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Professional Readings: Course Design

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• 30 Years of TEFL/TESL: A Personal Reflection

  2002 article from Jack Richards.

• Characteristics of Culturally Relevant Classrooms

  A summary from NCREL.

• Criteria for Evaluating Multicultural Materials

  A summary from NCREL.

• SIOP: Making Content Comprehensible for ELLs

  The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) models the steps in lesson planning that make content material comprehensible to English language learners. Summary of work by Echevarria, Vogt and Short on EverythingESL.

• Aspects of Task-Based Syllabus Design

  David Nunan discusses some of the elements that a syllabus designer needs to take into consideration.

• Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

  Bloom's Taxonomy is a useful way to plan units of work that incorporate high level thinking skills. This site includes: a colour poster introducing the revised taxonomy, a planning framework to design learning activities that foster all levels of thinking and Investigate a Book the Blooming-Smarts Way, a matrix for a reading programme.

• Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks

  Canadian standards that describes a learner’s ability to communicate in English through speaking, listening, reading and writing.

• Content Based ESL Curriculum and Academic Language Proficiency

  2004 article from The Internet TESL Journal.

• CREDE - Program Alternatives for Linguistically Diverse Students

  This report is intended as a guide for decision makers in schools. Edited by Genesee (PDF).

• The Curriculum and English as an Additional Language: Introductory Training for School Support Staff

  A programme that trains support staff enabling them to assist students' language learning skill (British Department for Education and Skills).

• Curriculum Mapping: Virtual Workshop

  Collect and analyse data on what is being taught, to inform overall planning (Education World).

• EDNA: Education Australia Network

  This is a huge repository of material that can be reproduced for education purposes at no cost or © infringement. Easily searched via a number of different search tools.

• Educational Inequality: Mapping Race, Class and Gender: A Synthesis of Research Evidence

  The report investigates the relative significance of race and ethnicity so as to clarify an agenda for educational equality of opportunity (British Department for Education and Skills).

• ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students

  Draft ESL standards from TESOL, the international body that TESOLANZ is affiliated to. TESOL's standards were drafted as a starting point for developing effective and equitable education for ESOL students.

• The ESL Standards: Bridging the Academic Gap for English Language Learners

  Deborah Short’s article has relevance for the New Zealand context with the current Curriculum Project. Have the language learning needs of ESOL students in mainstream programmes been written into the new curriculum documents?

• Establishing an Effective Newcomer Program

  Short and Boyson’s 2003 article offers guidance on developing a program for new arrivals (CAL).

• An Evaluation of the Use and Integration of Readymade Commercial Literacy Packages into Classroom Programmes

  This report from the Ministry of Education identifies effective teacher practice for adapting commercial materials to meet student learning needs.

• A Holistic Approach to Task-Based Course Design

  Jane Willis outlines three basic principles relating to language learning, then describes and illustrates a holistic process of course and materials design which takes these principles into account.

• Integrating EAL Learners into the Mainstream Curriculum

  Constant Leung discusses the trends in integrating English language learners into the mainstream curriculum.

• Program Factors in Effective Foreign and Second Language Teaching

  From Jack Richards.

• Reformulation and Reconstruction: Tasks that Promote 'Noticing'

  Scott Thornbury describes ways he has used reformulation and reconstruction tasks in his classroom to help students notice language forms.

• Self-perception and Practice in Teaching Grammar

  2001 article by Borg on how teacher practice is affected by what they know about language. Clear recommendations for teacher educators.

• SOLO Taxonomy

  This taxonomy developed by Biggs and Collis describes how a student's performance can grow in complexity while mastering a task. There are five stages, and the framework is claimed to be applicable to any subject area.

• Which Syllabus: The Traditional and the Holistic Syllabus

  A short discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of holistic and traditional course design (BBC World Service).