Professional Practice I - Week 9 - Data Processing, Analysis, and Interpretation 2

Introduction: Hello and welcome to Week 9 of the Professional Practice I of the BA in English Teaching at ULACIT term IIIC 2022. In today's class we will continue looking at techiniques for anlayzing and interpreting qualitative data that will help you draw conclusions and understandings about your study. We will also participate in the second half of a Teacher Development Workshop about teaching vocabulary. 

Today's Goals:

• Apply codes to qualitative data to identify emerging themes.
• Represent your data findings in graphical and narrative form.
• Participate in a number of practical activities to introduce and review vocabulary.

Guiding Questions:

• How is qualitative data analysis a bottom-up process?
• How can I represent my findings from qualitative data analysis.?
• What are some useful strategies to introduce and review new vocabulary words?

Warm Up: Say Three Things

In each round one of your partners will be the speaker. He or she will choose a topic from the list below and say three things related to that topic.

• one thing he/she likes
• one thing he/she does not like
• one thing he/she does not have strong feelings about

Then the partners have to guess which is which. Then a new partner chooses another topic and says their three things.

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Task 1: Weekly Check-In

It's week nine/ten! There is only one more month left in the course. Let's find out what you have been up to since our last meeting.

• How were your site visits this week?

• Tell us about your highlights:

• Celebrations
• Challenges
• Questions/Doubts

• Tell us some specifics about one of the lessons or activities you taught:

• What was the class?
• What was the topic?
• What were your aims or objectives?
• What did you intend for students to do?
• What actually happened?
• How do you feel about it?

• What are your responsibilities for next week?

• How many hours have you accumulted in your bitácoras?

Task 2: Draft 2

We will take time on Friday to for careful, one-on-one feedback on your second draft and support on what is coming for the final draft. 

• Natalia's Proposal
• Reflection: Take a moment to review the rubric at the end the document below. Regarding your Draft 1, which aspects of the rubric do you think you may need to improve? Why? What doubts do you have about your proposal?

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

• Sharing and Feedback: Share your proposal with us. 

• Share your screen. 
• Walk us through your proposal.
• What are your doubts or problem areas?
• CLICK HERE for peer feedback criteria.

Task 3: Analyzing Qualitative Data

Last class we talked about data collection methods. Now let's talk about what to do with the data once you have collected it. 

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Task 4: Coding Our Data and Representing Our Findings

Last week we learned the basics of coding. This week we will take the process to the next step to represent our findings both graphically and in narrative form. Click the group link below and follow the teacher's instructions.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Teacher Development Workshop

Practical Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary

Task 4: Vocabulary Workshop

Let's continue with our workshop. Click the link below and follow your teacher's instructions.

• Group Link: CLICK HERE

Your Turn to Discuss!

Instructions: Now talk with your partners about your own experiences and ideas for vocabulary teaching. 

• What is challenging about teaching vocabulary?
• What vocabulary activities have you participated in as a student or used as a teacher?
• What insights have you gained about vocabulary teaching through this workshop?
• Are any of the ideas here applicable to the classes you are teaching this term?