Course learning objectives
- Learn about core communicative and didactic principles for teaching in English
- Learn to apply specific communicative skills (meta-structure, use of questions, speech rate) to your teaching
- Learn to apply specific student activation methods
- Learn to give oral and written feedback on peer activities
Course content
The course will focus on three language skills (Writing, Listening, and Speaking) with particular emphasis on oral communicative skills for teaching. You will learn about key didactic principles (establishing learning objectives, activating students) and communicative strategies (meta-structure and cohesion, using questions, speech rate and articulation) for teaching in English and have ample opportunity to apply these in individual and group work during the course.
The course will culminate with each participant conducting a mock mini-lesson with learning objectives. Each mini-lesson will receive oral feedback from course participants as well as written comments from the course instructors. The mock mini-lessons can be recorded as a valuable reference for further professional development in teaching in English. The course will be accompanied by material designed to complement in-class activities as well as your content specific material (slides/handouts).
Certificate of Completion Requirements
In order to receive a certificate of completion, you must fulfill three requirements:
- attend 80% of the classes
- conduct a 10-20 minute mock teaching exercise on your field of expertise
- write a self-reflection report on your mock teaching exercise
- write and submit feedback on one peer’s teaching exercise
Instructors
Gregg Dubow, Susanne Gundermann
Registration - Please only register for one course!!
Course 1 (starts on 21.10.2014): Tuesdays 10-12 h, Breisacher Tor – room 103. To register, click here
Course 2 (starts on 22.10.2014): Wednesdays 16-18h, Hermann-Herder-Str. 9 – HS 01 020a. To register, click here
Both courses are identical and take place during the winter term (21 October 2014 until 11 February 2015, 14 sessions in total).
Upon registration, you will receive a notification form, which will have to be signed by your supervisor in advance and submitted, either via Hauspost or fax (203-8959). The form states that you have signed up for the course and that if course requirements are fulfilled, you will receive a certificate of completion. This course is free of charge and part of the English Medium Instruction Program financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
