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= =  ** Zigen English Teachers Program Schedule for August 2016 **

9:00 Opening Ceremony Welcome
 * Educational Bureau Officials
 * Manton, Director ZTTP
 * Wiseman, Asst Director ZTTP
 * Staff

10:15 Overview of Program
 * PPT
 * Pass out the schedule for the first week

10:30 Closing: group sing
 * o “Do You Speak English?”
 * o “We Are Teaching in ShiJiazhuang”

10:45 Sign-up and Registration forms
 * Sign-up for oral interview
 * Registration/interview forms pass out

11:00-1pm Oral Interviews
 * Oral interviews

1-2:15 Working LUNCH
 * Before lunch, Interviewers review results and tentatively assign participants to Group 1 or 2.
 * During lunch, discussion re: placement and final decisions.
 * Staff types up the class lists and tapes them on the doors of our classrooms.

2:30 Afternoon Session
 * Teach “Concentric Circles” & “Who is Like Me?”
 * Set up student-to-student interviews in the classrooms. Ts brainstorm the questions.

Day 1 || 8/5 || AM || * Introductions Songs for learning English || Day 1 || 8/12 || AM || Teaching Grammar Teaching grammar in context || My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals ||
 * Tentative Academic Schedule for Summer 2016 (subject to change) **
 * Week 1
 * Program overview
 * Expectations & Goal Setting
 * What makes a successful language learner?
 * What makes a good teacher?
 * Diagnostic test: placement of teachers based on English proficiency and school placement ||
 * ||  || PM || * Getting acquainted activities using English
 * o o Games
 * o o Songs ||
 * Day 2 || 8/8 || AM || Communicative teaching
 * Using pair and group work (ch. 12)
 * Using visual aids (ch. 7)
 * Using blackboard ||
 * ||  || PM || Teacher Talk
 * Asking questions (ch. 2)
 * Eliciting (ch. 14)
 * Using English in the Classroom (ch. 19) ||
 * Day 3 || 8/9 || AM || Teaching pronunciation (ch.10)
 * Diagnostic test
 * How sounds are formed
 * Games and activities ||
 * ||  || PM || Teaching speaking
 * Error correction (ch. 16)
 * Role plays (ch. 20)
 * Information gap activities
 * Storytelling: oral narratives
 * Asking for and giving directions/instructions ||
 * Day 4 || 8/10 || AM || Teaching Listening (ch. 17)
 * Oral dictations
 * Using films
 * Cloze activities w/ music ||
 * ||  || PM || Teaching vocabulary (ch. 1) ||
 * Day 5 || 8/11 || AM || Communicative activities (ch. 18) ||
 * ||  || PM || Games for learning English
 * Week 2
 * Presenting structures (ch. 3)
 * Practicing structures (ch 6) ||
 * ||  || PM || Communicative activities for teaching grammar
 * Day 2 || 8/15 || AM || Teaching reading
 * Teaching basic reading (ch. 9)
 * Reading activities (ch. 15) ||
 * ||  || PM || Reading activities ||
 * Day 3 || 8/16 || AM || Planning a lesson (ch. 8)
 * Scope & sequence of textbooks
 * Using teacher guides w/ textbooks ||
 * ||  || PM || Using ppts & realia & other materials ||
 * Day 4 || 8/17 || AM || Teaching writing (ch. 13) & error correction ||
 * ||  || PM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * Day 5 || 8/18 || AM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * ||  || PM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * Day 6 || 8/19 || AM || My Experience in this training session: reflective practice