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FROM THE DRAWING BOARD TO WORKSHEET DESIGN: CREATING A COURSE
ELTAF Workshop 22nd June 2013 Claire Hart
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ABOUT ME
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WORKSHOP STRUCTURE1) Approaches to course design a. Some key terms b. Three recipes for course design - case studies
2) Top ten tips for designing worksheets
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LET´S LOOK AT SOME KEY TERMS…
What is:
A coursePersonalisationTailor-made A negotiated syllabusCourse design
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Design
Leaners´needs
Stakeholders´expectations
What´s possible
A course
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THREE RECIPES FOR COURSE DESIGNTopic-driven Communication situation analysisJIT (Just In Time)
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1. THE TOPIC-DRIVEN APPROACH 1.Topic options
2.Choose 5 or 6 topics
3.What vocab? grammar?
4.4 skills work
5.Business skills
Spend 4- 5 weeks on each topic
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MIXING AND MATCHING Context: In-company Industry: Construction Timeframe: 38 weeks Participants: 8 Level: mixed from high A2 to B2 Jobs: salesman, quality engineer, civil engineer, architect
Needs: -> Broaden knowledge of industry-specific vocabulary-> Improve accuracy-> Work on business skills, especially telephoning and emailing
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WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOPIC?
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PLANWeek 1: Starting a conversationWeek 2: Tenses review -> present simple, continuous & perfect, past simple
Week 3: Have you ever? Week 4: Technology landmarksWeek 5: Showing interest
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Skills
Speaking Starting a conversation Discussing experiencesShowing interest
Writing Making notes
Reading Reading model conversations
Listening Active listening
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Grammar Vocab
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENEDWe spent 7 weeks on this topicIn particular we spent a lot of time working on tenses
I realised we needed to focus more on conversation strategies and techniques
The learners enjoyed working on this topic
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DESIGNING WORKSHEETS
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WORKSHEETS?
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MY TOP 10 TIPS
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NUMBER 10
Be consistent
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NUMBER 9
Use boxes and tables
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NUMBER 8
Use tabs, bullets and numbering
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NUMBER 7
Leave space for the learners
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IS THIS ENOUGH SPACE? 1 Concrete is used to ______build walls______.
2 Copper is used to _________________________ .
3 Steel is used to _________________________ .
4 Fibreglass is used to _________________________ .
5 Carbon is used to _________________________ .
6 PVC is used to _________________________ .
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IS THIS ENOUGH SPACE?
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NUMBER 6
Use images
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NUMBER 5
Use a variety of activity types
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Matching pictures with wordsMatching words with meaningsMatching sentence halvesMatching questions and answersOrdering conversationsCategorising wordsTrue or false
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NUMBER 4
Try jumbled phrases
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NUMBER 3
Ask a different question
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What does Karsten want to know?
Why?Consequences?
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NUMBER 2
Include topics and issues that matter to the
learners
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NUMBER 1The learners should know or be able to do something at the end of the lesson that they didn´t know or couldn´t do at the start of the lesson Michael
Swan