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TISSx: 2020_E04_EN_003 E-04: Designing Learning Experiences for the English Classroom - June 2020

E-04: Designing Learning Experiences for the English Classroom - June 2020


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E-04: Designing Learning Experiences for the English Classroom

Introduction

Planning is a very important skill for teachers. A carefully created plan for students can do wonders in the classroom and provide effective learning opportunities for students. Planning lessons and units beforehand gives helps teachers become more organised and confident when they enter the classroom. Given the importance of planning, this course focuses on designing learning experiences, lesson plans and assessment activities for students in an English Language classroom. Apart from discussing the basic principles of planning, you will also explore the importance of different language skills and plan activities according to these language skills. The course will introduce best practices, strategies and resources that you can use in your English classroom. You will be able to reflect on your classroom experiences through authentic examples, readings, case studies and thoughtful assignments. The various resources and strategies used in this course can be adapted in any language classroom as well. This course is relevant for English language educators but also beneficial for teachers who teach in English medium and wish sharpen their skills of designing activities, assessments and plans.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you will be able to
  • Design activities and lesson plans for English language classroom.
  • Design lesson assessment activities in alignment with the planned objectives and teaching-learning activity.
  • Critically reflect upon lesson plan implementation and understand its further implications on planning

Unit Names

  • Unit 1: Designing Activities for a Language Skill Classroom
  • Unit 2: Planning and Designing Language Lessons
  • Unit 3:Designing Lesson Assessment Activities

Requirements

The learner must have
  • Completed graduation.
  • Access to teach 5-10 students
  • Computer/laptop/mobile device with internet access.

Course Staff

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Surbhi Nagpal

Senior Research Associate, Centre for Education, Innovation & Action Research, TISS

As a Research Associate at CLIx, I work with the English Team and am involved in course development and research related activities. Prior to CLIx, I have worked as a teacher trainer at InOpen Technologies, an organisation working in computer education. I also worked as a primary teacher for two years. Currently, I am pursuing my PhD in Education from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS).

EMail: surbhinagpal90@clixindia.org

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Anusha Ramanathan

Consultant, Centre for Education, Innovation & Action Research, TISS

I have taught for more than a decade at undergraduate and the postgraduate levels across various domains including English and Mass Media and Business Studies. I also wear the caps of course coordinator, examiner, teacher trainer, corporate trainer, researcher, editor, content developer, syllabus designer and reviewer at different times in various institutions. I am the TPD-Implementation coordinator and a core part of the TPD English team at TISS.

Email: anusha.ramanathan@tiss.edu

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Nishevita Jayendran

Assistant Professor, Centre for Education, Innovation & Action Research, TISS

I have served as Visiting Faculty in the English department at Stella Maris College, Chennai and at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. A doctoral graduate in Literature from IIT Bombay, I have nearly six years’ experience in teaching English language and literature to students of engineering, arts and the sciences. I enjoy researching in art and aesthetic theories, the postmodernist historical novel, culture and representation studies and humanities education. In CEIAR, I have been a part of the design and development of the CLIx student modules. I also research language teaching and learning practices and student autonomy in the CLIx project.

Dr. Malathy Krishnan

External Course Advisory

Retd.HoD,English Language Teaching & Distance Education and Retd. Dean, Research, EFLU

Frequently Asked Questions

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You can access the course via TISSx app on your smartphone. You can install the app from Playstore.

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Write in to rtict@clixindia.org

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  1. Course Number

    2020_E04_EN_003

  2. Classes Start

    15 June 2020

  3. Classes End

  4. Estimated Effort

    5 hours per week

  5. Price

    ₹1800