Task Based Learning Workshop

Getting Inspired Once Again towards TBL and its Lesson Planning

I attended the Task-Based Learning workshop held by the Ministry of Education and British Council Taiwan for the first time over two years ago and already have done many teaching demonstrations, English camps, and Skype exchange projects with principles and techniques learned from this brilliant English teaching approach since then. However, as soon as I learned about there would be a five-day TBL workshop this week by the very same lecturer, I immediately decided to sign up for the THIRD time and enjoyed every class of it.  

Classroom Language and Task Based Learning

This is actually the second time that I attended the TBL workshop by the British Council. The first one helped me a lot understand how the ideas and techniques of this communicative approach take shape in the real world. It’s really good I can refresh my memory and also gain new perspectives in terms of TBL, especially I know I’m on the right track after briefly talking about one of my TBL lesson plans with the Director English, Jamie. Also, he kindly offered some very useful suggestions of differentiating some of the activities in the main tasks :   

Core Competency, Alternative Curriculum, and Lesson Planning with TBL

http://www.naer.edu.tw/ezfiles/0/1000/img/52/129488083.pdf

To promote Task-Based Learning and develop feasible school-developed curriculum, I accepted an invitation from Nani, one of the major textbook publishers, in the hope that in-service teachers can be better prepared for the demanding challenges brought by the implementation of the new national curriculum guidelines.

Teaching Demonstration Filming Project of NCUE: Superlatives and Simple Past

It's been the second time to work with The College of Extension Education of National Changhua University of Education, NCUE, on this filming project for my third and fourth English teaching videos. The main idea is that English teachers can learn and benefit from the videos of this project online as part of the in-service training program of the Ministry of Education. These two dedicated videos of "Superlatives" and "Simple Past" were demonstrated with a variety of activities based on the principles of Task Based Learning, which emphasizing the meaningful application of the language in a context.

Teaching Demonstrations for Pre-service Teachers: Task-based Learning

南一書局 英語文領域新綱特刊 Vol. 2

Today's teaching demonstration served a dual purpose. One was to help promote Task-based Learning with not only the lesson plan but actual execution in a class. The other was to discuss how to deliver a good 15-minute teaching demonstration to stand out in that extremely fierce competition.

Microteaching with TBL and Cooperative Learning at MLJH

Microteaching with TBL and Cooperative Learning at MLJH
A lesson learned. Using only Classroom English is better than EOP.
明天的合作學習到校教學演示，相同的課本、文本、活動及學習單等，在今天下午老師們已經和我演練過一遍。

British Council TaiwanTask-Based Learning Certificate: Lesson Planning and Microteaching

Lesson Planning

"This is actually the third TBL workshops I've attended. Ever since the first one, I started putting what I learned into practice and did many teaching demonstrations within and outside of my school. On top of that, I'm an English teacher who loves to create an authentic environment for my students to really use the language. I've conducted several Skype exchange projects with my partners outside of Taiwan. As shown this morning, we began making English videos to introduce the beauty of Taichung with this lesson plan and its tasks. It works like magic."       

Final reflection at the workshop by Guo-jhen

Teaching Demonstration with TBL at Tan Show

Teaching Demonstration with TBL at Tan Show

Respect Different Cultures (B3L3 A Hard Lesson for Jason, Nan-I)

臺中市立光明國中李國禎

This class is aimed at demonstrating how incorporating a series of reading tasks and Cooperative Learning techniques can help engage students with the given text, “Respect Different Cultures”, and also develop some reading strategies, like predicting, questioning and summarizing.

This lesson plan mainly follows the framework of Task Based Learning, with three stages stated as follows.

Teaching Demonstration: Reading Comprehension with TBL

Lesson Plan

Today, I did a teaching demonstration with my homeroom class for a group of professors and students from Beijing Normal University and South China Normal University. With the textbook article, A Letter to Grandma, I intended to help my students develop active reading skills with a series of tasks because they will have to cope with challenging reading comprehension questions next year.

Microteaching with TBL and Reading Strategeis at LMJH

It was totally my honor today to get invited by this well-established school which has achieved great success in Cooperative Learning. Principal Li took part in the workshop throughout the entire time and asked questions that indicated he himself is also an expert in this field.

Teaching Demonstration Filming Project: English reading activities

I always search for ideas and techniques from Task Based Learning and Backward Design when planning my lessons for teaching demonstrations. With a series of reading activities, students actively and collaboratively experienced how their comprehension of the reading passage can be improved by completing the pre, main and post tasks based on TBL.

On top of that, Backward Design focuses beginning with the end, meaning you start lesson planning by determining the desired outcomes first. Following that, you then look for activities to help equip students with what they need to perform the next one. In other words, Because my students have effective scaffolding beforehand, I want them to run out of excuses not to be able to complete the tasks.

Lesson Plan for a Teaching Demonstration at TCJH

合作學習與閱讀活動

Teaching Demonstration with TBL and Cooperative Learning at TCJH

(B3L3 A Hard Lesson for Jason, Nan-I)

臺中市立光明國中李國禎

This class is aimed to demonstrate how incorporating reading tasks with Tasked Based Leaning and some Cooperative Learning techniques can help motivate and engage most of the students in terms of reading comprehension strategies.

I. Pre-Task

Objective 1: With some silly questions about Richard, students are willing to take a wild guess on the mini whiteboard by discussing with each other.

Activity 1: True or False

Assessment 1: Observation

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The Workshop of Task Based Learning

Using intriguing tasks to get students using the language for meaningful communication

DMSH分組合作學習到校教學演示

Teaching Demonstration at DMSH
分組合作學習到校教學演示

原先設計的Building rapport活動都還沒用到，結果一進班上學生就說老師很帥，雖說已是中年大叔了，但還是讓我原本有點緊張的心情立刻穩定下來。

Microteaching with TBL and Reading Strategies at NSJH

This time, I worked even harder on reading up as much as I can about reading strategies and putting all the resources together in order to create a complete lesson plan of microteaching mainly targeting important skills that help bolster reading comprehension. Once again, I feel thankful for the opportunity to not only benefit the participants of the workshop but more importantly, myself, in terms of self-growth.

Teaching Demonstration with Cooperative Learning and TBL at CGSH

Teaching Demonstration at CGSH

With Lesson 6 already covered by the original teacher, this class is aimed at demonstrating how incorporating authentic application of the language and some cooperative learning activity techniques can help motivate and engage students with intriguing learning tasks.

2017 MOE Principal Instructional Leadership Workshop

Developing interdisciplinary and custom-made learning materials aiming for reading comprehension and real application

It was completely my honor to be assigned and take on this huge task, with a group of principals and professors observing throughout the entire class. On top of that,
in order to demonstrate interdisciplinary collaborations for future workshops, I also worked closely with the students' homeroom teacher, who teaches Scouting Activity, and developed custom-made reading materials to depict the host school's camping trip next month.  

EMI Cross-curricular Teaching: When Lantern Meets English

English as a Medium of Instruction

臺中市教育電子報

How to design an EMI cross-curricular course and engage the students through Backward Design and Task-based Learning lesson planning 

Lesson Plan: Reading Comprehension with TBL

Teaching Demonstration Filming Project

B2L8 Means of Transportation

https://youtu.be/g5tjEc7yVKY
B2L9 Reading Activities
https://youtu.be/5pRuoDwhq9E

It is my honor and pleasure today to film for the “Teaching Demonstration Project” with the National Changhua University of Education. The idea is to demonstrate some innovative teaching strategies targeting reading and grammar in textbooks for all the junior high English teachers. On top of that, it is also my privilege to work with those lovely students in雅心書軒for the very first time after its unveiling ceremony at PHJH.