EDUC 647: Advanced TESL Methods, Design, and Procedures

1. By the third week of classes, if you are NOT registered for EDUC 742, Teaching Practicum, you should schedule your thirty minute teaching assignment (completing the assignment no later than, Week 8, October 20). For those scoring less than 90% on the first lesson, a second miro-teaching will need to be completed no later than Week 12, November 17). Students enrolled in EDUC 742 with Joe Matterer are exempted from this assignment. If you are currently not teaching ESL in an institutional setting, arrangements should be made through Dr. Stevens to teach at the ELI or at some other appropriate site, where you will take part of a class currently being taught by another ESL teacher. In this case, you should plan to observe at least two classes prior to conducting your own teaching session in order to understand fully the context of the class and to develop familiarity with the students (and they with you). In addition, the observation should help you identify effective teaching approaches you might wish to incorporate into your own teaching. Use the observation guide provided in class and turn in these notes with your lesson. The lesson you develop and teach should supplement on-going class activities.
2. Your cooperating faculty member will observe your class live; Dr. Stevens will view the recorded lesson either through YouTube (you may wish to use a secure account) or attached to Livetext.
3. After reviewing the Opening Day Memo from the ELI, request a Listening/Speaking class where you would like to conduct your observation. Dr. Stevens will contact the teacher. If the teacher agrees to the micro-teaching, you may then meet with the teacher. Once arrangements have been made, send Dr. Stevens an email confirming the date, time, and location of the observation. The email should identify the skill area (listening, pronunciation, speaking/fluency, oral grammar, vocabulary or idiomatic expressions) that your lesson will address.
4. Two days prior to the scheduled teaching and observation, please provide your cooperating teacher and any other observer a detailed lesson plan. This plan should include:
5. a. an introduction to the lesson plan in which you specify the area of teaching (planning, instruction,    management, or interpersonal skills) on which you would like the observer(s) to give particular focus;
6. b. the instructional context for the lesson (i.e., how it fits with what has previously been taught and what will subsequently be taught);
7. c. the lesson’s sequenced activities and handouts,
8. d. an explanation of how the activities meet the course learning outcomes;
9. e. a note about any special circumstances about which the observer should be aware;
10. justification of your choice of methods and activities on the basis of sound pedagogy,

the instructional context, and ESL principles or methodology for effective teaching.

(A sample lesson plan has been attached; however, it does not include section (f), which should not exceed additional 2-3 pages.)

6. If equipment is available at your site, please make arrangements for a camera, dvd, and tripod to be set up in your classroom prior to the lesson. If such equipment is unavailable, notify the ELI and your observer can arrange to bring equipment.
7. Upload your microteaching project (lesson plan, reflective self-assessment, handouts) onto YouTube and then post the link on livetext.com, using the templates for microteachings for this course. You may have to break your teaching into either two or three segments, since YouTube has a 10-15 minute limit on video segment lengths. Please do not give me your video in any other format.
8. Once on Livetext, be sure to grant access to Dr. Stevens to review and assess the submission. He is listed on Livetext as sgeli. 8/26/15