Teacher Education

Module code: EN7505

This module aims to introduce you to some basic considerations in Language Teacher Education. The aim is to provide you with some guiding principles that can offer a foundation for becoming a language teacher educator. The key to teacher education is considered to be the bringing together of theory (abstract, de-contextualised, collective thought) with practice (individual, contextually bound, constrained action) in a productive conversation.

Topics covered

Introduction to teacher education
Models and approaches to teacher education
Teacher cognition
Designing a teacher education programme
Activities for teacher education
Supervision, mentoring and giving feedback on observed teaching practice
Approaches to ongoing teacher development