HU Writing Center will offer the intensive course "Pedagogical Approaches in Academic Writing in English" through Microsoft Teams.

[Date] : Tuesday, Septermber 28 - Wednesday, September 29
[Instructor] : Wang Tingjia, Assistant professor, Writing Center
[Syllabus]: https://momiji.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/syllabusHtml_en/2021_AJ_8A001401_en.html

Registration of the course is open by Monday, September 27. Please register on Momiji.

Graduates who are interested in pedagogy and/or potential TA opportunities in the Writing Center are both welcomed. 

This course is a 2-day intensive course held on September 28 (Tuesday) and 29 (Wednesday), 2021, online through Microsoft Teams. This course aims to develop graduates' pedagogical skills in lesson plans to facilitate their preparation and delivery of a course in Academic Writing in English. This course will introduce a pedagogical approach called Teaching and Learning Cycle and provide students opportunities to develop their teaching ideas into a lesson plan with the use of a provided template. This course will develop students' evaluative skills of potential teaching resources, time management and self-evaluative skills to their own lesson design.

In addition to the Teaching and Learning Cycle, this course will introduce another pedagogical concept known as Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework, which will premise students' teaching practice on a theoretical foundation. The TPACK framework provides a descriptive and evaluative tool to facilitate an educator's development of various types of knowledge and necessary skills in today's teaching context, including the disciplinary knowledge, the pedagogical knowledge and the ICT knowledge. This course will introduce the TPACK framework and discuss what kind of TPACK knowledge is needed in teaching Academic Writing in English.

lesson1 Introduction (9/28, 8:45-10:15)
This course is a 2-day intensive course held on September 28 (Tuesday) and 29 (Wednesday), 2021, online through Microsoft Teams.

This lesson will introduce the Teaching and Learning Cycle, the outline of this course, the expectation and the assessment.

lesson2 A Modelling Lesson (9/28, 10:30-12:00)
This lesson will demonstrate how to prepare a Modelling lesson and develop a lesson plan in the provided template. Students will have opportunities to practise on their selected teaching topics and resources to develop a Modelling lesson.

lesson3 A Joint Construction Lesson (9/28, 12:50-14:20)
This lesson will demonstrate how to prepare a Joint Construction lesson and develop a lesson plan in the provided template. Students will have opportunities to practise on their selected teaching topics and resources to develop a Joint Construction lesson.

lesson4 An Independent Construction Lesson (9/28, 14:35-16:05)
This lesson will demonstrate how to prepare an Independent Construction lesson and develop a lesson plan in the provided template. Students will have opportunities to practise on their selected teaching topics and resources to develop an Independent Construction lesson.

lesson5 The Teaching and Learning Cycle (9/29, 8:45-10:15)
This lesson will recap the lesson design of the Modelling, Joint Construction and Independent Construction lessons and the cohesion in between. Students will have opportunities to brief their lesson plans in small groups and suggest on each other's lesson plans.

lesson6 The TPACK Framework (9/29, 10:30-12:00)
This lesson will introduce the TPACK framework and exemplify each type of knowledge in the TPACK framework in the context of academic writing in English.

lesson7 The TPACK Framework (9/29, 12:50-14:20)
Students will have opportunities to reiterate TPACK concepts to peers in small groups and to discuss more examples either in the context of academic writing in English or in the context of other subjects that they are interested in teaching.

lesson8 Wrap-up (9/29, 14:35-16:05)
This lesson will recap the Teaching and Learning Cycle and the TPACK framework, and respond to students' questions.