Workshop Outline

 

 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Warm-up 9:00 – 9:45	Facilitators	Groups 1 & 2	Groups 3 & 4	Groups 5 & 6	Groups 7 & 8
Session 1 10:00 – 12:00	Introduction to sustainable business projects	Developing students' reading skills.	Developing students' writing skills.	Developing students' presentation skills.	Case Study preparation
Session 2 1:00 – 2:45	Project Mukdaharn Case Study	Using realistic reading materials from the Internet	Project report-writing skills.	Developing students' presentation skills.	Case Study Presentations
Session 3 3:15 – 5:00	Critical Thinking Skills	Reading skills practice	Writing skills practice	Case Study preparation	Evaluation and closing
Evening 7:00 – 9:00 *			Simulation Game	Party

*Children Welcome!

 

Introduction to Community-Based Sustainable Business Projects

Monday - Session 1

Main Presenter: Graham Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will be able to identify the need for, and their role in developing community - based projects in Thai education	Mini-lecture defining community based sustainable business project. Gapped pair-work reading based on Thai Ministry of Education's new curriculum directives	Pairs will decide, then report to large group on 3 ways in which the new curriculum has (or will) changed their teaching.
Teachers will explain the differences between traditional teaching and project facilitating	Gapped group-work reading activity highlighting different aspects of traditional teaching and project facilitating	Teachers will compare their finished worksheet with answers provided. They will then judge themselves as either traditional teachers or project facilitators.
Teachers will differentiate between definitions of sustainable development	Jigsaw reading and listening tasks with four views of sustainable development	Groups will draw pictures of environment, economy and sustainable development

 

Project Mukdaharn Case Study

Monday - Session 2

Main Presenter: John Eyles

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will select points they like and points they would change for community-based projects at their school	Video presentation of the 2000 Project Mukdaharn	Teachers decide then report to small groups on 3 things they liked and 3 things they would change at their school.
Teachers will debate the benefits of students learning English in community-based projects versus tradition classroom work.	English teachers from Mukdaharn High School will lead group discussions on 2000 Project Mukdaharn activities	Groups will reach a consensus on debate and defend their position to the large group.

 

Taxonomy of Critical Thinking Skills

Monday - Session 3

Main Presenter: Joan Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will identify the need for and hierarchy of critical thinking skills	Mini lecture outlining the hierarchy of Bloom's taxonomy of critical thinking skills and how they relate to Project Mukdaharn.	Groups will summarize the different thinking skill levels in Thai.

 

Case Study Cards

Monday - Session 3

Main Presenter: Joan Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will identify project partners in their community.	Using template cards, groups decide a project partner and list as much information as possible.	Finished cards.

 

Developing Students' Reading Skills

Tuesday - Session 1

Main Presenter: Joan Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will be able to understand the necessity for literacy.	Story reading activity "The Man Who Could Not Read"	Teachers will answer comprehension questions.
Teachers will be able to comprehend the three overall techniques for teaching language.	Brainstorm ways the three techniques for acquiring language can be taught.	Groups report back on techniques for teaching language.
Teachers will be able to identify methods to determine difficulty of reading materials	Mini-lecture presentation on determining difficulty of reading materials.	Demonstration in session 2.
Teachers will be able to match teaching techniques with materials of varying levels of reading difficulty.	Mini-lecture and demonstration using a variety of teaching techniques.	Demonstration in session 2.

 

Using realistic Reading Materials From the Internet

Tuesday - Session 2

Main Presenter: Graham Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will distinguish between reliable and unreliable Internet sources	Reading stations with materials from three reliable and three unreliable Internet sites. Teachers read at all six stations and evaluate using criteria provided.	In groups teachers rank the six sites from most reliable to least reliable.
Teachers will determine level of Internet resource materials and match them with appropriate teaching strategies.	Using the guidelines given in Session 1, groups will analyse three sections from the reliable reading stations and determine how to present them to students.	Groups present ideas in large group session.
Teachers will diagram steps for using Internet reading.	In groups, teachers will create diagrams outlining the steps necessary to use Internet resources in class.	Diagrams posted on wall for others to discuss.

 

Reading Skills Practice

Tuesday - Session 3

Main Presenter: John Eyles

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will demonstrate effective reading skills.	Reading activity from English-To-Go.	Completed lesson.

 

Developing Students' Writing Skills

Wednesday - Session 1

Main Presenter: Joan Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will understand the role of writing in the language acquisition process.	Review of Tuesday's reading sessions and "The Blind Men and the Elephant" story presentation.	Participation in session.
Teachers will know the many forms of written language.	Mini lecture introducing forms of writing used in school, social contact and business.	Teachers identify formats useful for their students and how they would teach their use.
Teachers will know formats for standard book reports integrating the writing process at various language levels.	Story reading and book report writing demonstration followed by a teacher created classroom-writing activity.	Presentation of the classroom-writing activities produced.

 

Project Report Writing Skills

Wednesday - Session 2

Main Presenter: Graham Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will compose a project report following a ten-step writing process.	Mini-lecture followed by hands on practice for ten-step writing process. 1) brainstorming 2) note taking 3) classifying ideas 4) narrowing topic 5) draft writing 6) read aloud to a friend 7) rewrite 8) friend reads aloud 9) rewrite 10) publish	Completed 10-step writing worksheet.

 

Writing Skills Practice

Wednesday - Session 3

Main Presenter: John Eyles

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will demonstrate effective writing skills.	Writing activity from English-To-Go.	Completed lesson.

 

Presentation Skills Practice

Thursday - Session 1 and 2

Main Presenter: Graham Harper, John Eyles, Joan Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will identify effective presentation skills.	Skit by facilitators highlighting effective and ineffective presentation skills.	In a large group create a checklist of effective presentation skills.
Teachers will be able to design an evaluation criteria for presentations	In groups teachers will brainstorm, select, and compose criteria for presentation evaluation forms.	Groups hand in evaluation form incorporating the effective presentation skills.
Teachers will be able to judge the effectiveness of their own presentation skills.	Individually teachers will give a one-minute presentation, using a visual aid, while being video taped.	Using the group evaluation form above, teachers will self-evaluate their presentations from video.

 

Presentation Preparation

Thursday - Session 3

Friday – Session 1 & 2

Main Presenter: Graham Harper, John Eyles, Joan Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will create and deliver a presentation to 1) identify partners in... 2) summarize benefits of... 3) demonstrate how to develop and teach... 4) diagram steps to implement... 5) create materials for... 6) judge effectiveness of... community-based sustainable business projects	In groups, teachers prepare, practice and deliver a 10-minute presentation for an assigned audience / purpose. 1) Business managers / partnership building 2) Ministry of Education / provide time in curriculum 3) Local government / fund raising 4) School faculty / multidiscipline support 5) Parents / enlisting resource people 6) Students / creating motivation	Group presentations evaluated according to set criteria.

 

Workshop Evaluation and Closing

Friday – Session 3

Main Presenter: Graham Harper, John Eyles, Joan Harper

 

Learning Objectives	Learning Activities	Evaluation
Teachers will judge the effectiveness of the workshop activities to achieve the stated goal and objectives.   Workshop close	Individually teachers will complete a workshop evaluation form.	Completed evaluation forms.

 

 

Facilitators

 

Graham Harper 

B.A. Economics, University of Victoria, Canada

M.Sc. Environmental / Development Education, South Bank University, England (candidate)

Projects International - founder / curriculum coordinator

Kamakura Jogakuin High School, Japan - Head Teacher, English Communication Programme

 

John Eyles                         

B.A. Art & Design

RSA Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language ( Cambridge University )

M.A hons. Computer Mediated Curriculum Development, Auckland University of Technology

English-To-Go Internet Language Learning - Director

University of Waikato, New Zealand - Language Institute - Manager

British Council - Tokyo, Japan - Examiner

Waseda University - Tokyo Japan - Lecturer

Nihon University - Tokyo Japan - Lecturer

 

Joan Harper

B.Ed., University of British Columbia, Canada

M.A. Library Education, University of British Columbia

Vancouver School Board - Teacher / Librarian

Vancouver School Board - Consultant for curriculum implementation

University of British Columbia - Language Education Department Instructor

University of British Columbia - Supervisor of high school English Student Teachers

University of British Columbia - Internet-based Distance Education Instructor