A2MP_VPx2 Teaching practice 2

Faculty of Education
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Michaela Píšová, M.A., Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Naděžda Vojtková
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students will design and carry out a small-scale action research. This experience aims to develop in students: the ability to analyse the complex classroom teaching experience; strategies and techniques to address the identified problem; the ability to evaluate the effectiveness of the selected interventions.
Syllabus
  • Action research provides an opportunity for individualised and diffentiated reflective practice as a key strategy for professional development. The team work format will develop cooperative skills in students. Final presentation of action research outcomes will enhance students´ communicative / presentation skills and disseminate individual experience amongst the group of trainees.
Literature
  • WAJNRYB, Ruth. Classroom observation tasks : a resource book for language teachers and trainers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, viii, 145. ISBN 0521407222. info
  • NUNAN, David. Research methods in language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xii, 249. ISBN 0521429684. info
  • ELLIOTT, John. Action research for educational change. 1st pub. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1991, x, 163. ISBN 0335096905. info
Teaching methods
Observations, planning and designing the lessons, teaching practice and carrying action research on a chosen problem, report.
Assessment methods
Students will work in groups to design and carry out action research. Practicing and non-practicing student teachers will mix in groups working on the task as a team. In the end of the research they will submit a report.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1889
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Spring 2013.
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