3. Contexts
✤ France
✤ 23 students teaching 9 hours per week, in school Mon, Tues all day, Thurs morning;
at university Wed, Thurs afternoon, Friday
✤ 12h ICT course based on this telecollaboration
✤ classroom research project which may be an extension of collaboration, or unrelated
✤ Netherlands
✤ 14 students teaching 20+ hours per week
✤ ICT course based on this telecollaboration
✤ research paper (unrelated)
4. Goals
• intercultural communication - experiential learning: teachers
try out tools/tasks/ways of communicating that they can later
use with their learners
• reflection on telecollaborative tasks for secondary school
classroom EFL learners
• ongoing professional development objective: set own targets
for continuing learning as new teachers of English in Europe
5. Groups
10 groups of 3 or 4 student teachers
1. one or two NL, one or two FR
2. match teacher goals and classes as much as
possible
3. allow for differing levels of engagement
6. Activities
1. input from instructors on
intercultural collaboration
telecollaborative tasks with secondary school classroom learners
2. learner collaboration (or teacher collaboration only?)
small-scale learner exchange: (e.g., one message from each side, then summary)
teacher collaboration: novice-expert mentoring discussions where more experienced teachers discuss
issues identified by novices (use of L1/L2, textbooks, evaluation, classroom management). Novice
implements recommendations and reports back
3. final task - not a written report/research paper
audiovisual account of work accomplished - slides with audio, video?
presentation to group of lessons learned with links to materials/resources/learner productions?
7. Kick-off meeting: 2 December
1. Linda and Shona introduce institutions
2. one student teacher from each side describes
teaching/training context
3. discussion of personal learning objectives leading
to first assignment
