Writing the year syllabus for English is a necessity that all teachers need to do if we want to make sure our students reach a certain level of communicative competency. In this online training course, we will analyse the curriculum for English and we will deep into the world of competency-based methodologies (PBL, gamification, flipped classroom, etc) and competency-based assessment, always incorporating ICT in a cross-curricular way. Participants will plan a year syllabus according to the competency-based curriculum.
Objectives:
Analyse the curriculum and other documents to reflect on the implications on learning competences.
Analyse educational materials and resources that foster reflection on competency-based approach to learning.
Assess different learning and teaching approaches in order to check whether they favour competence-based learning.
Design and implement instruments to assess for and of learning.
Plan a year syllabus following the essential elements in the curriculum.
Contents:
Understanding the EFL curriculum
Competency-based language teaching.
Elements in the competency-based curriculum.
Cross-curricular competences
Competency-based assessment in EFL
Competency-based assessment
Assessment for, as, & of learning. Feedback
Assessment instruments
Competence-based methodologies in EFL
Competency-based tasks and units
Gamification, Flipped Classroom, Cooperative Learning, PBL
ICT Resources
Designing the EFL Syllabus
Planning the year syllabus
Universal Design for Learning
Syllabus Design
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
You can enrol for the course “English Syllabus Design. Who Dares?” in two different formats:
a) Online mode: four 2-hour-and-a-half synchronous sessions plus 20-hour asynchronous work.
b) Blended mode: four 2-hour-and-a-half face-to-face sessions plus 20-hour asynchronous work.