Course: Reflection for Professional Development I

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Course title Reflection for Professional Development I
Course code KAA/KREF1
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Černá Monika, doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
  • Spurná Michaela, doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Spilková Vladimíra, prof. PhDr. CSc.
Course content
The Reflective seminar is closely linked to Teaching practice 1. Key topics include: Professionalisation of teaching, Reflection on teaching practice experience (aims, purpose, content), teflective techniques, forming own evidence- and theory-based teaching philosophy, professional identity. Teaching Practice Student's (Self)Evaluation (instrument: The Student´s Profile of Competences) Professional vision; analysis of one´s own video

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities, Monitoring
  • Contact teaching - 8 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 20 hours per semester
  • Data/material collection - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for a credit (assessment) - 7 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 15 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Reflective Didactic Seminar is closely linked to Teaching Practice I, i.e. teaching English at lower secondary schools. The aim of the course is to enable student teachers to learn to reflect on their teaching practice experience with reference to the criteria and indicators included in The Student´s Profile of Competences.
Student teachers learn to analyse their experience, further develop the knowledge base for teaching, formulate and form their own professional ´philosophy´, and broaden the range of their reflective strategie and techniques.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance assessment, Oral performance analysis, Work-related product analysis, Discussion, Systematic monitoring

1. Reflective diary (continuously) 2. Essay: What teacher am I? 3. Video of one´s own recording and its analysis 4. (Self)assessment of the student´s practice teaching (instrument: The profile of the student´s competences) - oral interview based on the materials 2 - 4 listed above
Recommended literature
  • RICHARDS, J.C.; LOCKHART. Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms. Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN 0 521 45803 X.
  • SCRIVENER, J. Learning Teaching. Oxford: Macmillen Heinemann, 2005. ISBN 1405013990.


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