Key Guideline

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PHNOM PENH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

KEY GUIDELINES

Since quality, excellence, and innovation stand at the heart of Phnom Penh International

University (PPIU), the Faculty of Education has formulated key guidelines to be adopted in

this Academic Year 2011-2012, with specific reference to the Universitys Lecturer

Regulations and Student Regulations. The guidelines are portions of the indicators that the

Faculty of Education will employ to evaluate your teaching performance at the end of each

semester. As such, please follow the guidelines below STRICTLY, in addition to theUniversitys Lecturer Regulations and Student Regulations, to promote the quality of the

Facultys language education.

1. Teaching and Learning

1.1. Please encourage and teach your students to useFolder for keeping all the teaching and

learning materials given.

1.2. Please check your students attendance regularly, and submit all the attendance lists to(1) the Faculty of Education, (2) the Foundation Year Department for Year 1 only, and (3) the

Academic Office for Years 2-4, at the end of each semester.

1.3. Please tell and/or teach your students to sit properly, meaning that the students must

NOT be allowed to sit here and there.

1.4. Please as much as possible refrain from sitting and teaching your students in the class.

Please adopt only Khmer culture in terms of behavior.

1.5. Please avoid speaking Khmer language in the class, except when the concept is too

difficult for your students to understand. And please encourage your students to use the target

language in the class and the campus.

1.6. Please avoid talking irrelevantly (e.g., talking about yourself, other people, irrelevant

issues, and/or other institutions) in the class. Talking about politics is strongly prohibited.

1.7. Please avoid grading or scoring your students pieces of work in the class.

1.8. Please adopt Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)Approach to the best of your

ability and knowledge, meaning that you are supposed to devise tasks, techniques, and

activities that enable your students to use the target language in real-world communication


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(i.e. having an ability to understand and use English in listening, speaking, reading, and

writing). Communicative competence is the core value of your teaching Subjects.

1.9. For Lecturers of Academic Writing, please adopt both a process- and a genre-based

approach in your teaching of Writing Skills, with the provision of multiple-draft feedback on

student writing.

1.10. Please provide your students with feedback, if possible both oral and written feedback,

timely and regularly. Failing to do so may disable your students to acquire the target language

effectively and efficiently. Please read my MA Thesis entitled as Using Oral and Written

Feedback to Improve Student Writing: An Investigation from Cambodian University

Students Perspectives to see how useful an integration of both oral and written feedback is

at http://asian-efl-journal.com/thesis.php.

1.11. Please refrain from LATE IN, EARLY OUT or EARLY COME, EARLY GO. The

Faculty of Education will closely and regularly monitor your attendance and your teaching

process without your awareness.

1.12. Please work with your team to developcommonCourse Syllabus(es) for your

Subject(s) at least one week prior to the commencement of each semester, and submit it/them

to the Faculty to double-check. The approved syllabus(es) shall be disseminated to your

students on the first day of orientation.

1.13. Please prepare your lessons well and ensure that they are well digested prior to each

class or session.

1.14. For other issues, please refer to the latest updated Lecturer Regulations disseminated

by Mr. Hin Sam Art (Senior Vice-Rector) during the meeting at 10:00AM on 22/Sep/2011.

2. Testing and Assessment

2.1. Please avoid bombarding your students with too many tasks or pieces of work, and

ensure that the tasks are both purposeful (i.e. responsive to the course objectives) and

meaningful (i.e. useful for your students).

2.2. Please useMicrosoft Excel to record your students on-going assessment scores, divided

into (1) Attendance Scores, (2) Assignment/Homework Scores, and (3) Mid-Term Scores.

The Excel Scores shall be submitted in both a soft and a hard copy to (1) the Faculty of

Education, (2) the Foundation Year Department for Year 1 only, and (3) the Academic Office

for Years 2-4, at the end of each semester.
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Assessment Types Percentage

1. On-going assessment 55%

1.1.Attendance and participation 10%1.2.Assignments, presentations,

homework, quizzes, and so on

It is up to individual lecturer.

1.3.Mid-term test It is up to individual lecturer.2. Final exam 45%

Total 100%

Notes: (1) Sixty (60) percent is a passing score.

(2) The scale of the total final exam score is 45 out of 45, NOT 100/100 or whatsoever.

2.3. To be professional and ethical, please avoid curving your students scores in any way.

The scores given must be fair, transparent, and highly reflective of each students

performance.

2.4. Please test what has been taught and ensure that your test papers, ranging from the Mid-

Term and the Final, are purposeful (i.e. responsive to the course objectives) and meaningful

(i.e. useful for students). Please check and pilot your test papers carefully before formally

administering them in the class.

2.5. Please submit yourFinal Examination Paper in a soft copy (Microsoft Word) to the

Faculty of Education to be integrated and checked in terms of validity, reliability, practicality

and authenticity. Only one test paper of each subject will be used in the Final Examination.

Note:Your test papers shall consist of both objective and subjective testing items. The

objective testing items include true/false statements, gap-filling sentences, matching, cloze

passage, and multiple-choice questions. Only 0.5 mark is allocated to each of the objective

testing items. The subjective testing items entail comprehension questions and controlled

writing, and the questions are supposed to follow the six levels of Blooms Taxonomy. Your

test paper must be 6-8 pages long and error-free.

2.6. Please strictly administer your tests, meaning that your students are NOT allowed to

cheat in any way.


by Mr. Hin Sam Art (Senior Vice-Rector) during the meeting at 10:00AM on September 22,

2011.


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3. Extra-Materials / Handouts

3.1. All handouts handed to your students shall be accurate, relevant to, and useful for their

learning. To be accurate, it is a good idea to copy them from the original textbook(s), rather

than re-typing them, which may result in topographical errors.

3.2. Please provide your students with as manyRELEVANTmaterials/handouts as possible.

3.3. Please make use of all the available resources at your disposal and at the Universitys

disposal (i.e. LCDs, audio-rooms, textbooks, handbooks, and so on).

3.4. Please attach your handouts with the Universitys Name, the Facultys Name, your

Name, and your Subject, as a Header.

4. Miscellaneous

4.1. Please submit yourAvailable Time upon request, and ensure that it is ACCURATE and

IS NOT SUBJCT TO CHANG later. Late submission will result in having no class to teach

in the semester to come.

4.2. Please check your e-mail regularly to get informed about the Universitys meetings and

updated policies.

4.3. Please attend meetings upon request. Failing to attend the meetings for three consecutive

times will result in having no class to teach permanently.

4.4. Please actively involve yourself in curriculum development and syllabus design (i.e.

course outlines/syllabuses) upon request.

4.5. Please take some of your valuable time for on-campus promotion activities and other

extra-curricular activities.


by Mr. Hin Sam Art (Senior Vice-Rector) during the meeting at 10:00AM on September 22,

2011.

KEY NOTE

Again, please STRICTLY follow the aforementioned guidelines since they are portions of the

indictors that the Faculty of Education will use to evaluate your teaching performance. As

informed during the technical meeting at 10:00AM on August 31, 2011, you will be

evaluated based on a fair, scientific, and psychometric procedureat least TWO weeks prior to

the end of each semester. The evaluation will take the three forms below:

(1) student evaluation (random sampling from each class);


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(2) classroom-based observation by the Faculty of Education; and

(3) self-rating or self-evaluation.

The collected data will be input into SPSS Version 19 for data analysis, and the results will

be sealed in a confidential envelop and handed to individual lecturers. The Faculty willrelease the indictors and/or instruments to all of you when they are complete. Therefore,

please be well-prepared for this action, and make sure that your teaching process will fulfill

or match each criterion of evaluation from the perspectives of students, the Faculty, and

yourself.

The number of classes allocated to you in subsequent semesters is totally based on your

available time, the actual number of classes at the Facultys disposal, and most importantly

your teaching merit. As a result, please be realistic and sensible; the Faculty will, to the best

of his knowledge and ability, ensure his fairness, transparency, and equity among all his

lecturers.

Lets work together to make the Faculty of Education of PPIU become

unique and robust in Cambodia.

Thanks for your strict implementation to be!

Phnom Penh, October 01, 2011

Kea Leaph

Faculty of Education

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