Good practice – supporting students: professional and academic literacies
International Education Institute
Running parallel to modules on the MSc TESOL is an optional strand called the Professional and Academic Literacies (PALS for short).
This is a weekly set of hour-long workshops delivered in teaching weeks in Semesters 1 and 2, and occasional workshops over the summer. In the Professional Literacies section, which falls predominantly in Semester 2, we draw on the experiences of the previous year’s students’ experiences on the job market/search for a PhD place and focus on such areas as:
Videos recorded with the last year’s students explaining the highs and lows of their job hunting experience
- CV & cover letter writing
- Identifying trustworthy employers from online advertisements
- Skype interviews
- Sample recorded teaching sessions
- Live teaching sessions
- Portfolios of practice
- Teacher training options
- Setting up career information sessions with employers abroad
- Preparing PhD proposals for applied linguistics/TESOL/education
In so doing, we build on the Careers Centre offerings e.g. students take the generic CV writing training offered by Careers and then we extend this by examining TESOL-career specific features.
For further details contact: Janie Brooks at [email protected]