A total of eighty public junior high schools are
divided into six groups so that teachers from neighboring ones can attend the
workshop. The workshop is held to create an opportunity for English teachers to
exchange teaching ideas and practices. Thus, all the participants can reflect
on their own and gain some novel strategies to incorporate in their class. Those
who are assigned to share their work at the workshop will have to organize
their thoughts and prepare their PowerPoint slides in advance.
The first session of this workshop is for the
Advisory Group to promote important policies and also share some professional
development in terms of English teaching. Therefore, Gloria first introduced some
major events from the timetable of this semester, including all the scheduled workshops,
English competitions, and an introduction to some online resources, etc. Then,
Richard, also a member of the Group, shared his experience of attending the
TESOL training program subsidized by the Ministry of Education this summer. The
program is composed of two parts, language skills and TESOL methodology, hoping
that the participants can enhance their language skills and teaching
effectiveness as well with this English immersion program in Australia.
The second session is for five teachers form
different schools to share their innovative teaching strategies. First, a very
vivid ppt designed to teach relative clauses was demonstrated. The whole
interactive slides are so intriguing because they’re filled with cute pictures
and clear illustrations. Second, another teacher shared their experience of
holding a spelling bee contest, providing detailed procedures and students’ positive
feedback. Next, several useful online resources were recommended with a group
work of many teachers, such as Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab, Learn English
Teens, Tumblebooks and so on, and they all have animated games or drills to
arouse learners’ interest of learning. For more information of other teachers’
presentations, please click on the link above and see the original files if you
wish.
The last session is for all the participants to
give some constructive feedback or reflection based on all the presentations
today. Thus, teachers should pay attention during the workshop and also think
about what they have learned from those presenters. After all, the whole idea
of this workshop is to bolster teachers’ professional development and
eventually benefit our students.
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