Highlight from CTLE Workshop: Academic Culture As Content: Self-Assessment in a CLIL Classroom

On 7^th of March, 2018 over 35 academic and administrative staff participated in CTLE’s workshop, “Academic Culture As Content: Self-Assessment in a CLIL Classroom”.

In this workshop, Prof. Chris Hale shared with us self-assessment as a possible solution to engage student in their own learning. In addition to student autonomy, agency, and metacognitive awareness of learning, it is a way to encourage critical thinking and responsibility – two major tenets of Active Learning, and traits that will serve students well in their lives after graduation. This presentation aimed to conceptualize the effectiveness of self-assessment within the greater context of the English medium liberal arts university in East Asia, and presented a practical approach to student assessment by examining data from CLIL-based classrooms. (Slides available for UMAC students and staff: https://goo.gl/E3juLb )

About the speaker:
Prof. Chris Carl HALE is the Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Global Communication and Language at Akita International University, Japan and formerly the Academic Director of the Tokyo Center of the New York University (NYU) School of Professional Studies (SPS). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses related to language acquisition and teacher training in the United States and in Japan for over 20 years.