General Course Overview
This Course provides key pedagogical, technological and assessment principles for English language teachers to apply in teaching English in all delivery modes in real life contexts.
It takes a practical, interactive and reflective learning approach.
Experienced trainers are 03 qualified Vietnamese instructors based in Australia with good understanding of the Vietnamese teaching contexts and practical knowledge and experience in the field of English language teaching.
The course is organized in 7 online teaching sessions scheduled for 2 hours/each online session on Saturdays and Sundays for 4 weekends long. The language of instruction in this course is Vietnamese.
Course Requirements
There is no course prerequisite. At the beginning of the course, participants are informed of both formative and summative assessments of the course.
Course Expectations
Participants are expected to complete pre-module readings, watch provided videos, participate actively, interact collaboratively, reflect critically, and fulfil required assessments if the course.
Module 1 - (Smart Teach) Overview
This Module #1 helps YOU become a SMARTER English Language Teacher through a high level of self-awareness and smart application of key practical pedagogical principles to your own teaching context(s) with positive impacts on your students' engagement and active/transformative learning. Particularly, this module will go through
1. 02 useful resources which will help you reflect on your own pedagogical ways of teaching English
2. 3 simple pedagogical mistakes that people make in their English language teaching journey (and how to fix them)
3. 04 key practical pedagogical principles to help you learn how to become a smarter English language teacher and start reflection on how to transform your own teaching in your own context
Module 2 - (Smart Tech) Overview
Module #2 helps YOU become a SMARTER English Language Teacher through a high level of self-awareness of key principles of smart technology use in language teaching, and smarter application to your specific contexts to result in your students' engagement and active/transformative learning. Particularly, this module will provide hands-on guidance on:
1. How to search for any online resources, including teaching materials and tools, to facilitate your teaching and learning
2. How to use technologies for lesson planning and delivery with the focus on using Google apps
3. How to use technologies to teach language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing) and components (vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation) to transform your own teaching in your own context
4. How to use technologies for continuing professional development (CPD) beyond this signature course
Module 3 - (Smart Assess) Overview
Module #3 helps YOU become a SMARTER English Language Teacher through raising your awareness of the key principles of quality assessment, the standard process of assessment development, and the practical ways to enhance your assessment practices. It also assists you in applying the learning to your specific contexts. Particularly, this module will go through:
1. 01 resource which introduces you to a standard process of assessment development in both large-scale and classroom assessments,
2. 02 resources which detail the indicators of assessment competency/literacy of teachers in Vietnam and in the world for your comparison,
3. 05 fundamental principles of quality assessment that help you develop and use assessments appropriately, and
4. A range of practical ways to inspect texts, evaluate assessment content, and create assessments to measure intended learning outcomes.
