A2MK_VPx2 Teaching practice 2

Faculty of Education
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
0/0/1. 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
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
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
  • 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
teaching practice
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 (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: praxe.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2012, recent)
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