Materials Evaluation and Design - Week 14 - Textbook Unit Design Prototype

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 14 of the course Materials Evaluation and Design. In our final class of the course you will present your textbook unit design prototypes.

Today's Goals:

• Present your textbook unit prototype to your peers.
• Describe the philosophy of learning and materials development that influenced your design decisions.
• Reflect on your experiences preparing this assignment (and in the rest of the course) that have added to your knowledge and thoughts about the role of materials in the ELT.

Guiding Questions:

• What are my criteria for an effective ELT textbook?
• What dilemmas and challenges did I face in the materials writing process and what strategies did I use to overcome them?
• What are my takeaway learnings from this course?

Warm up: Holiday BS Game

In this game you will learn about the origin of some popular holiday symbols. You will hear three explanations given by your partners. Only one of the explanations will be correct. You need to answer the question:

• Does it sound true or does it sound like BS?

• Topic 1: Origin of the Cristmas Tree
• Student A: CLICK HERE
• Student B: CLICK HERE
• Student C: CLICK HERE

• Topic 2: Origin of Santa Clause
• Student A: CLICK HERE
• Student B: CLICK HERE
• Student C: CLICK HERE

• Topic 3: Origin of Santa's Elves
• Student A: CLICK HERE
• Student B: CLICK HERE
• Student C: CLICK HERE

• Topic 4: Origin of Mistletoe
• Student A: CLICK HERE
• Student B: CLICK HERE
• Student C: CLICK HERE

• Topic 5: Origin of the Christmas Stocking
• Student A: CLICK HERE
• Student B: CLICK HERE
• Student C: CLICK HERE

Task 1: Unit Prototype Presentations 

Now we will see the presentations of your textbook unit prototypes. After the presentation, use the following prompts to give feedback to your partners.

• What caught my attention about your presentation was ...
• Something I think is effective about your instructional design proposal is...
• I noticed... and that makes me think ...
• Something you might want to consider is ...
• I am curious about ... so I want to ask you ...