CHN40170 Teaching Practice

Academic Year 2023/2024

This module is dedicated to putting into pedagogical practice the knowledge acquired in the modules CHN40150 and CHN40160. Teaching Practice uses metalinguistic knowledge of the modern Chinese language along with basics in CFL to provide students with strategies to address L2 learners’ most common challenges in acquiring Chinese while incorporating culture elements. This module aims at providing students with opportunities to teach Chinese in a real classroom, with guidance and feedback from tutors and mentor teachers.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, students should:

1. Complete a full four-phase progressive cycle from observation to teaching demonstration.
2. Establish teaching philosophies of their own.
3. Be able to design inclusive teaching plans that assist students from different levels and background to work towards desired learning outcomes.
4. Be able to understand key concepts and theoretical framework and how this knowledge is implied in different teaching contexts.
5. Be able to critically reflect and provide feedback to observations of teaching activities conducted by others and themselves.
6. Build a clear understanding of the identity as a teacher of Chinese language and culture and understand how a teacher's knowledge influences students’ learning outcomes.
7. Build a cultural awareness and have it embedded in their knowledge base.


Indicative Module Content:

Lectures and seminars
Required readings
Observation sessions
Co-teaching and segment teaching
Tutorials guided by mentors
Teaching demonstration (minor)
Reflection sessions and response papers

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

14
Specified Learning Activities

100
Autonomous Student Learning

308
Total

422
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Students will be provided with an observation schedule by the commence date of Spring trimester. The schedule will be overseen by the programme director, module coordinator of CHN40170, and the IICS programme office.

MA TCLC students are expected to engage in observation during the first four weeks of their field activities, making detailed notes on these observations. Ideally, this observation period should include a broad experience of a wide range of classes. After four weeks, it is expected that they will team teach with their respective cooperating teacher. After 8 weeks, it is expected that they will be able to teach on their own (with the continued professional support from their cooperating teacher).

All students are required to attend in-person lectures and seminars at UCD in week 1, 2, 4, 6 and 12.

 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Continuous Assessment: 25% Report on observations (week 5)
20% Lesson plan (week 8)
 Varies over the Trimester n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

45
Presentation: 25% minor demonstration at UCD (week 9-10)
30% final on-site teaching demonstration in schools (week 13-14)
 Varies over the Trimester n/a Standard conversion grade scale 40% No

55

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Mario De Grandis Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Lan Li Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Xiaodong Li Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Caitríona Osborne Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 
Spring
      
Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Wed 10:00 - 11:50