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PP 100: Certificate Foundation Course

• January 11-February 21, 2010 (Instructor: Emily Reynolds) 
• April 26-June 6, 2010 (Instructor: Emily Reynolds)
• October 11-November 21, 2010 (Instructor: Emily Reynolds)

This course is intended for ESOL professionals who want acquire pedagogical and technical skills needed to successfully teach courses online. The course promotes awareness of online teaching skills, techniques, and curriculum design. It introduces participants to the major design parameters that make online courses different. The course reflects the communicative nature of the online environment and is based on asynchronous discussion and collaboration. The instructor will model the strategies that participants could eventually use in their own online courses or hybrid courses in which teachers blend online with face-to face segments of their courses. Participants also experiment on a basic level with several pieces of software which need to be downloaded to their computers.

PP 100 is organized on a weekly, modular basis. The instructor may require participants to log on to the course a minimum number of times each week. Participants complete and turn in weekly assignments. Successful creation of a basic web page is a requirement. The structure for each week is similar, with the topic and discussion questions changing appropriately. The instructor will also require online readings to augment the participants' learning experience.

PP 100 is graded on a Pass/No Pass basis. The instructor bases final grades on class participation, determined by weekly assignments and class discussions, and the final project. Participants must pass this course before taking other courses in the program.

Topics covered:

• An overview of online learning and teaching.
• The online student's roles and responsibilities in the virtual classroom.
• The facilitator's role in the virtual classroom and characteristics of a successful online instructor.
• Strategies to promote communication and collaboration in the virtual classroom.
• Curriculum conversion for the online environment.
• Introduction to software applications for editing in Word, recording voice, creating web pages, and creating online exercises.

Goals:

• Explore the virtual classroom from the perspective of a student.
• Explore the issues surrounding online teaching in depth.
• See the skills and technologies within a Course Management System in action that teachers use in online courses
• Experience and critique model online courses.
• Provide an international forum for networking and for sharing ideas and experiences.

Emily Reynolds is an ESOL consultant and Academic Director at BizEnglish.com located in Boulder, Colorado, USA where she designs and delivers online courses in Business English for international business people. The former Director of Business English Programs at the Economics Institute, University of Colorado, she has taught, designed curriculum and courses, directed programs and written nine ESL textbooks over the last 30 years. Her latest book English for Global Business (University of Michigan Press) recently won TESOL’s Materials Development Award. Emily founded BizEnglish in 1997, and has been working online and face-to-face to deliver language and teacher training courses since then.

About TESOL's Principles and Practices of Online Teaching Certificate Program

TESOL's "Principles and Practices of Online Teaching" certificate program is designed for the experienced and the inexperienced online English language teacher and course designer. The program consists of certificate foundation and completion courses, and ten courses in general and content-specific topics.