Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World

Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World is a teacher-training course consisting of fourteen video-based modules with a supporting training manual and supplementary resources. Each module is a ten to fifteen minute video segment with examples from classrooms and educators around the world. Each module also has corresponding readings and support materials that can be printed and copied.

The expression “a picture is worth a thousand words” takes on rich meaning when applied to videos of teachers in their classrooms. The Shaping the Way We Teach English video materials proudly showcase English language teachers and students in action in a variety of contexts around the world

Who should use Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World?

Whether teachers are working with children, teens, or adults, Shaping the Way We Teach English offers thought-provoking input to help stimulate new ideas for the classroom.

These materials are designed to be used by groups of teachers, either in an organized teacher training workshop led by a facilitator or in less formal situations where teachers gather to further their own professional development. The materials are for both new and experienced EFL teachers and teacher trainers who wish to:

• Observe a wide range of teaching practices.
• Evaluate these teaching practices through peer discussion and individual reflection.
• Adapt materials and techniques to suit their own teaching needs.
• Act upon insights gained by implementing new ideas.
• Reflect on what they have learned and begin the “observe, evaluate, adapt, act” cycle again.

The Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World experience

Shaping the Way We Teach English contains fourteen units that explore eleven full-length class videos and two shorter videos about alternative assessment.

The units provide hands-on, discussion, and reflection activities that help users to develop a variety of pedagogical skills:

• Classroom management
• Language teaching techniques
• Encouraging critical and creative thinking
• Lesson observation skills
• Adapting activities and lesson planning

Each unit is designed with the following goals in mind:

1. To help viewers observe the class videos in a focused and meaningful manner by directing their attention to particular features seen in these classrooms.
2. To guide educators in applying those observations to their own teaching contexts; to help them reflect on what they have learned by watching the videos and to act upon insights gained by completing the unit activities.

View the Shaping the Way We Teach English: Successful Practices Around the World materials.