2003 Teacher Retreats

2003 Teacher Retreats - Context and Focus

This year’s Retreats take place as the Law Faculty prepares to open its new Graduate Law School and to integrate the teaching of undergraduate students in the Law, Politics and International Business and Law Divisions in 2004.
For us, this means that from April 2004 our English classes will have students from all three Divisions studying together. It also means that we will need to co-ordinate much more the objectives of the courses we teach, so that we can provide a much clearer overall framework of levels and paths of development for students as they progress through the English curriculum toward jobs and graduate study.

The two Retreats this year give us an opportunity to discuss together how we can best move from where we are now to this more integrated curriculum for 2004.

The focus for the first Retreat will be:
• Sharing ideas and questions from our classes so far this year
• Reviewing the new TOEIC leveling system, suggested course objectives, and course progressions introduced for 2003

The focus of the second Retreat will be:
• To work on formulating a common framework of course objectives, leveling, and progressions between levels and years that fulfills the demands of the Law Faculty, while we continue to collaborate on developing our own ways of teaching.