In this course, participants will share their strategies, tools, and resources to develop and assess the EFL competence of students in Primary, Secondary and EOI contexts. The importance of boosting skill practice through formative assessment will be discussed. All activities will be carried out on a wiki and the communication language will be English.
Course Structure:
In the course there are four modules, where we will work collaboratively, and two final individual tasks.
MODULES
In the modules, we will focus first on sharing activities and strategies to deal with the skills that are needed in EFL learning. These will include:
The traditional 4 skills (Listening, reading, speaking and writing)
Integrated skill practice (Complex tasks)
Learning to learn strategies
Multicultural awareness
Our main discussion will be centered on how assessment can enhance learning.
The final individual tasks will serve as an individual reflexion for participants to go beyond their current practices.
FINAL INDIVIDUAL TASKS
In the end, we will share our assessment programmes and our own reflection about what participants would change in their learning practices in the light of what has been discussed.
Course Requirements:
The course is open to Primary, Secondary, EOI and CLIL teachers. To participate in this online Wiki course, you will need:
A computer with wide band Internet connection
A browser (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome...)
A certain experience as Internet user, word processing, email and using files and directories
Course Objectives:
On completion of this course, participant will have shared:
The different ways we teach and assess the 4 skills in our classes.
Complex tasks that promote skill integration and how we assess them.
Strategies to develop and assess multicultural awareness.
Reflexion and dialogue with and between our pupils.
Reflexion on the participants' own practice.
Ideas to improve meaningfulness, motivation and better results in student's performance
Useful resources and ICT tools.
Content:
Module 0: Getting to know each other and learning how to use the wiki
Module 1: Assessing the 4 skills in EFL learning
Module 2: Assessing tasks that integrate more than one skill in EFL
Module 3: Assessing the Learning to Learn competence
Module 4: Assessing Multicultural Awareness
Final Task 1: Formative Assessment Framework
Final Task 2: Final Reflection
Methodology:
We will mainly use sharing and discussion of participants practice. We will create a repository of good practices and reflect on how assessment can be improved to guarantee success and motivation in learners. Participants will add their contributions on the wiki, and make suggestions to each other.
We will also discuss how assessment can help students improve their capacity to learn through reflexion. Last but not least, enhancing multicultural awareness will be addressed.
In the end, participants will reorganize all the contributions collaboratively, according to a suggested assessment framework. They will also make an individual reflection on how their practices can be improved, according to what they have learned during the course.
Work Plan
Module
Dates
Hours
Module 0
28 June – 1 July
7 hours
Module 1
2nd July – 9 July
16 hours
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Final Tasks
10 July - 14 July
7 hours
Course evaluation
We will mainly use sharing and discussion of participants practice. We will create a repository of good practices and reflect on how assessment can be improved to guarantee success and motivation in learners. Participants will add their contributions on the wiki, and make suggestions to each other.
We will also discuss how assessment can help students improve their capacity to learn through reflexion. Last but not least, enhancing multicultural awareness will be addressed.
In the end, participants will reorganize all the contributions collaboratively, according to a suggested assessment framework. They will also make an individual reflection on how their practices can be improved, according to what they have learned during the course.
Accreditation:
For accreditation, one contributions to each of the 7 Forums is asked. There is one forum per module except for Module 1, where there are four. Six contributions and six comments to classmates will be considered enough as participants must complete 80% of the proposed activities to pass the course. More will of course be welcomed
Participations must be detailed. It is important that participants share, in the forums:
What they do
Examples of student's performance, if possible
Useful procedures, resources and ICT tools.
Assessment strategies
Any tips that they consider relevant
The two final tasks are compulsory and must be based on the participant's school practice, whenever possible.
Formative assessment and Key Competences
Course Description:
In this course, participants will share their strategies, tools, and resources to develop and assess the EFL competence of students in Primary, Secondary and EOI contexts. The importance of boosting skill practice through formative assessment will be discussed. All activities will be carried out on a wiki and the communication language will be English.
Course Structure:
In the course there are four modules, where we will work collaboratively, and two final individual tasks.
FINAL INDIVIDUAL TASKS
Course Requirements:
The course is open to Primary, Secondary, EOI and CLIL teachers. To participate in this online Wiki course, you will need:
Course Objectives:
On completion of this course, participant will have shared:
Content:
Methodology:
We will mainly use sharing and discussion of participants practice. We will create a repository of good practices and reflect on how assessment can be improved to guarantee success and motivation in learners. Participants will add their contributions on the wiki, and make suggestions to each other.
We will also discuss how assessment can help students improve their capacity to learn through reflexion. Last but not least, enhancing multicultural awareness will be addressed.
In the end, participants will reorganize all the contributions collaboratively, according to a suggested assessment framework. They will also make an individual reflection on how their practices can be improved, according to what they have learned during the course.
Work Plan
Course evaluation
We will mainly use sharing and discussion of participants practice. We will create a repository of good practices and reflect on how assessment can be improved to guarantee success and motivation in learners. Participants will add their contributions on the wiki, and make suggestions to each other.
We will also discuss how assessment can help students improve their capacity to learn through reflexion. Last but not least, enhancing multicultural awareness will be addressed.
In the end, participants will reorganize all the contributions collaboratively, according to a suggested assessment framework. They will also make an individual reflection on how their practices can be improved, according to what they have learned during the course.
Accreditation:
For accreditation, one contributions to each of the 7 Forums is asked. There is one forum per module except for Module 1, where there are four. Six contributions and six comments to classmates will be considered enough as participants must complete 80% of the proposed activities to pass the course. More will of course be welcomed
Participations must be detailed. It is important that participants share, in the forums:
- What they do
- Examples of student's performance, if possible
- Useful procedures, resources and ICT tools.
- Assessment strategies
- Any tips that they consider relevant
The two final tasks are compulsory and must be based on the participant's school practice, whenever possible.