Needs Analysis

​Análisis de Necesidades

Septiembre 02 de 2022

Multiple Choice

The role of needs analysis in any language teaching course is __________.

• invaluable

• overrated

• often applied

• unnecessary

Open Ended

¿Están de acuerdo con esta afirmación? ¿Por qué?

Needs analysis is the first step in curriculum design for it can provide validity and relevancy for all the follow-up curriculum design activities.

​Needs Analysis

​Activities involved in gathering information that will serve as the basis for developing a curriculum that will meet the learning needs of a particular group of learners.

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• Basis for designing tests, compiling materials, designing teaching activities, and evaluating strategies, as well as for reevaluating the precision and accuracy of the original needs analysis

• indivisible part of systematic curriculum design​

• Nunan: Parameters of a course of study: criteria ​and rationale for grouping learners, the selection and sequencing of content, methodology, course length, and intensity and duration

Open Ended

1. Target Situation Analysis (TSA)

2. Present Situation Analysis (PSA)

3. Hutchinson and Waters’ Model

4. Dudley-Evans and St John’s Model of Needs Analysis

​Teachers as knowledge professionals

Open Ended

"Teaching is the mother of all professions"

​Pillars

• Knowledge and skills base

• Status and standing of the profession

• Peer control

• Respons​ibility and autonomy

• Perceived prestige and societal value​

OECD's TALIS website

​The Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)

Open Ended

"There are good arguments for considering teacher knowledge, especially pedagogical knowledge, a main pillar of teacher professionalism"

• General pedagogical knowledge

• Content knowledge

• Pedagogical content knowledge

• Curriculum knowledge

• Knowledge of learners and of their characteristics

• Knowledge of educational contexts

• Knowledge of educational purposes, ends, and values​

​Shulman's model of knowledge base of teaching and further development

Open Ended

"Expert teachers are not simply owners of deep professional knowledge, they also know how to apply knowledge adequately in different pedagogical contexts and situations"

• Theoretical-scientific knowledge skills

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• Practice-based knowledge skills

• Knowledge-based skills

​Knowledge base skills

Poll

¿Cuál de las siguientes estrategias considera la más adecuada para apoyar el aprendizaje y el intercambio pedagógico entre los docentes?

• Anchoring pedagogical knowledge in qualifications frameworks and professional standards

• Ensuring a sufficient coverage of pedagogical topics in initial teacher education and continuing professional learning

• Creating opportunities to experiment and probe knowledge in practice

• Enhancing reflective practice and continuous engagement with research among the teaching profession

• Supporting the knowledge exchange and collective reflection among teachers and schools