Professional Skills: Teaching English Language in Secondary Schools (Practicum)

EDU 8865EED

Course Guide

EDU 8865EED

Course Guide

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:

English strand of the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Secondary)
Bachelor of Language Studies (English) (Honours) and Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Secondary)

Entry requirement

To enrol on this course, students must meet the entry requirements of the following programmes:

Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) programme (PGDESEC)
Bachelor of Language Studies (English) (Honours) and Postgraduate Diploma in Education (Secondary) programme (BENGHPDES)

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:

critical understanding of the educational context of Hong Kong;
basic competence in teaching English in secondary schools;
the ability to critically evaluate and apply various approaches and strategies in the teaching and assessment of English;
awareness of language issues in the classroom; and
the ability to reflect on current classroom practice for more effective English teaching.

Contents

The educational context of Hong Kong
The English Language curriculum in Hong Kong
Skills in teaching English
Planning to teach
Resources for teaching
English Language assessment
Classroom management
Evaluation of teaching
Language learning skills for teachers
Language in the classroom

Learning support

There are 8 two-hour tutorials and two three-hour sessions of day schools (for preparing practicum), which add up to 22 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:

achieve an overall pass in Assignments 1 to 3;
achieve an overall pass on teaching practice; and
be assessed as “Performance Satisfactory” on “professional conduct and behaviour”.

“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.