Exploring the Interface. ESL/ALBE Team Teaching Project Report.

Institution	Council of Adult Education, Melbourne (Australia).; Adult, Community, and Further Education Board, Melbourne (Australia).
Titel	Exploring the Interface. ESL/ALBE Team Teaching Project Report.
Quelle	(1995), (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Basic Education; Adult Educators; Adult Literacy; Basic Skills; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Inservice Teacher Education; Literacy Education; Professional Development; Teacher Improvement; Teacher Workshops; Teaching Methods; Team Teaching; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult education teacher; Adult training; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Basic skill; Grundfertigkeit; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Lehrerfortbildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Teamteaching; Australien
Abstract	An Australian project provided an inservice, team teaching program interspersed with professional development workshops for community-based practitioners in English as a Second Language (ESL) and Adult Literacy and Basic Education (ABLE). The group who participated included four ESL teachers working in community providers and four adult literacy teachers working at the Council of Adult Education. Teachers attended three workshop sessions and participated in two team teaching rounds of two classes per round. Teachers stayed with one team teaching partner for the whole process. Findings indicated all teachers involved in the project found the opportunity to visit other settings and to engage with different groups of learners to be an invaluable experience. Benefits for students were an additional teacher in the classroom and the teachers' use of an extended repertoire of teaching strategies and methodologies. Recommendations were as follows: consideration of team teaching as a viable professional development option; coherent organization of professional development targeted at regional, cross-regional, and statewide levels according to type of activity; better publicizing of existing networks to teachers; and formal recognition of diverse pathways through which teachers acquire knowledge, skills, and experience to work with adult students. (Appendixes include class profiles and project forms.) (YLB)
Anmerkungen	Adult Basic Education Resource and Information Service, National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia, GPO Box 372F, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia ($6 Australian plus postage).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC