Dear all,
I hope this message finds you all warm and well. Please see below for the announcement for our next English roundtable webchat:
Reflective Language Teaching
“Good teachers are always learning: learning from students, learning from their own trial and error, learning from peers and colleagues, learning from mentors and supervisors, and learning from academic information in their field. Good teachers continue to learn throughout their careers. This is called “life-long” or “ongoing professional development.” One tool that can help teachers develop professionally is known as “reflective teaching practice.”
Reflective teaching means thinking about what happens in the classroom, both in terms of the teaching itself, and in terms of the learner response, and then, trying to improve it. We can ask ourselves:
· Were the goals of the session met? Why or why not?
· What worked well? What didn’t?
· Did learners act as expected? Why or why not?
· How can class sessions be improved to provide opportunities for better learning? “
--quote from Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World: p 144
We have appreciated your active participation in our past webchats, and we are looking forward to more discussions with you on Tuesday December 8th on the topic of Reflective Language Teaching. Please feel free to pass this around to your colleagues and friends. Thank you.
Time: 4:00 pm Beijing time (8 am GMT +8) Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Venue: https://statedept.connectsolutions.com/englishroundtable
Looking forward to talking to you soon!
