Professional Development

Guo An Elementary School 國安國小

Head School for the FET Program

Guo An is located in the Xitun district of Taichung city and is the Head School of the Foreign English Teacher program. Principal Hsieh and Director Liao will be responsible for collecting data from our schools and assessing the work that we complete as part of our Professional Development Program. This data will then be used to calculate our final score which is used to determine our annual bonus.

Professional Development Coordinators

Ian Garner
Head Coordinator
(Mountain)

Amanda Readal
Assistant Coordinator
(Sea)

Caitlyn Klein
Assistant Coordinator
(City)

Orientation Sessions - August/September 2022

Due to the pandemic it has once again been very difficult to plan our orientation sessions for this school year.

Teach Taiwan and the coordinator team have therefore put together a short program that we hope will allow new teachers to gain an understanding of the education system and what it is like to work as an English teacher in Taiwan.
Note that some of the sessions will be held LIVE using Google Meet, some sessions will be pre-recorded, and the session on September 21st will be 'in-person'.

Date	Topic	Time	Presenter	Location
August 31st	Welcome to Taichung FET Program General Overview & Introduction	1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Ian Garner	Google Meet
September 7th	Competence Based Lessons Backward Design	Watch at Leisure	Alex Andrade	Pre-Recorded Video
September 14th	Designing Speaking and Learning Activities	1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Fulbright	TBC
September 21st	Elementary & JH Curricula Activities & Resources	9.00 am - 12.00 pm	Ian Garner	Taichung Elementary School
September 21st	Whole Body Learning Activities in the Classroom	1.00 pm - 4.00 pm	Caitlyn Klein	Taichung Elementary school
September 28th	Requirements of the Head School PD Lesson Plan Task	1.30 pm - 4.00 pm	Pamela Lee	Google Meet

Orientation Documents / First week of school administration

FET Orientation Handbook

FET Introduction Packet

First Week - FET and School checklist

Weekly Reflection Form

List of Teachers and Schools (excel)

Professional Development - Monthly Meetings

For the second sememster monthly meetings we would like to try and get the whole group together as much as possible. Therefore meetings will be held at a location that is central to most FETs.

Semester Two - ALL TEACHERS: Monthly PD Meetings

Date	Topic	Time	Presenter	Location
February 22nd	Planning & Teaching Foundational Phonics Skills	2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Liam Gomez-Kervin	Jhong Hua Elementary School
March 22nd	Promoting English Speaking Skills & Assessment Strategies	1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	1. Robert Lee 2. Mario Niel Villarias	Jhong Hua Elementary School
April 19th	Learning by Doing Interactive Language Teaching Strategies towards Student-Centeredness	2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Kathleen Sarmiento	Jhong Hua Elementary School
May 17th	Using Picture Books to integrate listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing	2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Ting WEN-YING	Jhong Hua Elementary School
June TBC	Topic TBC	TBC	TBC	TBC

Documents for Competence-Oriented Lesson Planning:

Blank Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan Rubric

English Curriculum Guidelines (Complete)

Elementary Excel Document for Lesson planning (Core Competencies / Learning Performance / Learning Content)

Junior High Excel Document for lesson planning (Core Competencies / Learning Performance / Learning Content)

Senior High Excel Document for Lesson Planning (Core Competencies / Learning performance / Learning Content)

Writing clear learning objectives

Elementary and Junior High Vocabulary List

Curriculum Guidelines (all subjects) for CLIL Planning.

Weekly Reflections

In order to keep communication up to date, all FETs are required to complete a weekly teaching reflection.
The reflection form is a requirement of the Head School and contributes 20% towards the FETs final performance score.

By completing the reflection form and submitting to your PD coordinator we aim to share good practice and also solve any problems if and when they arise.

The reflection form should be emailed to your coordinator by the end of the week (Friday 4pm).
The coordinator will then review the reflections and if there are any items that you would like to discuss then he/she will contact you before the end of the following Wednesday (4pm).
*Click image to download form.

General Administration Documents:

General Guidelines MOE Document