Theme Five: Evaluating a Program Shen Chen School of Education The University of Newcastle

Review: Four stages of Curriculum Development  Curriculum development consists of four main stages: Curriculum Design. Curriculum Implementation. Curriculum Evaluation. Curriculum Innovation. * Is there anything wrong???!!!

Questions: Why do we need to evaluate a language program? What should we evaluate? How should we evaluate?

Purposes of Evaluation:  Diagnose source of error  Ascertain a point of teaching  Identify strengths and weakness  Compare objectives and outcomes  Innovate the curriculum

Aspects of Evaluation  Social needs  Individual needs  Objectives  Teaching content  Learning process  Materials and activities  Assessment tasks  Learning outcomes

How to evaluate  Self-evaluation  Peer-evaluation  External evaluation  Students evaluation

Workshop:  Evaluate the unit plan designed by your peer groups.  Make suggestions for improvement.  Can you do the assessment task of this course?

Assessment Task: Program design  Prepare five detailed lesson plans for a sequence of CSL lessons as a unit suitable for a future class that you wish to teach. Be careful to provide a brief description of the class and classroom and show how you would incorporate motivation, communication, assessment and support for the achieving of your stated outcomes. Due date: to be discussed Value: 1 unit 100%