EDU 8865EED
EDU 8865EED |
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Professional Skills: Teaching English Language in Secondary Schools (Practicum) |
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Course Coordinator:
Joy Wong Yu, BA (HKSYU); PDGE (EdUHK); MSocSc (HKU); HKPCA Certified Counsellor
Course Developer:
Janet Au Yeung Yau-wai
This course is one of the compulsory courses in the following programmes:
Entry requirement
To enrol on this course, students must meet the entry requirements of the following programmes:
Students in the BENGHPDES programme who intend to enrol on this course should have completed all the required 1000- and 2000-level courses.
Special requirement for pre-service student teachers
Students in the BENGHPDES programme are required to complete six weeks of teaching practice in a local secondary school. During this period, students will work in the assigned schools, without payment, as full-time student teachers.
Advisory recommendation
Students taking this course should enrol on EDU 8363EED at the same time as, or prior to, enroling on this course.
Aims
This course provides students with a sound foundation in planning, organising and implementing learning activities for teaching English in Hong Kong schools. It also helps students develop language strategies to improve both proficiency and skills in English. By means of practicum, students will participate in and complete their teaching practice as field experience, and be assessed on their classroom teaching performance. Support and supervision will be facilitated to guide students in their teaching practice. The course aims to develop:
Contents
Learning support
There are 12 two-hour tutorials and two three-hour sessions of day schools (for preparing practicum), which add up to 30 contact hours.
Assessment
There are three assignments, with the first two leading to the final assignment which is a teaching portfolio. The assignments account for 40% of the overall course score.
The relative weightings of the three assignments are as follows:
Assignment 1 25%
Assignment 2 25%
Assignment 3 50%
Therefore, the three assignments are worth 10%, 10% and 20% of the course score respectively.
The weighting of the assessed teaching practice is 60% of the course score.
To complete the course successfully, students must:
“Professional conduct and behaviour” will be graded as “Performance Satisfactory” or “Performance Unsatisfactory”. Students who are assessed as “Performance Unsatisfactory” will fail the teaching practice and the whole course. In addition, these students will not be allowed to take this course again.
There is no examination for this course.
Electronic submission of assignments
Except for some designated assignments, students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).
Online requirement
Support on OLE would be provided. Soft copies of teaching materials would also be uploaded to the OLE.
Set book(s)
There is no set book for this course.
