Planning lessons for "the new normal"
As part of the standards of practice for any teacher,
being informed, aware and reflecting on the important issues and challenges in
the profession as a whole is an essential part of all teacher education and
development. In this event, we will exchange ideas of what issues need to be
born in mind when planning our lessons in the “new” teaching context.
We are really happy to start 2022 with our customary Summer Course aiming at helping our teachers of English community here in Peru.
SMART is an acronym that is often used in business as a guide for setting business objectives, but can be applied to language outcomes. The "new normal" in our country is something blurred and although we were the last country in Latin America to resume in-person classes, we are not sure the conditions are the best to support teaching to a group of students who have been affected both emotionally and academically by the pandemic.
However, I believe we can learn from our mistakes, improve the strategies we learned and used and get ready for whatever situation may come up. This is the rationale behind this summer course where we expect to exchange ideas and enrich our repertoire with what our colleagues have to share.
Paradigms, mindsets and tools have changed now that most of us are teaching online. The "new normal" is being planned as hybrid teaching (online and in person) and that brings about its own challenges. We´ll discuss some of these and we´ll all try to work out solutions to overcome them in the two workshops of this session.
