Professional Practices for English Language Teaching - British Council This free online course is for English language teachers around the world. It will help you develop the skills and practices you need for your continuing professional development (CPD). This course is part of our Teaching for Success: Practices for English Language Teaching program. In the program we will look at the 12 professional practices for CPD on the British Council’s teacher development framework. In this course you will look at four professional practices: Planning lessons and courses Managing resources Managing the lesson Taking responsibility for professional development. Learn with English language teachers worldwide Each week will focus on one of these practices. Video tutors, Suzanne and Claire, will guide you through each week’s content, offering tips, advice and downloadable resources at every stage. You will be asked to share your own experiences and opinions as you become part of a global community of English language teachers discussing what leads to success.
The Science of Learning <p>Unable to play video. Please enable JavaScript or consider upgrading your browser.</p> Captions Settings Dialog Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 0:01Skip to 0 minutes and 1 secondWhat is learning? 0:47Skip to 0 minutes and 47 secondsYou'll be discovering how different regions of the brain become involved in learning, and what this means for the types of decision you make as a teacher, for optimizing your students' learning. 1:19Skip to 1 minute and 19 secondsAnd myself, as a professional, now being able to have that dialogue with the students in front of me, and involving them with it, I've just seen them start to flourish and change. 1:56Skip to 1 minute and 56 secondsIt makes me want to challenge, and move on, and establish myself further as a teacher.
Teaching English – British Council Learning to Teach Online - UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales) About the Course Are you an educator? Have you ever wanted to understand more about how to design your course to make better use of educational technology – whether fully online or in blended contexts? Would you like to learn from those who have extensive practical experience with online technologies? This course is designed to help you develop a working understanding of successful online teaching strategies that you can apply in your own practice. Integrating online technologies into your teaching can be a challenging prospect, and it can be difficult to know how to approach it effectively for the benefit of both students and yourself. Watch interviews with the Course Instructors Simon McIntyre and Negin Mirriahi discussing the motivations behind the course. Announcement for US based teachers: To participate in this opportunity, U.S. district leaders should approve Coursera MOOCs as teacher professional development by completing a brief form at: www.coursera.org/tpd. Course Syllabus
Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Traditional views of education have shifted. Teachers now do far more facilitation of learning as opposed to simply seeing their role as transferring knowledge. We’re now seeing student focused and learner centred approaches being the norm - approaches that change the roles and responsibilities of teachers and learners. Learn about the basic principles of teaching and learning in higher education In this course you will be introduced to well-known educational perspectives on how students approach learning. This course looks at questions like: How do students approach learning? Explore the roles of the teacher and student approaches to learning The changing role of teachers in higher education often requires more of a facilitative approach to teaching while students are encouraged to take on more responsibility for their learning. Explore teaching and assessing in different contexts Online and face-to-face interaction, collaboration and application in context is key to learning.
Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling - University of Houston System | Coursera About the Course Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Digital Storytelling introduces educators to digital storytelling and explores ways to use digital stories to enhance students’ learning experience. The course is designed to be comprehensive yet fundamental. Course Syllabus Over the course of eight weeks, we will cover the following topics: Topic 1: Choosing a topic and purpose Topic 1 introduces you to the basics of digital storytelling. Topic 2: Writing an effective script and creating a storyboard Topic 2 focuses on scriptwriting as you learn the steps in developing and writing a script for a digital story. Topic 3: Recording audio narration In topic 3, you will learn to record audio narration using digital devices so that your voice can be added to the digital story you will create. Recommended Background The course is primarily intended for: Suggested Readings Many readings will come from the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website, at Digital Storytelling Articles.
TESOL Strategies 0:02Skip to 0 minutes and 2 seconds CATHERINE DOHERTY: The 21st century has seen a lot of change and mobility. So even if you stay in the same place, things might be changing around you. 0:10Skip to 0 minutes and 10 seconds SALLY ZACHARIAS: For teachers, the most obvious change may be the new types of students in your classrooms– students with unfamiliar names and different accents who are learning the language at the same time they’re learning the curriculum content. How can you support these students’ language learning in your classroom? 0:29Skip to 0 minutes and 29 seconds CATHERINE DOHERTY: Hi. 0:31Skip to 0 minutes and 31 seconds SALLY ZACHARIAS: I’m Sally Zacharias. 0:38Skip to 0 minutes and 38 seconds CATHERINE DOHERTY: This is not a course for language specialists. 0:50Skip to 0 minutes and 50 seconds SALLY ZACHARIAS: We start by stretching the definition of language. 1:28Skip to 1 minute and 28 seconds SALLY ZACHARIAS: Every teacher is a language teacher to some degree.
Implementation and Evaluation of Educational Technology This is an Archived Course EdX keeps courses open for enrollment after they end to allow learners to explore content and continue learning. All features and materials may not be all available. Check back often to see when new course start dates are announced. This course provides a practical overview for selecting, implementing, and evaluating educational technology initiatives. Schools are recognizing the potential for technology to transform teaching and learning. This course provides a practical overview for selecting, integrating, implementing, and evaluating educational technology initiatives in formal educational settings, primarily in the US. Through four units over seven weeks, participants will develop an awareness and understanding of the “ecosystem” surrounding the implementation of educational technology in a formal educational setting.
How to Survive Your PhD Course Syllabus Skip Syllabus DescriptionWeek one: Setting the scene Prior research on research student success and failure shows that there are a range of common factors at play. We examine these factors and start to look at the causes.Week Two: A quick history of the doctorate To better understand how and research degree study can be so difficult we will take a brief tour back to the late middle ages and the birth of the university - as a place and an idea.Week Three: Confidence We take a look at confidence, in particular why some students have very little. We’ll explore the imposter syndrome and how we might counter it and then have a look at the risks of over confidence.Week Four: Frustration This week we look at frustration.
Understanding Classroom Interaction Course Syllabus Skip Syllabus DescriptionWeek One: Introduction to classroom interaction (What is it and why do it?) Introduction to previous classic research and reasons for studying classroom interaction. Introduction to basic terminology of the field and brief examples of how this terminology can be used to focus our observation of classroom talk. Week Two: Turn-taking patterns and question types Introduction to typical turn-taking patterns, the different types of questions teachers and students ask and the consequences for student engagement and learning.