Selection of techniques and Best Practices
Schedule: Saturdays from 8 to 11 am Mexican Time
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Welcome everyone to this TEFL course on Best T&L Techniques!
I am really delighted to share this educational path with all of you. Teaching TEFL has been one of the subjects I really value as relevant and significant.
I have been training teachers in TEFL methods and didactic strategies for almost twenty years now. Besides, I have never stopped teaching children and adults since I graduated, back in the '90s. Wow, a long, long time ago.
The thing that I love the most, when training teachers, is the energy and the powerful flow of experiences, knowledge, feelings, emotions, that we all transmit and share wholeheartedly.
In this section, you will find the fundamentals, the purposes, and the objectives of the course you are about to undertake. The fundamentals have to do with the epistemological and methodological stance towards teaching English as a foreign language.
I deeply hope that this course will open up amazing opportunities for developing new skills, capacities, and competencies as teachers to go down your educational path the best way.
FUNDAMENTALS
Teaching English as a Foreign Language, especially, dealing with didactics and curriculum, is certainly not an easy task.
The perspectives we might have as fundamentals are both wide and varied. Nonetheless, in this course, we consider that teaching a foreign language requires a holistic view of methods, approaches, and techniques. The Natural Approach to a language, developed by Krashen and Terrell, back in 1983, is considered the best way to "acquire" content by immersion and lowering our affective filters; setting goals a bit forward, and keeping track of our own weaknesses and lack of knowledge in some areas.
Alongside, this course will systematically unfold through Project-Based Learning or PBL. This methodology is gradually presented, in each of the lessons of a Didactic Sequence or unit, as tasks, so as to come up with a final presentation which includes all of them.
Lessons are framed bearing in mind Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, Perkins' Learning by Understanding, and Bloom's Taxonomy. Backpacking the assets, tips, and bits of these methodologies will surely lead us to safe grounds.
OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVES
Our objectives with this posgrade course are to get master candidates to:
Our objectives with this posgrade course are to get master candidates to:
1- Learn about the many techniques within the most prevalent methods and approaches to ELT&L;
1- Learn about the many techniques within the most prevalent methods and approaches to ELT&L;
2- Inquire deeply into the T&L techniques which are of their major concern or interest;
2- Inquire deeply into the T&L techniques which are of their major concern or interest;
3- Develop activities with the techniques you have chosen;
3- Develop activities with the techniques you have chosen;
4- Design the activities having in mind the four macro-skills of the language and the system of the language.
4- Design the activities having in mind the four macro-skills of the language and the system of the language.
5- Be able to present clearly their activities, providing arguments on its use, methodology, age groups, and the like.
5- Be able to present clearly their activities, providing arguments on its use, methodology, age groups, and the like.
6- Grow as a reflective teacher and professional in the teaching and learning of foreign languages.
6- Grow as a reflective teacher and professional in the teaching and learning of foreign languages.
CONTENTS OF THE UNIT
CONTENTS OF THE UNIT
5- Macro Skills & Systems of the Language
6- Creative and Innvovative Techniques
Temario:
1. Revision of techniques of the Traditional teaching Methods in ELT.
Revisión de técnicas y procedimientos de los Métodos Tradicionales de enseñanza de LE Inglés.
1.1 Grammar Translation Method
1.2 Audio-Lingual Approach y
1.3 Direct Method
1.4 Silent Way
1.5 TPR Total Physical Response
2. Revision of techniques and procedures of the contemporary Methods in ELT.
Revisión de Técnicas y procedimientos de Métodos y Tendencias Contemporáneas
2.1 Communicative Method
2.2 Natural Approach
2.3 Student Centred Method
2.4 Content-based Method
2.5 How to methods. How to teach numbers. How to tell stories.
2.6 Board games and flashcard games
3. New trends in teaching English
Técnicas basadas en problemas y proyectos
3.1 Project-based Learning
3.2 Problem-based Learning
3.3 Task-based Learning
3.4 STEAM Projects
3.5. Dogme Method
3.6 Jazz Chants, poems and songs in ELT.
3.7 Gamification and games in the classroom
4. Techniques of assessment, scaffoldings and error treatment
Técnicas de andamiaje y Tratamiento de error
4.1 Vigotsky and scaffolding
4.2 The error as slips in English Teaching
4.3 Assessment for Learning. Digital techniques
4.4 Feedback y Feedforward.
4.5 E-portfolios with productions: audio files, docs, slides, videos, infographics, etc.
4.6 Emotions and the affective filter in assessment through puppets and masks.
5. The four Macro-skills and the four Systems of the Language
Las macro-habilidades y los Sistemas de la Lengua
5.1. Reading and Listening as receptive skills
5.2 Speaking techniques
5.3 Writing types and the modelling method
5.4 Functions and the communicative competence in ELT
5.5 Grammar and Lexis
5.6 Phonetics in ELT.
6. Creative and innovative techniques in the English lessons
Técnicas Creativas e Innovadoras en las Clases de Inglés
6.1 Creativity as a competence
6.2 ICT in the design of activities. Web pages.
6.3 AI to create activities in ELT
6.4 Creative classes Format face to face and online
6.5 Recycling materials to use in the EFL lessons
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