Course Content
English for Academic Teaching Purposes
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Table of Contents
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WEEK 1: GOAL-SETTING
February 15, 2007
- Needs Assessment
- Course objectives and language learning goal-setting
- Assignments, PLADs, Audiojournals, and other fun!
- What is teaching?
- homework for 2/19: Reflective audiojournal test and Reading #1: Changing university teaching
WEEK 2: TEACHING & LEARNING
February 19, 2007
- Business: Setting up DOD, PLADs, and Audiojournals
- Defining teaching
- Reading 1: Changing university teaching at UT
- Chocolate chip cookie rubrics from TeacherVision.com
- Evaluating best practices: Creating our own rubric for jigsaw event
February 22, 2007
- Listening exercise: Students' views of intelligence can help grades (NPR Morning Edition, 2/15/07)
- Rubrics for jigsaw
- PLAD 1: Good teaching (to be continued on 2/26/07)
- Audiojournal Entry 1
WEEK 3: TERRIFIC & INVIGORATING RUBRICS
February 26, 2007
- Word work: DOD Entry 1
- Rubric for Terrific Teaching Activities
- Jigsaw: Invigorating teaching activities 1-5
- PLAD 2: The multicultural classroom
March 1, 2007
- Good teaching (PLAD 1 continued from 2/22/07) and conceptual maps
- Pronunciation/Speaking focus: Listening to conversational patterns from the University of Michigan and MICASE (The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English).
WEEK 4: METAPHORS, REFLECTIONS, AND LECTURES
March 5, 2007
- Word work: DOD Entry 2
- Group A: Multicultural Teaching PLAD
- Group B: Reflective Practice PLAD
- Reflective Practice
- Dimensions of reflective teaching (Zeichner and Liston)
- Freeman's model of teaching
- The Johari Window and becoming aware (Luft and Ingram)
- Reflective practice game: Snooping Around
March 7, 2007
- Jigsaw: Invigorating teaching activities 6-12
- Metaphors and idioms used in Academic Spoken language
- Warm-up: The Road Less Traveled by George Strait and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
- MICASE data: Idioms set I
- Why lecture?
- Reflective Audiojournal Entry 2
WEEK 5: THE SKILLS OF LECTURING
March 12, 2007
- PLAD: The Skills of Lecturing
- Word work: DOD Entry 3
- MICASE data: Idioms in academic speech
March 15, 2007
- Grammar bites: Say and tell
- Linguistic scavenger hunt from home reading "The skills of lecturing"
WEEK 6: INTERACTIVE LECTURES
March 20, 2007
- DOD story telling: DOD Entries 1-4
- Listening: How multitasking affects human learning from NPR
- Academic Spoken English Formulas I
March 22, 2007
- Academic Spoken English Formulas II
- Invigorating Lectures Jigsaw, Part III
- PLAD: Lecturing for Learning
WEEK 7: EVALUATING AND OBSERVING PRACTICE
March 26, 2007
- DOD 5: Memory and review practice
- Mid-term evaluations
- PLAD 7: Evaluating Lecturing
March 29, 2007
- Academic Speech II
- Invigorating lectures jigsaw: Evaluating lecture activities
- PLAD 8: Observation of Teaching
- Observation practice: Reach! Teach! by Prangstgrup
- Lecture Observation Assignment
- Discerning the difference between observations, inferences, and opinions
- Announcements:
- No class April 5 before Easter
- Movie night: April 4, 6:00 p.m.: Dead Poet's Society
- Reflective Journal 3
WEEK 8: HANDOUTS & MOVIES
April 2, 2007
- PLAD 9: Handouts
- Guest Speaker! What are good layout and design practices?
April 4, 2007
6:00 - 8:00 p.m., location TBA
- Movie night: Dead Poet's Society
- Snacks to share encouraged
WEEK 9: ACADEMIC SPOKEN PATTERNS, IDIOMS, & COFFEE!
April 10, 2007
- Busness: Updated Course Outline
- DOD word work
- Academic Spoken Patterns II: Listening
- Idioms in Academic Speech Part II
- Easter and Spring Poetry: Haiku
April 12, 2007
- Coffee culture
- Morning coffee quiz by Megan Aemmer
- NPR Listening: Coffee: A little really does go a long way
- Are you a coffee addict? Take the Coffee Addict's Quiz from about.com
- Invigorating lectures jigsaw: Structuring lectures
WEEK 10: DISCUSSION BONANZA
April 16, 2007
April 19, 2007
- NO CLASS
WEEK 11: NO CLASS
WEEK 12: STUDENT LEARNING & OBSERVATIONS
April 30, 2007
- NO CLASS
May 3, 2007
- Announcements: May 7 Panel discussion 17:00 - 19:00 Main building, room 135
- Learning stations
- Observation debrief
- Panel discussion question brainstorm
- Discovering resources for continuing language study
- MICASE Text analysis: Talking about texts
- PLAD 12
WEEK 13: OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING & LEARNING
May 7, 2007
- Panel discussion 17:00 - 19:00 Main building, room 135
May 10, 2007
- Course post-test: TOEFL Practice Exam
WEEK 14: FINAL CLASS WRAP-UP
May 13, 2007
- Exam results and review
- DOD review
- English is tough stuff from The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité (if interested, you can test yourself and listen to the poem at Stateside Sounds)
- Everything by Michael Bublé
- 58th street bridge song by Simon & Garfunkel
CELEBRATION
June 11, 2007
7:15 p.m.
Location: Tanja's garden at Enelase 17
Activities and food TBA
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