Nr. / Dates

(Times, if special)

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

Main Web Page: perino.pbworks.com  mail: click here! (hperino [at] mac . com)

1  /  23 September 2010

thrown into the classroom... visual input... find someone who...

introduction, information, administrational stuff, organizing mini-presentations of methods, 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.

task: go to "perino.pbworks.com“ --> http://perino.pbworks.com/FDE-I-HS-2010-11 (this is right here :-) and download these documents:

core-requirements.pdf (read for Session 2!)

1st-Lesson-dos-n-donts.doc

read "Was Didaktiker gerne verschweigen" (link to A. Barth's web-download page), read:

Before didactics.doc  t-factor-print.jpg, classlanguage.pdf  

what do teachers do.doc   Teacher-Personality-MR.doc

in HTT read ch 2 (Teachers) / LT pp. 15-26 and 34-37. browse through

teachingsecrets.pdf, READ p. 7 of it.

go to the CONTACT PAGE (click!) and post a photo with your name.

If you haven't yet, get books indicated on the main page (click!)

2  /  30 September

Pres: Grammar-Translation Method : .../ discuss "core requirements",  start thinking about “what is a good (English) teacher”, teacher personality, teacher’s roles and attitudes // develop criteria for "good" publisher's webpage

task: as a result of your readings and our discussions, try to “draw” a picture of the universal, ideal English teacher. write a short text about "the kind of good teacher I want to be"

Links to publishers: Cambridge, Cornelson, MacMillan-Dictionary, MacMillan-Home, Oxford University Press, Headway, Pearson-Longman,  New English File, New Cutting Edge, New Inside Out,   --> compare the various websites and put them into order as to their usefulness for a teacher (justify your ranking)

Other links: How to choose a coursebook, Materials vs. Methods: Need they be in Conflict?  Systematic Coursebook Evaluation, read LT ch. 12 pp. 252-273, HTT ch. 11 / read choosing-a-coursebook.doc , download "bookgrid.xls. BRING IT TO THE BOOKSHOP. Another page on criteria for coursebooks
 

–  /  7 October

No Session (HJ in Russia :-)

3/4  /  14 October

Double

Session!

Takes place at Stäheli's bookshop (1st part, see map here) and KS Freudenberg (2nd part, see map here)

08.15 – 12.00

(no session 7 Oct)

evaluation of coursebooks, we will choose "our" book to work with when planning pre-intermediate lessons: FIRST PART WILL TAKE PLACE AT Stäheli's BOOKSHOP at Bederstr. 77, Zürich!

http://www.staehelibooks.ch/ (see map here) / Also choose Graded Reader to work with later.

2^nd part at KFR, room:   answer ppt "teachers are..."  + your texts

C3_Epostl_E.pdf  /  “first lesson“ activity.

Discussing websites of publishers, how to choose a coursebook

Info "Übungslehrer (click here!)"

(as far as they have answered yet) --> choosing available ones / start thinking about classroom management. discussing , classroom situation, student contact. / forming groups to prepare lesson plans with chosen coursebook (brainstorming ideas at this stage --> read about lesson planning for time after next --> complete lesson plans in "working session" on Oct 21)

The book we chose at Stäheli's for Pre-Intermediate levele is "..."

task: read HTT ch. 12, LT ch. 6, 16 / read docs, visit links: 

Teaching Techniques

Approaches & Methods in Second Language Teaching

Designing a Lesson

Swisseduc Lesson Plans English

Teachknowlogy Page

Input on Lesson Plans

Making a Lesson Plans (with samples)

5  /  21 October

Pres: Direct Method: Jeannette, Javier   // 

Working Session "Lesson Plans"  Lessonplan-model.doc  / IGB__BA_Wegleitung.pdf /

Conversation questions link (click) ENGLISH WOMEN'S NAMES.pdf  ENGLISH MEN'S NAMES.pdf

Info on how to upload to PbWorks (given during session), upload lesson plans here (click)

task: finish lesson plans (HTT 12, LT 6, 16 as sources of ideas). upload your lesson plans to Pbworks and DOWNLOAD all the other plans. Study them in preparation for the session, so that we can comment on them as they are presented.

Pres: The Silent Way: Pascal, Jonita  / 

Upload lesson plans here (click) [same page as in session 5]

teaching grammar.pdf 

7  /  4 November

Pres: Desuggestopedia André, Véronique  discussing remaining lesson plans / your quesions

task: read LT ch. 5, HTT ch. 3 plus links and docs: 

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

classroom management answers CLM tips and answers  the really big list of CLM resources  

least-intervention.pdf  Becoming a more efficient Classroom Manager.pdf 

Elements of a discipline plan

Kounin-engl-sum.doc

Techniken Klassenfuehrung.doc

responsible classroom management.doc

Org des Unterrichts.doc

First Impression.doc

Penalties in the Classroom.doc

test yourself: click here  / or here  /  or here  /

What learner type are you? (click to find out!)

8  /  11 November

Pres: Community Language Teaching Craig, Marc

Wahlplakat_FINAL.pdf

Vote here!

aspects of classroom management (DVD input) / input on how to keep up the flow over various phases of a lesson / classlang.pdf

task:  read docs, visit links:

Artikel9Maturfaecher.doc   Grobziele.doc  WeitereArtikelderMAR.doc 

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

MAR (Maturitätsanerkennungsreglement)  MBA (Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt Kt. ZH) 

9  /  18 November

Pres: Total Physical Response Lella, Philipp Info "Lehrplan" / teaching situation in Kanton Zürich  / starting to think about vocabulary, speaking, error correction

tasks:   read LT ch. 7, 14-1,7; HTT ch. 6, 9, 14-1/6/7 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  

10/  25 November

 Pres: Communicative Language Teaching  Judith, Ari

Picture story_christmas.doc

Bush at a loss.wmv   George Bush kidnapped.doc

 vocabulary (DVD input HTT 6), speaking, error correction / 

11  /  2 December

Pres: Audio-Lingual Method ... / Vocabulary, Error correction, speaking

Test your vocabulary here!

task: read HTT ch. 13, LT ch. 14-2 (p. 302 on)   

12 /  9 December

(Pres: Content-based, Task-based, and Participatory Appraches Stella, Claudia    testing / discussion and working session to start your task.

upload your tests here (click!)

Summative and Formative Testing  Summative and Formative Testing (wikipedia) 

Testing (collection of links)

Diagnostic Grammar Test (check yourself!)  Testing Grammar - types of tests 

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

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

                     TEST NNHE U 3-4.pdf  Test NEF E U8 1+2.doc  TEST NEF 9 + Canterville.pdf

6d test 10-07.pdf  TEST HE U 3-4.pdf  Test U1_2 HWE.pdf  NEF E Mini 4-07.pdf  

TEST NEF6-7.pdf  NEF E Mini 2-2007.pdf  TEST NEF U608.pdf  NEF-E Test 1 08.pdf

NEF-E U2A-C 08.pdf  Test NEF I U4AB.pdf  Test NEF I U3.pdf 

Deciding about what 5 works to read for second semester (literature)

task: write a well-thought-out, reliable and valid test about "your" lesson (cf. sessions 4-6) and UPLOAD ITestsHS10T TO PBworks.)

13 / 16 December

Pres: Learning Strategies Training, Cooperative Learning and Multiple Intelligences  Karin, Annina/  Discussing your tests / starting to think about reading simplified texts.

Pres: Conclusion /  reading simplified texts: (second semester!)  / (DVD input HTT 7) /

your feedback, questions, remarks, wishes for the second semester, preview

task: read LT ch. 8-5/6; HTT ch. 7  /  

++task: (see task for second semester)

14  /  23 December

discussing tests / reading simplified texts

task for second semester:  ( Re-)read the following texts BEFORE the 2nd semester starts:The Crucible, Great Gatsby, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Shortstories, The Merchant of Venice.

Beginning of the 2nd SEMESTER FDE on DO 24 Feb. 2011.

Will contain two double sessions: to be determined

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