Aim: This task asks you to apply what you have learned in this module to your own online teaching context.

Time: 30 – 45 minutes, approximately

Instructions

When switching from solely face-to-face learning, take your time to incorporate blended learning into your teaching practice. Starting slow not only enables you to assess what is and is not working from a content perspective, but also gives your learners time to adapt gradually to the blended learning concept.

Here we ask you to reflect on what you have learned in this fifth module and how you could apply this to your teaching context. Look at the questions below and make notes on your reflections in your ‘learning diary’.

• Focus on one workbook/coursebook lesson or unit that you normally teach in a F2F classroom. Can you create a blended approach using synchronous and asynchronous activities? Which lesson/unit activities you would do with your learners in the F2F classroom? And which activities you would do online, either synchronously in a live WhatsApp lesson or video conferencing session, or asynchronously, with learners working at home independently or in small collaborative online groups?

• How do you track your learners’ progress in your F2F classroom? How can you design or redesign activities so that learners play more of a part in tracking their own progress and that of their peers?

• How much contact do you have with parents/guardians? How can this contact be improved and by what means of communication?