From the drawing board to worksheet design: Creating a course

FROM THE DRAWING BOARD TO WORKSHEET DESIGN: CREATING A COURSE

ELTAF Workshop 22nd June 2013 Claire Hart

ABOUT ME

WORKSHOP STRUCTURE1) Approaches to course design a. Some key terms b. Three recipes for course design - case studies

2) Top ten tips for designing worksheets

LET´S LOOK AT SOME KEY TERMS…

What is:

A coursePersonalisationTailor-made A negotiated syllabusCourse design

Design

Leaners´needs

Stakeholders´expectations

What´s possible

A course

THREE RECIPES FOR COURSE DESIGNTopic-driven Communication situation analysisJIT (Just In Time)

1. THE TOPIC-DRIVEN APPROACH 1.Topic options

2.Choose 5 or 6 topics

3.What vocab? grammar?

4.4 skills work

5.Business skills

Spend 4- 5 weeks on each topic

MIXING AND MATCHING Context: In-company Industry: Construction Timeframe: 38 weeks Participants: 8 Level: mixed from high A2 to B2 Jobs: salesman, quality engineer, civil engineer, architect

Needs: -> Broaden knowledge of industry-specific vocabulary-> Improve accuracy-> Work on business skills, especially telephoning and emailing

WHAT WAS THE FIRST TOPIC?

PLANWeek 1: Starting a conversationWeek 2: Tenses review -> present simple, continuous & perfect, past simple

Week 3: Have you ever? Week 4: Technology landmarksWeek 5: Showing interest

Skills

Speaking Starting a conversation Discussing experiencesShowing interest

Writing Making notes

Reading Reading model conversations

Listening Active listening

Grammar Vocab

WHAT REALLY HAPPENEDWe spent 7 weeks on this topicIn particular we spent a lot of time working on tenses

I realised we needed to focus more on conversation strategies and techniques

The learners enjoyed working on this topic

DESIGNING WORKSHEETS

WORKSHEETS?

MY TOP 10 TIPS

NUMBER 10

Be consistent

NUMBER 9

Use boxes and tables

NUMBER 8

Use tabs, bullets and numbering

NUMBER 7

Leave space for the learners

IS THIS ENOUGH SPACE? 1 Concrete is used to ______build walls______.

2 Copper is used to _________________________ .

3 Steel is used to _________________________ .

4 Fibreglass is used to _________________________ .

5 Carbon is used to _________________________ .

6 PVC is used to _________________________ .

IS THIS ENOUGH SPACE?

NUMBER 6

Use images

NUMBER 5

Use a variety of activity types

Matching pictures with wordsMatching words with meaningsMatching sentence halvesMatching questions and answersOrdering conversationsCategorising wordsTrue or false

NUMBER 4

Try jumbled phrases

NUMBER 3

Ask a different question

What does Karsten want to know?

Why?Consequences?

NUMBER 2

Include topics and issues that matter to the

learners

NUMBER 1The learners should know or be able to do something at the end of the lesson that they didn´t know or couldn´t do at the start of the lesson Michael

Swan

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION

You can email me at: clairehart@gmail.com