Conducted by an American English teacher trainer, the formative assessment course is designed to be an interactive virtual classroom experience for teachers. The course will be run asynchronously using Canvas and Zoom as the two platforms. The six-week course is designed to engage teachers who have both limited and high levels of education on formative assessment. Participants should expect to be active in the class and the final week will involve participant presentations showcasing how they may utilize formative assessment through lesson plans. Each class will be structured to incorporate formative assessments to help build understanding on how they may be used. Teachers who attend and participate in each class will receive a certificate of completion.

The course will be divided into two groups of 25 participants each. One group is exclusive for K-12 English language teachers and the other for college/university English language teachers. You can choose your preferred group by indicating your primary employment category in the registration form.

The tuition fee for this course is VND 1,000,000 (one million Vietnamese Dong) to be paid in advance. Successful participants whose attendance is 80% or above will be reimbursed 50% or VND 500,000.

Participants in this course has chance to win a prepaid ticket to participate in TESOL 2020 Virtual Convention, July 16-18, 2020. More information can be found here: https://www.tesol.org/conventiononline2020

Join us for the webinar titled “Online Assessment in English teaching” - the third webinar in a series on Applying Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching English language online, hosted by VietTESOL Association and sponsored by RELO.

This webinar will be specially cohosted by Ms. Huong Nguyen - Lecturer and Middle-level Manager at the University of Languages and International Studies, Vietnam National University, and Ms. Hien Ho - M.A. of TESOL and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.

There are maximum 100 participants in each webinar and slots are available first comes, first served. 

In this session, participants will explore methods and tools for assessment and evaluation innovation for both Formative and Summative assessment for online courses.

Webinar: How to manage online classroom effectively

Time: 9.30- 11.00 a.m., Tuesday 31^st March, 2020

Join us for the webinar titled “How to manage online classroom effectively” in a series of three webinars on Applying Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching English language online, hosted by VietTESOL Association and sponsored by RELO. This webinar will be conducted by Mr. Duc Pham, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.

There are maximum 100 participants in each webinar and slots are available first comes, first served. Please register here: ………………….. 

In this session, participants will be shown effective ways to encourage the students' interaction and monitor students’ progress on an ongoing basis in the online teaching context. Mr. Duc will share helpful teaching resources with English language teachers so as to encourage students’ participation, yet effectively manage their workload.

Learning online may leave the students the feeling of isolated and unmotivated, which asks teachers to have more interactive activities in order to foster a sense of learning motivation among students. Ms. Ngoc Nguyen and Ms. Hien Ho, in this session, will share their expertise and experience of creating more effectively interactive lessons to help teachers increase student engagement as well as maximize student learning.

In this webinar, participants will be shown ways to deliver engaging synchronous online English lessons using different user - friendly Edtech platforms. Moreover, some advice on what teachers need to start teaching English online and a comparison of video conferencing platforms will be given with the audience members participating in interactive activities designed by those tools throughout the webinar. 

This workshop will explore ways teachers can use peer activities to enhance comprehension and increase fluency in reading and foster creativity in writing. Participants will learn about a buddy reading and writing approach that has students reading a story together, identifying a plot point to change and re-writing the story based on the change.

This workshop will introduce project-based learning in terms of both teaching practices and project design. Participants will be introduced to the seven teaching practices related to project-based learning and the seven elements of project design, including evaluation of driving questions and considerations of the difference between project-based learning and “doing a project

In this presentation, the audience will be shown some poems and a short story and given examples of how to use them in a language learning classroom to build various skills such as: pronunciation, critical thinking and discussion, cultural awareness, and authentic language use. Audience members will be asked to participate and share opinions throughout the presentation.

WEBINAR No 4:

Title: Strategies for Learning and Retention of New Vocabulary

Time: 10:00 – 12:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 29, 2020

Join Randi Littman for the webinar entitled Strategies for Learning and Retention of New Vocabulary to explore approaches that university and high school students can acquire essential vocabulary for their academic success.

In this webinar, we will explore strategies and tips for learning and remembering new words in a meaningful, interactive, and memorable way that is guaranteed to hold students’ interest.  The workshop demonstrates vocabulary learning, repeated usage, and contextualization. 

The participants will also learn how to set students up for autonomous learning.  By reviewing some of the exercises and activities together during the webinar, teachers will have first-hand knowledge and practice with these methodologies.