Look back over your whole Portfolio (Modules 0-10), we ask you to take some time now to stop and consider your learning throughout TETE course. Please use the following process to engage your thinking:
Prepare - Look back on the content of Modules 0-10. Review the content of each module and read the reflections you wrote in each module.
Think - Reflect upon your own learning across these modules - where you were at the beginning of the course, what you were more comfortable with at the mid-point, and how you feel about communicative language teaching and learning now. Think about 1) how all the modules have called you to activate your knowledge for your learners (connecting Modules 0-5 that focused particularly on teachers and Modules 6-10 that focused more on learner engagement), 2) what new knowledge has been the most meaningful to you, particularly with regard to activating and creating communicative language tasks and approaches that actually engage your learners, and 3) think about how you and your teaching practice may have been refined.
Write - Choose 2-3 topics from the TETE Course that were the most eye-opening to you. Now, using our three modes of reflection (that you used in the Mid-point reflection) please respond to the three following areas:
Describe (Technical Mode) - provide a brief listing or description of what stood out for you in those topics
Connect (Contextual Mode) - in what ways does what you have described/listed above connect to readings, new research, new practices
Make Deeper Connections and Consider Impact (Dialectical Mode) - this is the mode where you add to/expand upon the Connections section and consider the impact of your learning. You might use some of the following questions to help you as you reflect: Why is your new learning or are these new topics/practices important? What changes or impact are you looking for as you try out some of the new tasks, approaches, or strategies in those topics? Why is this change or impact important for your context? How do you plan to work toward implementing these new practices after the program?
Create a Final Summative Reflection page in your portfolio, double click anywhere on the page, choose T to add text, and post your reflection on the page.