In this two-day interactive workshop, participants will learn to develop classroom assessments for language classrooms. This workshop will prepare participants to do the following:
- Distinguish between formative and summative assessment
- Establish and communicate clear learning goals for your class
- Select and implement assessment methods that match learning goals
- Provide useful feedback to students
- Use assessment results to improve instruction
Tentative schedule:
Day 1, session 1: Introductions, workshop overview, fundamentals of assessment; reliability & validity
Day 1, session 2: Translating content standards into learning goals for the classroom; assessment of reading and listening
Day 2, session 1: Classroom assessment of speaking and writing; rubrics; providing constructive feedback
Day 2, session 2: Involving students in assessment: peer and self-assessment techniques; using assessment results to improve instruction
| Event Date | 10-22-2019 8:30 am |
| Event End Date | 10-23-2019 4:00 pm |
| Registration Start Date | 10-07-2019 |
| Capacity | 60 |
| Registered | 37 |
| Available place | 23 |
| Individual Price | Four hundred thousand Vietnam Dong |
Conducted by two famous experts in the English language teaching field and keynote/featured speakers at the upcoming VietTESOL International Convention in Hue next month, this series of workshops aim to extend your insights into the following topics:
- Action Research: A Good Idea for Practicing Teachers
- Professional Development and Capacity Building for ELT Professionals
- How Reading Works and Implications for Effective Reading Development
Prof. Fredricka L. Stoller and Prof. William Grabe from Northern Arizona University, USA, will conduct three 3 hour workshops on Friday-Saturday, October 4-5, 2019 at the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University Hanoi for ONLY 35 university level English teachers, Ph.D. and MA TESOL students from Hanoi and other places. The workshop series are co-sponsored by VietTESOL, RELO Vietnam and ULIS-VNU Hanoi.
The registration and payment deadline is October 3, 2019.
| Event Date | 10-04-2019 8:30 am |
| Event End Date | 10-05-2019 11:30 am |
| Capacity | 35 |
| Registered | 33 |
| Available place | 2 |
| Cut off date | 10-03-2019 2:00 pm |
| Individual Price | Three hundred thousands Vietnamese Dong/ 3 workshops |
In this workshop, you will learn several strategies that you can take into your own classroom to help support students struggling with English in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. These strategies add to a teacher's toolbox of techniques to allow planning for English learning through assessing students and collaborating with their co-teachers (if any).
| Event Date | 07-22-2019 |
| Event End Date | 07-24-2019 |
| Capacity | 40 |
| Registered | 51 |
| Available place | -11 |
| Cut off date | 07-19-2019 11:55 pm |
| Individual Price | Two hundred thousand VND/ 3 workshops |
While high school teachers have all the passion and energy for student success in an English language classroom, in reality they experience time constraints and other difficulties to equip them with decent written and communicative skills. In this workshop, you will collaborate with other educators to identify such problems and together explore possible solutions using provided technological and applications. You will walk away with a set of technological tools and insights on their pedagogical uses, techniques and ideas on lesson planning (that you help designing) that facilitate and assess student skills development.
| Event Date | 07-15-2019 8:30 am |
| Event End Date | 07-17-2019 11:30 am |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Registered | 50 |
| Available place | -20 |
| Cut off date | 07-14-2019 |
| Individual Price | Two hundred thousand VND/ 5 sessions |