The overall goal of the course is for participants to be able to successfully plan,
teach, and evaluate ESOL classes. This goal can be broken down into the
following objectives:
Plan
- Write clear learning objectives appropriate for students.
- Identify potential challenges for students – with language and with tasks.
- Prepare to address challenges appropriately.
- Incorporate appropriate variety of technique, focus (teacher and student roles) and
modality (visual, auditory, kinesthetic).
- Create learner-centered activities.
- Design activities appropriate to class size, student needs, levels and interests.
- Sequence lesson logically: providing ample meaningful practice, recycling of material
and opportunity for assessment.
- Set well-defined objectives for him/herself as a teacher.
- Incorporate appropriate use of input from workshops, English Language Teaching
(ELT) materials and resources.
Teach
- Develop rapport with students and create a respectful, secure, motivating, learner-
centered environment.
- Use oral and body language appropriate for student level and context: vocabulary,
speed, tone and gestures.
- Get and act upon feedback from students – ongoing and structured.
- Adjust lesson plan as necessary, while moving toward objectives.
- Give clear instructions.
- Convey meaning in context clearly and accurately.
- Check understanding of language, concepts and tasks.
- Clarify form, meaning and use (as appropriate) of target language/culture points in
all stages of lesson.
- Respond sensitively, appropriately and respectfully to students equally – in terms of
needs, interests and background.
- Organize students and space in ways appropriate to activities and in order to foster
learner centered learning.
- Effectively manage pair, group and individual work.
- Assess student learning and provide appropriate feedback to students on their
performance (i.e. error treatment and affirmation).
- Incorporate appropriate teacher and student roles for various stages in the lesson.
- Use AV resources effectively.
Evaluate
- Discuss how student learning objectives were met with supporting evidence from
individual students and from large group behavior.
- Identify and usefully communicate the significant strengths in lesson plan and
teaching for self and peers in relation to meeting student learning and teaching
objectives.
- Identify and usefully communicate the significant challenges in lesson plan and
teaching for self and peers in relation to meeting student learning and teaching
objectives.
- Identify internal/external; factors which help/hinder own development as a teacher.
- Generate and incorporate in future teaching appropriate actions to address
challenges in response to self-reflection or feedback from others (trainers, peers,
and students).
- Discuss teaching in terms of basic ELT concepts and methodology: learner-centered
teaching, lesson planning frameworks, inductive/deductive methods, learning styles
and modalities, monitoring, assessment and error treatment strategies,
Form/Meaning/Use/Pronunciation aspects of language points.
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