Talk:Shirley Jin

-- Lu Gao (talk) 23:50, 2 May 2016 (EDT)

Hi, Shirley,

I really enjoy reviewing your mini course. In order to give you a comprehensive feedback, I also look closely at your portfolio page and introduction page. You selected a very meaningful topic of providing public speaking instructors a solution to facilitate a multicultural class with both ESL and other mainstream public speaking learners.As more and more foreign students go abroad to pursue their higher level of education, it is a big challenge to public speaking instructor to monitor a multicultural classroom .I really like your topic and I have a chance to know who are ESl students and how to identify them. Overall, your min course is well organized , and it is easy to navigate. Especially, the needs assessment are aligned with learning outcomes.

I liked/ What works well...

On your portfolio page:

I really like the way that you brought your own authentic teaching experience in public speaking when you address instructional problem. You are very thoughtful to embed "Shirley's mini-course "link before references so that learners can go to introduction page immediately. Otherwise, learners need to scroll up to the top in order to review next page.

on introduction page

The Introduction works well to grab learners attention to think about what is the dilemma in the public speaking course. In the introduction page, you discusses several scenarios that instructors may encounter in undergraduate-level public speaking courses.You analyze two main factors that hinders instructors monitor public speaking classroom.One factor is due to student's different ethnicity; another one factor is because that ESL student have difficulty in understanding speech guidelines.

on Unit 1

Learning objective of unit 1 is explicitly elaborated. The main purpose is to identify Who are ESL students via levels of education, learning styles and cultural anxiety. I especially like the investigation and learning activities that are coherently aligned with learning objectives.It gives instructors' opportunity to investigate what type of ESL learners they have in regular classroom.Three investigations are well designed and connected with each others for not only this unit but also further discussion in the following unit.

Have you considered:

I know the intent of you mini course is to provide teaching guidelines for public speaking instructor, could you put the exact topic in your portfolio page so that readers can identify the content immediately?
You talk about "mainstream " student and ESL student. Mainstreaming in education context, it means to educate students with special needs in the regular classroom.From my point of view, do you consider to define mainstream student in your context so that it won't be confused.

Could you add some visual aids to your introduction page?

In the learning activities, I am confused with the layout of table. Is there any room for participate to fill it out? Have you consider to put header in the table since there are three types of ESL learners with different levels of reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Above is my feedback. Hopefully it will help you. I am looking forward to see more progress of your mini course.

Lu