School based teacher development programme (sbtd) introduction

participation and success in learning. 
UNIT 12: RECORDING PROGRESS IN LEARNING
 
It is important that you, as an English teacher, keep records of your students’ progress that you can use to plan the next steps 
of their learning. This Unit shows how a list of test marks will tell you little, but how annotated samples of students’ work or 
test marks with comments can give you a much better picture of their progress and thus enable you to plan more effective 
next steps. Keeping a range of records will allow you to identify more clearly which students need extra support and what 
kind of support they need. This Unit also explores how important it is that you have clear learning outcomes for each lesson 
and are clear about what evidence you need to be sure that a student knows and understands what you have taught them. 
MODULE 4: ISSUES SPECIFIC TO TEACHING AND 
LEARNING IN ENGLISH 
UNIT 13: DEVELOPING LISTENING SKILLS
 
Listening comprehension is often one of the skills that students least like to work on. This Unit focuses on what you can do to 
make the listening process in the classroom easier for your students. It considers how you might engage them in 
conversations about what they actually do when they listen, and what strategies they might use to make them more successful 
listeners who are more able to understand unfamiliar discourse. 
UNIT 14: DEVELOPING READING SKILLS
 
In this Unit you are encouraged to consider the thought process that happens when you yourself approach an unfamiliar text. 
The Unit encourages you to talk about the reading strategies a good language learner uses in order to develop their reading 
skills. The Unit also considers how newspapers can be used in the classroom to develop both linguistic and intercultural 
knowledge of English. 
UNIT 15: DEVELOPING FLUENCY IN SPOKEN ENGLISH
 
In this Unit you will consider how to teach students systematically how to say what they want to say and how to encourage 
spontaneous talk in the English classroom. You will also consider the impact of introducing an element of competition into 
lessons.