Pre-Conference Workshop (PM2): Language Teacher Education 2.0: Designing and Implementing Online Learning
Session Type
Workshop
Program Summary
To reach more students and meet their diverse time and location constraints, language teacher education (LTE) programs are capitalizing on technological developments to offer part or all of their programs and credentials online (England, 2012). However, doing so can present practical and logistical questions that necessitate new and creative approaches to LTE while maintaining the development of what are considered critical components of language teacher knowledge-bases (cf. Freeman & Johnson, 1998). In this workshop, two faculty from the MA TESOL program at Hamline University, a program that has had distance and online offerings for more than 15 years, will guide participants in reflecting on their own contexts as sites for online language teacher education (OLTE) while taking stock of constraints and affordances. Workshop facilitators will then work collaboratively with participants to explore a framework for designing and developing OLTE courses with special attention to creating learning spaces and activities that are socially mediated, grounded in real world application and experiential learning, and foster reflective practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share and learn from each other and will leave with ideas for developing online courses and activities in their contexts.