Nr. / Dates / Jump to Sessions:

1 into the classroom

2 coursebooks,

3 coursebooks,

4 good Engl.Teacher,

5 lesson plans,

6 cl.room managem.,

7 disc. l-plans,

8 disc. l-plans,

9 Lehrplan KTZ, 

10 speak, vocab,

11 error corr. q&a tests,

12 writing tests,

13 discussing tests,

14 q&a feedback breakfast 

(Times, if special) ▼

Most important administrational links: Email-me here: click!  /  Room: SOD 1 104 has changed!

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- Olat group link: https://lms.uzh.ch/auth/BusinessGroup/16622916015/toolmembers/0

- Requirements / Books to buy for the course (reading list)

- MBA (Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt Kt. ZH)  VO_MAR_d.pdf 

   EDK: http://www.edk.ch/dyn/13723.php 

- KSM School Timetable H. Perino:  KSM Stundenplan 20-21.pdf

- Link to online classbook KS Menzingen, HJ Perino (click!)  /  Address KS Menzingen: Seminarstrasse 12, 6313 M. (Kroki click)

- Materials for teaching with English File Upper Intermediate 3rd edition

- CONTACT PAGE  (photos of participants: not necessary with small group)

- upload lesson plans (+ additional materials, worksheets etc.) here (click)

- Info "Übungslehrer (click here!)"

- upload your tests here (click!) 

- (Re-)read the following texts BEFORE the 2nd semester starts: to be determined by group.

2nd SEMESTER of FDE: Start on 25th Feb 2021: 

NO sessions: to be determined vs.  DOUBLE session: 8:15 – 12:00:    /  Last session: 3rd June 21.

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topic of seminar session, particulars of session, tasks, info ... : ▼

1  /  17 September 2020

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Focus: thrown into the classroom...

visual input... discuss questions about movie extracts from "Summerschool"

dominant-cooperative.pdf (from Geof Petty: Evidence Based Teaching (2009).)

introduction, information, administrational stuff,

presentation of programme, introduction to PBworks.

Our motto: we will prepare and present professional lessons: i.e. we know what we do, how we do it and why we do it.

read for interest: 

  "Was Didaktiker gerne verschweigen" (link to PDF on A. Barth's web-download page),  Barth_03-2011 - Jedem Anfang....pdf  

look at some different publihers' pages and compare them:

Links to publishers: Cambridge, Cornelson, MacMillan-Dictionary, MacMillan-Home, Oxford University Press, Headway, Pearson-Longan,  (New) English File, Cutting Edge 3rd Edition, New Inside Out, New Inspiration (MacMillan)  

Tasks:

lessonvisit-checks.xlsx (download table to fill in for your convenience)

Other links (browse): How to choose a coursebook,   Another page on criteria for course books,

 read:   choosing-a-coursebook.docx , download   bookgrid.xlsx   BRING IT TO SESSION. 

read HTT ch. 11 (Using coursebooks)

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Interesting to know: Supposed competences in English of pupils after 6th year of primary school: lehrmittel_e_ps_themen_treffpkt.pdf What does this mean for Lang-Gymnasium?

 2 + 3 /  24 September

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Focus: evaluation of course books 

First part: your reasearch into course books / publishers.

Discussing  of publishers as to their usefulness

Online resources for Life pre-intermediate: https://www.ngllife.com/student-zone-grammar-practice-worksheets/pre-intermediate 

We will choose "our" book to work with when planning pre-intermediate lessons:  

National Geographic: LIFE, pre-intermediate, 2nd ed. 

• ISBN-10 : 1337285706
• ISBN-13 : 978-1337285704

Second Part: 

How do we use a coursebook – on paper / electronic?

Tasks:

read docs, visit links: 

core-requirements.pdf  /   Teacher-Personality-MR.docx  /  Before didactics.docx  /  what do teachers do.docx  /  1st-Lesson-dos-n-donts.docx  /  t-factor-print.jpg, classlanguage.pdf  /  

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4     / 1  October

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(NO Sessions 8th and 15th October!)

Focus: “what is a good (English) teacher”

Teacher personality, teacher’s roles and attitudes /Answer ppt "teachers are..." (not done!) / born or aquired? //

https://youtu.be/FXaLGt460e4 (what makes teachers great teachers?)

Jeremy Harmer: https://youtu.be/BRTgIXPoyYU  (beg / 4:18)

Jim Scrivener: https://youtu.be/D2mD2RMlqOY   (from 19:45) 

“first lesson“ activity.   1st-Lesson-dos-n-donts.docx   ENGLISH WOMEN'S NAMES.pdf  / ENGLISH MEN'S NAMES.pdf  / Barth_03-2011-jedem Anfang....pdf  /  classroom language.pdf / Conversation Questions: http://iteslj.org/questions/

I am a teacher.pdf   

Discussing lesson plans, form teams.

Tasks:

As a result of your readings and our discussions, write a short text about "the kind of good teacher I want to be"  

Get inspired for your lesson plans by reading the following: read HTT ch. 12 (planning lessons/lesson plans), LT ch. 6 (planning lessons), 15 (tools, techniques, activities) /   Making a Lesson Plan (with samples)  / Swisseduc Lesson Plans /  lesson-aims.docx   LPf.pdf    preparing-lessonplan.docx  /  PBL.pdf

use Lessonplan-model.docx  (grid to use for this group ---> not the only possible one, of course, but we are using the same grid for it to be comparable!)

5  /  22 October

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Presentation: Community Language Learning: Nadja, Esperanza

CLL_Esperanza_Nadja.pptx

Focus: Working Session "Lesson Plans" 

Crucial Questions for Preparing Lesson Plans.docx  /  Methods.docx

Lessonplan-model.docx

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/resources/secondary/lesson-plans/pre-intermediate-a2 

upload lesson plans (+ additional materials, worksheets etc.) here (click)

Tasks:

upload your lesson plans to Pbworks and DOWNLOAD all the other plans for Nov 5th / 12th sessions.

tasks for topic classroom management (29th October): read LT ch. 3, HTT ch. 3 

(Re-)READ one or both: Was Fachdidaktiker gerne verschweigen.pdf   Was Fachdidaktiker ausserdem verschweigen.pdf

look at some of these links and docs:  

ETP-Jul03-classroom organisation.pdf  ETP-Nov04-spirit of cohesion.pdf 

classroom management answers CLM tips and answers  http://www.geschichte-erforschen.de/unterricht/kounin/index.htm   least-intervention.pdf  Becoming a more efficient Classroom Manager.pdf 

Kounin-engl-sum.doc

responsible classroom management.doc

Org des Unterrichts.doc

First Impression.doc

Penalties in the Classroom.doc

NEW LINK: Key to CLM! (click!)

test yourself: here  /  or here  /

Critical approach to "learning styles":  https://ctl.yale.edu/LearningStylesMyth

6  /  29 October

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Presentation: Silent Way: Esperanza, Nadja

The_Silent_Way_Esperanza_Nadja.pptx  

Focus: aspects of classroom management 

input H. Perino, how to keep up the flow over various phases of a lesson / documents the input will make reference to:  classlang.pdf   ClassroomManagement2.doc  Ericsson-Deliberate Practice-Expert.docx   Teachers_make_a_difference_-_ACER_(2003).pdf

finalkouninpresentation.pptx least-intervention.pdf

Classroom management for Dummies...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km7X5kQYOg8

guidlines-for-praise.docx   self-report.pdf   CLM-checkliste Jugendliche-lowres.pdf

dominant-cooperative.pdf    

Tasks:

 finalise lesson plans if necessary. 

7 /  5 November

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Presentation:  Content Based, Tamara, Aida

FDE 1 Content-based approach_Tamara_Aida.pptx

Info "Übungslehrer (click here!)"

Focus: presenting and discussing your lesson plans

download lesson plans (+ additional materials, worksheets etc.) from here (click) / or see in OneNote

Working with Lessonplans ---> check critically if:
-  engaging opening
-  enough input for students to figure out rules (do not ask them to tell you what they should actually learn in the lesson)
-  time calculated realistically?
-  enough and adequate practice
-  use of different skills
-  smooth transition between phases?

-  you name it...

 --> choosing from offers available 

Tasks:

8  /  12 November

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Presentation: Grammar Translation: Alexandra, Muriel

 Grammar-Translation Muriel & Alexandra(1).pptx

Focus: presenting and discussing your lesson plans (continued)

download lesson plans (+ additional materials, worksheets etc.)  from here (click)

warmers, fillers, games:

Important: Warm up TO THE LESSON YOU WANT TO TEACH.

- football: vocab, verb forms, opposites, picture-word, ...

- "Simon says": direct instruction: action verbs, giving directions, ...

- rucksack game (memorize vocab)

- collecting language material: adjectives, verbs, nouns, what you need!

- find someone who: questions + vocabulary (pre-intermediate), exchanging opinion (intermediate, advanced)

- Quizzes, crosswords: vocabulary, forms

- line by line revealing (e.g. Trump text): prediction, grammatical structure

- rhythm for structures: Rhythm with questions-past.xls  Verbs to use in rhythm activity.docx

- humourous grammar rules (intermediate, advanced): http://www.creativeteachingsite.com/humorgrammar.htm

- running dictations (content purposeful!) / George Bush kidnapped.docx

– use concept questions: http://www.developingteachers.com/tips/conceptqs.htm

- role plays: roleplays_sample.pdf  swappy-roleplays-for-adults-2-bw-version-included.doc  swappy-roleplays-for-adults-1.doc

- talking rounds with lots of input: phones.pdf   emotions.doc   emotions.doc

- collective story telling, oral, written

Tasks:

read docs, visit links:

New since 2016: gym_maturitaet_kurzbericht_uni_zh_d.pdf

Grobziele.docx     Rahmenlehrplan-Englisch.pdf   / 

16_Lehrplan2015_v1-10.pdf (Lehrplan KSM)

 KUGU_III_report_englisch.docx  HSGYM+English+Recommendations.pdf

lohntabelle97.pdf   Arbeitstabelle Jahresgrundlohn07.pdf  Lohnskalen zur MBVO (Löhne ab 01_01_2009).pdf

Arbeitstabelle+Jahreslohn 2012.pdf   2018: salaries 2018.pdf   Anstellungsbedingungen Lehrkräfte Kt. Zürich

MBA (Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt Kt. ZH)  VO_MAR_d.pdf

EDK: http://www.edk.ch/dyn/13723.php 

9  /  19 November

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Presentation: Task Based, Aida, Tamara

FDE 1 task-based approach_Aida_Tamara.pptx  

Focus: "Lehrplan" / teaching situation in Kanton Zürich  / starting to think about vocabulary, speaking, error correction

look at berufspraktische Ausbildung as a whole:
http://www.ife.uzh.ch/llbm/lehrdiplomfuermaturitaetsschulen/berufspraktischeausbildung.html

Salaries:

https://www.luzernerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/so-viel-verdienen-lehrer-der-grosse-schweizer-lohnreport-2020-ld.1247590?xing_share=news#subtitle-l-hne-am-gymnasium-second

http://www.kfr.ch/gymnasium/downloadshauptseite/downloads/

Where Primary School should meet Gymnasium in English:

lehrmittel_e_ps_themen_treffpkt.pdf

Tasks:

read LT ch. 9.1-9.5; ch. 12; HTT ch. 6 (esp. p.96 ff), visit links and read documents on PBwiki

ETP-Nov04-The Shy Speaker.pdf   ETP-Mar05-SpeakingSpontaneously4.pdf   ETP-Mar05-AuthenticCommunication.pdf   ETP-Jan05-speaking spontaneaously.pdf  

ETP-Oct02-,VocabLearningActivities.pdf

Taboos and Issues (ideas for spicy vocabulary lessons...)

Answer sheet "What I would do" (error correction) What I would do.pdf  read HTT ch. 9 / LT Ch. 8, 9, 11 

 10 and 11  /  26 November

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Presentation: Learning Strategies: Muriel, Alexandra

Focus: Speaking / Error Correction / Vocabulary / Open session: your questions

Session 10:

Conversation Questions: http://iteslj.org/questions/ ===> "speed-dating" seating arrangement! 

elicit.pdf

eliciting game items.pdf

errors.pdf

Test your vocabulary here!

Documents and links used in session:

collocations.pdf  /  vocab ~ video HTT 6vocab.pd   /   http://www.learningchocolate.com/en-gb/content/emotions 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eltpics/sets/  /  say-speak-talk-tell.pdf

error-correction task.pdf  /  c_feedback.pdf  /  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBmZ6trNf4  / clear correction.pdf

EllisSheenMySummary.docx   /  russell.pdf (see highlighted passages especially)  /  Pedagogy of Error Correction.pdf  /

Jeremy Harmer on "Correction": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlGc1ZDnxgA

(maybe interesting in connection with your "teacher's skills" test:) types of feedback.pdf

Tasks:

read HTT ch. 13 and:  Summative, Formative and other Testing (wikipedia)

About "validity and reliability" in testing   other source for the same 

Browse:

Testing (collection of links)   Diagnostic Grammar Test (check yourself!)    Testing Grammar - types of tests    reliable & valid test.pdf

correction-sheet.jpg  What-is-a-good-test.docx

sample tests: TEST FOAE U7 part II.pdf  TEST NHWE 9 -10.pdf  TEST NHWE 11-body.pdf

                     TEST NNHE U 3-4.pdf

exam GWB2 U5 K1a17.pdf GWB2 U1 K1a16.pdf  

The World of Modal Verbs - overview.pdf

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Session 11: 

Online testing: https://www.classmarker.com/    /  https://istest2.ch/ 

http://onlinetesten.pbworks.com/w/page/142271028/OnlineTestenHJP 

Exam U1 EF3rd pre-int 2016.pdf   Exam U2 EF Pre-int 2016.pdf  

(Text - classmarker) Exam U8 NEF Pre-int 2017 L2a.pdf

Latest tests: Exam U1 EF Upper-int 2018-19.pdf  /  Exam L3b EFUI U2 and Text.pdf

                   Exam U2 EF UI sF19.pdf   /  Exam L4b EFUI U7 Text.pdf

Fair testing.pdf

Oral Mark example:

self-evaluationL2aHS2017-18.pdf

self-evaluation K3z FS2019.pdf  (compare the two versions)

Tasks:

Marking tests...

For session on 5 December, study links and documents about testing (above) so that you are well prepared for the working session. 

 12 /   3 December

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Presentation: Manuela, Sina: Communicative Language Teaching

Communicative Language Teaching.pptx  

Focus: Writing Tests 

upload your tests here (click!)

Focus: Writing Tests (working session)

online materials with EF Upper-Int 3rd ed (book used at KS Menzingen): https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/upperint3/?cc=ch&selLanguage=en

Testing Classmarker.com as online platform

Noten_formel.pdf (Offizielle Notenformel Kanton Zürich)

Calculate marks online: https://www.lehrerfreund.de/schule/1s/notenschluesselrechner/3608 

Tasks:

13  /  10 December

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Presentation: Manuela, Sina: Political Dimension – Participatory Approach

Learning Strategies.pptx

ParticipatoryApproach.pptx

Test yourself! http://www.world-english.org/diagnostic_grammar.htm

Focus: discussing your tests

14 /  17 December

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Focus: discussing your tests

Q & A  Session 

task for second semester: (What last year's group chose, you can make your own choice!)

( Re-)read the following texts BEFORE the 2nd semester starts: to be determined by group: doodle)

 C3_Epostl_E.pdf : measure your progress as a teacher!

End of Semester / Have a great Xmas Break!

Beginning of the 2nd SEMESTER of FDE: WED (!) 2-4 pm, 24th Feb 2021.

NO sessions: 7th April (Easter), 21st April, May 12th (Ascension)

DOUBLE session: (19th May)

Last session: 2nd June 21

For the second semester: Raithby, Katherine and Taylor, Alison:  Teaching Literature in the A Level Modern Languages Classroom (A resource book of ideas and activities), 2019 / ISBN 978-1-138-30351-5 

amazon online Bestellung here  /  lesestoff.ch

This programme will be completed and adjusted as we go. Please always refer to the up-to-date version on this page !