Post-residential assignment

What are the assignments?

Following the face-to-face residentials, teachers are required to develop, implement and evaluate four task-based language teaching lesson plans. Teachers submit the lesson plans to a teacher trainer prior to using them in classroom. The teacher trainer will provide feedback on the lesson plan before you teach it.

When are assignments due?

Teachers must submit four lesson plans within the course timeline. Each lesson plan must be received no less than three days prior to the intended date the teacher will use it.

Why do the assignments focus on task-based language teaching?

Putting together a lesson plan following the traditional Present-Practice-Perform (PPP) methodology is fairly straightforward. Teachers need to provide learners with opportunities to focus on completing something as opposed to focusing only on language production. For this reason, our course prepares teachers to offer a more balanced classroom. Teachers can incorporate PPP and task-based language teaching into their classrooms. This ensures that more learning preferences and strategies are being tended to in the second language classroom.

When I first started teaching, I was doing more of a lecture style. I was talking way more than the students. They were sleeping, doodling- general non-interest. But now that I started using task-based in the classroom, students never sleep. They are always participating. Everyone is much happier in the classroom now.  - Jordaan Allison (Feb. 2010)