A Seminar on Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning

About the instructor:

1. Bachelor in TESOL, National Taiwan Normal University
2. Researcher at English Education Resource Center 
3. In-service English Teacher at Taipei First Girls High School

It is our pleasure to invite Ruth Yeh, an in-service English teacher at Taipei First Girls High School, sharing a number of useful applications related to English teaching and learning with TESOL practitioners in Taichung today. This is a heated issue since online teaching has become an ordinary thing for all teachers all over the world. Therefore, we English teachers need to equip ourselves with the miscellaneous skills on applying technology to English teaching.

    

At the beginning of the speech, Ruth introduced Word Search and Bingo Baker for English teachers to use when we want to have a test or practice on vocabulary as a warm-up. They are quite user-friendly and teachers can generate word puzzles and bingo cards with ease.

    

Also, Ruth mentioned that Google Art and Culture can be  fantastic materials if we English teachers are eager to get to know more about the background knowledge of various topics. Take holocaust for example, we can find a lot of cherished photographs associated with Anne Frank, which are vivid and prized. All of the information could be combined with Google Jamboard  to add colors to our English classroom.

    

Lastly, Google Docs is definitely the most powerful tool for students to cooperate with each other to learn English through co-editing.

*****For more detailed information, please click on the following link: 0618 多才多藝的Google Docs - Google 文件

 Ruth's lecture was quite informative and useful. We hope that we English teachers can put the information into practice. In this way, we can have wonderful English classes.    

111學年度第一學期領域召集人會議暨教師素養導向閱讀教學共備工作坊

111學年度第一學期領域召集人會議暨教師素養導向閱讀教學共備工作坊

曾麗娜老師

講師簡介：

教育部國中英語輔導團中央團團員

新北市新莊國中教師

教育部中央課程與教學輔導諮詢團隊語文學習領域英語組組長暨核心團隊研究教師

國立教育廣播電台英語教學節目製作主持人

教育資料館補救教學影帶（英語電力公司）諮詢委員

師大心測中心標準本位評量基準撰寫及諮詢委員

今天會議的後半部由專輔李國禎老師針對新學期輔導團的行事曆及相關業務工作進行報告。

 111-1國中英語領召會議-專輔報告

Seminar on Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

 

About the Instructor

1. Bachelor in Chemistry, University of Manchester

2. In-service International Teacher at Donshang Senior High school

 

It is our pleasure to invite Ian Garner, the head coordinator of Taichung FET program, talking about CLIL curriculum design today. His presentation is informative and vivid, which is so useful for TESOL practitioners who want to create their own CLIL curriculum. I would like to summarize a few key points in the following section.

First of all, we English teachers should not be confined by textbooks since they are not authentic at all. Try to implement something authentic in the alternative curriculum (彈性課程). In Taiwan, we are so used to teaching the materials in the textbooks, which is easy and time-saving. However, we fail to recognize that English is taken for communication instead of language tests. 

Second of all, try to be good friends with the General Guidelines provided by MOE in order to get to know more about the beliefs and goals of it. General Guidelines are so important when we want to make the lesson plans because they could help us pinpoint what to teach (from the perspective of teachers) and what to learn (from the perspective of students).

Last of all, work with your colleagues to design CLIL curriculum. Also, when encountering some difficulties, refer to the guidelines in inner circle of English would help.

It takes a lot of time to create CLIL curriculum. But if you finish one, you will feel that you become a super teacher in the field of English teaching because you teach not only English but also other subjects.

A Seminar on Incorporating Picture Books into TESOL

 

About the Instructor:

1. Master of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University

2. In-service English teacher at Kaohsiung Municipal Houjing Junior High School

It is our honor to invite Kitty Lee, an expert on English picture book-assisted language teaching, sharing her ideas on how to incorporate into English classroom. 

At the beginning of the the seminar, Kitty read the picture book entitled The Wonder Walkers for us participants. Personally speaking, picture books have the following benefits. Firstly, compared to English novels, the vocabulary and sentence patterns in picture books are relatively fixed. Secondly, picture books help boost social-emotional learning. Also, we TESOL practitioners can integrate social issues into English teaching. Lastly, we English teachers can develop CLIL curriculum with art teachers since the illustrations in picture books are so delicate and beautiful. 

Besides, Kitty mentions the reason for her to promote English picture books is that they help guard  the authenticity of the language. We readers can get to know more about the importance of language use (Pragmatics) in different contexts.

In the process of attending the seminar, I could understand how enthusiastic Kitty feels for picture books. She has read thousands of picture books and has classified these books into different themes. Therefore, we English teachers can save a lot of time scavenging suitable picture books.

If you are interested in Kitty's book recommendations, please click on the following link.

 

2022.04.26 跨域閱讀探索新學習

 

蔡鈺伶老師

講師簡介

新北市英語輔導團專任輔導員

永和國中英語教師

講師PPT：跨域閱讀探索新學習

今天非常高興再次邀請到蔡鈺伶老師與我們分享如何將議題融入實際教學中，並透過實作，讓所有與會的輔導員及老師更加印象深刻。

老師先介紹Readworks這個網站，網站中有許多英語文章，可依照學生程度的不同做篩選，文章的內容會包括Passage、Vocabulary activity、Question set、Ebook等資源，老師可以透過這些資源設計課程。

接下在介紹臺灣測驗中心這個網站，免費提供有關全民英檢、國中會考、學科能力測驗和指定科目考試 等相關英語資訊。

接著老師分享推動英語閱讀教學時，利用Storyjumper這個網站讓學生能動手做故事書，並透過唸故事及錄音後，做成屬於自己的有聲故事書。

最後老師分享自己與地球科學跨域的課程設計及教學活動，透過Canva設計圖卡加深同學的印象，自己排列行星的順序更覺得有趣。

透過今天講師的分享與解說，讓我們對於跨域的教學有更深的了解，有透過活動知道老師如何設計及在課堂上實際操作的經驗，期待下次蔡老師在與我們分享更多的課程與教學經驗。