expected to keep up with the class readings, keep a learning journal in which you write regular reflections, write three short (3-5 pages) papers of enough quality to be published in the English language teaching blogosphere. Additionally you will be expected to develop a PLN (Personal Learning Network) in English online and to participate regularly in online language teaching forums.  40 % Class attendance, preparation & participation 30 % Short Papers  20 % PLN (Personal Learning Network) activity 10 % Final exam  ** Textbooks   **   English For The Teacher Mary Spratt Cambridge 978-0-051042676-3  Teaching Unplugged Thornbury/ Meddings Delta 978-1905085194  ** Readings and activities for weeks 1 and 2  **  ** English For the Teacher  ** Unit 1 / do all except the listenings  ** Read  **  [|What Is A PLN Anyway]  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">** by Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto ** ** on the Teaching Village blog **

<span style="line-height: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">** [|PLN: Your Personal Learning Network Made Easy] ** <span style="line-height: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** by  ****  Kate Klingensmith on the Once a Teacher blog. ** <span style="line-height: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> [|The Teaching Village Blog List] <span style="line-height: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Choose 5 blogs to follow. Subscribe to them. ** <span style="line-height: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Watch  ** <span style="line-height: 16.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** [|Sketchy Explanations]  ****  : Starting a PLN on The Educator’s PLN  **

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