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Designing a Spanish cpd course
1. Designing a CPD course online: Spanish for Primary teaching Tita Beaven, Department of Languages, The Open University April 2009
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6. Clear learning outcomes The learning outcomes are clearly stated at the start of each new topic.
7. Learning how to learn Language learning strategies are introduced throughout the course, to ensure the participants think about how to learn a language, both for themselves and for the children they will be teaching.
8. Collaboration The course provides students with a number of collaborative tools such as a forum, a course blog and a wiki so they can engage with others course participants.
9. Learning support Students also have access to a Learning adviser, an experience distance teachers of languages, who can support students individually via e-mail or collectively through the forum
10. Situate learning in relevant contexts The introduction to each section situates the learning in a context that course participants can understand and relate to.
11. Focus on pronunciation It is essential that classroom practitioners are able to offer the children they teach a good enough model when speaking the foreign language, so there is a lot of focus on pronunciation.
12. Focus on grammar Rather than just presenting language for the course participants to learn, we feel it’s important that they understand the grammar, so that they can generate their own language. A basic understanding of how the language works will also enable teachers to teach the language to the children better.
13. Focus on listening The course includes regular listening activities, that range from listening for gist to more focussed listening. In this example, after listening to the recording focussing on the meaning, course participants listen again and focus on the language by deciding if the question is in the formal or informal mode of address.
14. Focus on speaking In an online course it is very important to give the learner plenty of opportunity to speak. Interactive speaking activities like this one simulate real interaction by providing a prompt students have to respond to.
15. Interactive practice Because it’s an online course that learners study mostly on their own, there are regular interactive activities. This helps maintain interest and motivation in the learner.
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17. Classroom language Some of the activities in this section provide learners with the sort of “classroom language” they can easily transfer to their own setting. This listening activity, for instance, is about a teacher taking the register.
18. Practical suggestions for the classroom The course also includes practical suggestions about how to present the language to the children in class.
19. Any questions? For more information on the CPD courses: http://www.open.ac.uk/cpd/index.php?q=node/104 For information on Spanish at the OU: http://www.open.ac.uk/education-and-languages/courses_and_qualifications/our_courses_and_qualifications/spanish.php
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