Final paper

For the final paper, you will write a statement of your teaching principles in which you discuss your beliefs, values, assumptions around language teaching and learning, and connect these to scholarly literature, your personal experiences, and observations. As part of the assignment, create a lesson plan that demonstrates how your teaching principles are enacted in your practice. You will be evaluated on your ability to articulate how the approaches, theories, and research findings discussed in this course, and your experiences in observing and teaching shape your development as a teacher. Your paper should be at least 2000 words excluding references and the lesson plan. The quality of your argumentation will be evaluated, in part, on the extent to which you reference literature including and beyond what is assigned in the course.

Rubric

You present your ideas in an organized manner that is coherent to the reader

Cohesion across paragraphs and sections of the paper;

Very organized and coherent across paragraphs.

(5 points)

Somewhat organized and/or mostly coherent (3-4 points)

Poorly organized / not coherent

(1-2 points)

Cohesion within paragraphs: sentences make sense, ideas are not conflated or jumbled.

Yes

(5 points)

Mostly

(3-4 points)

Not really

(1-2 points)

Your perspective is supported by literature and concepts in the course

Many ideas or a few ideas really deeply

(5 points)

Some ideas

(3-4 points)

Few ideas

(1-2 points)

Your perspective reflects your observations and teaching experience

(5 points)

(3-4 points)

(1-2 points)

Your formatting, mechanics, and language are appropriate for graduate-level work.

Grammar / vocabulary; headings, margins, indentations, APA formatting of citations, punctuation

(5 points)

Some lapses

(3-4 points)

Many lapses

(1-2 points)