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Topics, Materials, Links, Tasks (Dates should be ok, content not yet fully checked. Programme to be adjusted and completed as we go: come back and check before sessions!)

(25th Feb NO session --> double sessions)

1  /  3rd March

Focus: Semester Planning / Grammar at intermediate or advanced level

1 using the real KFR Agenda on  http://www.kfr.ch/gymnasium/termine/terminkalender/ and  (to be added)   and HJ's online classbook masterpage (use paper version provided) think about how you would plan your semester.

Consider the "idoceo" app for ipad: http://www.idoceo.net/index.php/en/

==> Find YOUR way of getting around all the relevant factors that determine a semester plan for each class, including slots for tests.

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2 Info about 2nd Semester (as far as planned already) / Building groups for literature presentations in sessions X Y // discuss peer observation

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3 Discussing differences between elementary and intermediate / advanced classes for teaching grammar

   ==> focus on instructing / constructing grammar/language structures at int./adv. level: Intermediate-Advanced-Ass.doc / (Eliciting game: elicit.pdf / eliciting game items (U3)TT.pdf  ETP-Oct03-HowToBeACreativeTeacher.pdf .

Future Tenses Implications.pdf Future Tenses Implications-empty.pdf Future Tenses Implications III-empty.pdf Future Tenses Implications II-empty.pdf Future Tenses Implications III.pdf Future Tenses Impl. II.pdf

Tasks:

1 (re-)read LT  Chs. 6 / 7   //  HTT Ch. 6  //  http://www.philseflsupport.com/efl_history.htm  for an overview / a history of mehtodology. Visit / download

 ETP-Mar05-ApproachesToGrammar.pdf,  ETP-Oct02-PPPUnderScrutiny.pdf,  ETPJan05-Natural Language Learning.pdf

2 Great papers to read for motivation and insight: ActiveLearningWorks.doc  FormativeTeachingMethods.doc   

  influences-on-student-learning.pdf   Reinforcement-1.doc   

3 Think of a 5-10' microteaching grammar sequence in an area of your choice (except "present perfect"). Think about what method/idea you will use for that specific sequence and why. You will present your sequence in Session 2

Focus: Teaching Grammar at intermediate and advanced level: micro-teaching sequences.

Discussing what we have read: which ideas do you find most useful / difficult to put into practice? 

Revision of methodology: eclectic approach.xls. 

Ways of presenting grammar: example: present perfect present-perfect.pdf 

Brief explanations of teaching concepts by G. Petty on video: http://www.teacherstoolbox.co.uk/effect_sizes.html

Questioning strategies: http://www.teacherstoolbox.co.uk/T_Which.html

active-passive exercise -.docx

Repetition passive.pptx

Past tenses.docx

Tasks: 

- Read: ETP-Mar04-MagigAuthenticVideo.pdf  ETP-Mar04-MagigAuthenticVideo2.pdf    ETP-Oct03-UsingVideo.  

3  /  17th March

Focus: Teaching through Video I

- working with film extracts: videosession.doc  (sound only / image only / what to do with Mr Bean video)

7 Tips For Using Popular Movies.docx e.g. https://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/film.htm

4  /  24th March

NO session on April 31st: Easter Break

Focus: Teaching through Video II

- working with film extracts: preview– postview activity questions / Director's job...  (Sh. G... etc. )

- popular culture:

Evolution Video,  Amy Video,  Dove lesson plan.doc  resources.doc

Grammar points with film extracts:

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/

Videos about teaching:

Focus: Teaching through Listening  at interm. / adv. level. : bring in examples if you have any successfully used ones

bush-rice.mp3   Peter and the wolf.zip future song titles.pdf

See you again - grammar rules.docx   Link to song (click) 

S P E C T R E.docx   Title Song Spectre

6  /  7   14th April

Double-Session

08.30 - 12.00

Focus: Teaching using Poetry:

with Simon Eggimann, FDE PH Bern (HJ IATEFL Conference GB). 

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Tasks: Mark the 4 essays according to your best system.

Essay Titles Merchant of Venice.doc

Essay 1.pdf Essay2.pdf   Essay3.pdf  Essay4.pdf

(Essays written in 2014. Please try to put them into an order (best, second, etc.) and try to find a mark that you can justify.)

Study some of the following documents:

Writing Argumentative Essays (an extensive guide)  Example Essays  

Free Argumentative Essays 

Still more guidance   Transitional Devices  

argumentative essay - example-outline.doc  Coherence in Writing.doc  connectives exercise.doc  

connectives exercise solutions.doc  connectives raw text.doc  ESSAY STRUCTURE.doc   

 holistic rating sacale.pdf   Language summary_argumentative essay.pdf  Linking devices essay.doc

8 / 21st April

Focus: Marking essays: discussing challenges in this field and how you can meet them.

Comparing results of marking / My method of marking essays, comparison: to be added

Correction sheet: Correction Master.pdf

Essay-marking-Method.pdf   My essay-marking-method.pdf

Grammar percentages.pdf

Task: Think of what might be different / special in a lesson where you use ICT  //

 - Browse through "Literature in the Language Classroom", so that you know what to look up where for lit. sessions.

9 / 10 / 28th April

double session, room 61 at KFR

08.15 - 12.00 at

KS Freudenberg!:

Map: Map-KFR.pdf

Mobile: 078 660 30 64

(5th May NO session: Ascnsion Day)

Focus: ICT in EFL:

http://perino.org/CALL

Example for webquest "Frankenstein": http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=124356

http://fdephbern.pbworks.com/w/page/52854801/FrontPage

• build your own wiki
• explore online components of coursebooks
• make your own webquest
• create language activities
• lots more...

Task:  finalize presentation on working with your reading books: describe/present entire reading phase with class. Include ONE practical sample of a task and DO this with our group as a micro-teaching exercise.

Focus: literature: group(s) 1

PLEASE publish all your group documents HERE (click) Thank you.

Focus: literature: group(s) 2

PLEASE publish all your group documents HERE (click) Thank you.

13  / 26th  May

Focus: "Diploma Lesson": Information about Colloquium /-a and what is expected in the lesson itself.

Wegleitung Lehrdiplom: Wegleitung_Berufspraxis_120829.pdf

Example documents of a hard diploma lesson:

THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH text.doc  Lesson Plan.doc  edgar allan poe.doc  edgar allan po1.doc

(please take note that this is probably the hardest text that I have ever set as an exam story – to a student I knew was brilliant – who did get her 6 with this, too)

Other stories that I have recently used:

mankind.doc  machine.pdf  store of the worlds.pdf  painful case Joyce.pdf  banal-story.pdf

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Points to consider-diploma.doc

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Anmeldeformulare Praktikum: Please download and bring to last session, so I can SIGN them!

All other relevant documents to be downloaded are found here:

http://www.ife.uzh.ch/llbm/lehrdiplomfuermaturitaetsschulen/reglemente.html

What has not been said yet: your questions, remarks, observations:

- (your points here!)

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Teacher Development

Magazines: English Teaching Professional    Modern English Teacher 

Teasing you with a few scanned articles:

ETP-Jul02-road to autonomy.pdf   ETP-Jan04-WhatMakesYouSoSpecial.pdf   ETP-Jul03-problems-congratulation.pdf

ETP-Mar04-practicewhat YouPreach.pdf  ETP-Oct02-StimulusBasedTeaching.pdf   ETP-Jan04-PersonalProfile.pdf

Networking / Training:

Teacher Development Resource Page

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Your questions: European Language Portfolio: see here (click!) . Is to do with the new branding of "levels" as A1, A2 up to C1, C2 (~CPE). Also students are encouraged to keep a portfolio of their own "can do" levels, and decide in which areas they want to develop (four skills, oral, written, ...). In daily practice not so much will change: our coursebook will be labelled "A2" or whatever the level is, we periodically confront students with the "can do" definitions of the various levels. See ALL scales here: All scales CEFR.DOC  .

Selbstorganisiertes Lernen: Projekt SOL: Leitlinien_2008_12.pdf  Häufig gestellte Fragen.pdf .

Task:  formulate questions from / about lessons taught or observed. Bring in your questions to session of June 2nd

14  / 2nd June

Meeting location: Café Bubbles

Bye-bye session:  What we did not have time to discuss before:

(your questions, remarks, topics)

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Dear all,

Below the link to Café Bubbles. They serve the full English breakfast only until 10am. After that it's continental breakfast (musli, croissants etc.)

See you there!

Fabian

http://www.cafe-bubbles.ch/Startseite/

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Trial-Lesson-colloquium: Discussing your questions from your classroom experience (taught or observed)

Task:  keep working and developing to grow into an expert teacher within the next 10 years.