MOE Foreign English Teacher Recruitment Project 2016 In-Service Training

Venue:
Nation Academy for Education Research (NAER), Taichung Branch
No.67, Shifan St., Fengyuan Dist., Taichung City 420, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Date:
January 25th ~27th (Monday to Wednesday), 2016

Requirements:
For the three-day in-service training, FETs are invited to share their teaching activities and teaching experiences. Each teacher will have 20 minutes, including 5 mins for playing teaching videos, 10 mins for presentation and last 5 mins for Q&A. If the presentation is accompanied by a powerpoint, that would be wonderful. Please submit your presentation materials by Jan5, 2016 to (Please save the files as “date+presenter’s name” ie, “20160125Jane.ppt” or “20160125Jane.wmv”)

We don’t strictly regulate the content and form of your presentation. However, we would like to see the following:

  1. Interesting and practical teaching activities. (You may demonstrate by video clip)
  2. Co-teaching experience, either before-class or after-class . (You may demonstrate by video clip)
  3. Difficulties encountered when teaching in Taiwan.

Notice:

  1. One of your co-teacher should come and present with you. Even if you teach independently at school, please come with a domestic English teacher who usually discusses lesson plans with you.
  2. We will meet at Fengyuan train station. A shuttle bus will pick up and take us to NAER. Your school should take care of the ticket(from your school to Fengyuan train station)
  3. We will depart at 16:00 on Jan 27th together. A shuttle bus will send us to Fengyuan train station. Because not every FET will go back to school directly, please discuss with your school about the reimbursement of the return ticket.
  4. We will stay in the dorm in NAER. Please prepare your own cup and personal toiletry.

Itinerary

1/25 Day1
Time / Content / Host
10:00 / Meeting Point：Fengyuan train station.
a shuttle bus on 10:00am sharp(about 20 mins to NAER)
10:30-10:40 / Check in
10:40-11:40 / Introduction of In-Service Training / Counselor
Lina Tseng
11:40-12:00 / Opening / MOE
Dep. Of English, NTNU
Brian Yeh
12:00-12:50 / Lunch
12:50-13:30 / Break
13:30-16:10 / 【Teaching Experience Sharing Part 1】 / Dep. Of Children English Education, NTUE
Yaming Tai
[Hsinchu County]
13:30-13:50Tory Shephard
13:50-14:10 Matthew A. Whiteford
14:10-14:30Tracy. St. John
14:30-14:50 / Comment
14:50-15:00 / Break
[Miaoli County]
15:00-15:20Tina Lin
15:20-15:40Rebecca Carr
15:40-16:00 / Comment
16:00-16:10 / Break
16:10-17:10 / 【Professional Development 1】 / Miaoli County
English Teaching Resources Center
Coordinator
Tara Linn Kuttainen
Curriculum Design
Elementary School
17:30-18:20 / Dinner
1/26 Day 2
Time / Content / Host
07:30-08:20 / Breakfast
08:20-08:30 / Preparation
08:30-11:00 / 【Teaching Experience Sharing Part 2】 / Dep. Of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University
Min-HsunChiang
[Yunlin/Changhua/Yilan County]
08:30-08:50 Kristin Dawn Moore
08:50-09:10 Martin Duncan Brown
09:10-09:30 I-Chin Ariel Chen
09:30-09:50 / Comment
09:50-10:00 / Break
[Yilan County]
10:00-10:20 Kyle Nicholas Bramlett
10:20-10:40 Theresa Wang
10:40-10:50 / Comment
10:50-11:00 / Break
11:00-12:00 / 【Professional Development 2】 / Taoyuan City
Yung-An / Do-Po Junior High School
Sandra Lou Schwab
Curriculum Design
Junior High School
12:00-12:50 / Lunch
13:00-17:20 / Cultural Exploration
17:30-18:20 / Dinner
1/27 Day 3
Time / Content / Host
07:30-08:20 / Breakfast
08:20-08:30 / Preparation
08:30-11:00 / [Chiayi / PenghuCounty]
08:30-08:50 Shawn Patrick Lajeunesse
08:50-09:10 Bill Neff Blackmon JR.
09:10-09:30Govinda Johnson / Dep. Of English Language and Literature, TCU
Chung-tien Chou
09:30-09:50 / Comment
09:50-10:00 / Break
[Hualien/ Miaoli County]
10:00-10:20 John Anthony Geary
10:20-10:40 Collette Leigh Yeh
10:40-10:50 / Comment
10:50-11:00 / Break
11:00-12:00 / 【Teaching Workshop - The World Cafe】
Five Topics:
  1. Vocabulary (Chloe)
  2. Phonics (Anita)
  3. Sentence Pattern (Lina)
  4. Festivals (Lilian)
  5. Story Telling (Ben)

12:00-12:50 / Lunch
13:00-15:00 / Presentation / Dep. Of English Language and Literature, TCU
Chung-tien Chou
15:10-15:30 / Q&A / Dep. Of English, NTNU
Brian Yeh
15:30-15:50 / Closing / MOE
Dep. Of English, NTNU
Brian Yeh
16:00 / Departure : shuttle bus to Fengyuan train station