Influencing The Future of ELT in Vietnam: The English Teacher Competencies Framework

Influencing the Future of
ELT in Vietnam
The English Teacher Competencies Framework
Diana Dudzik, PhD

Senior Fellow
NFL2020 Project
May 17, 2013
DaNang, Vietnam
National Symposium on Using the ETCF
Monday, May 20, 13

IF Vietnam needs English to
succeed regionally &
internationallly...
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IF language USE is the priority...
Goal:
“... by 2020 most Vietnamese students...will be
able to use a foreign language confidently in
their daily communication, their study and work
in an integrated, multi-cultural and multi-lingual
environment, making foreign languages a
comparative advantage of development for
Vietnamese people in the cause of
industrialization and modernization for the
country”.
(Government Decision 1400)
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IF...
• All foreign language teaching and learning needs
rennovation (Decision 1400)
• There are new policies for
• Student proficiency (CEFR-based
benchmarks)
• Teacher proficiency (B2 to C1)
• Primary English beginning in Grade 3
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Then we need to ask...
How do we address the quality of

English teaching in Vietnam?
How do we address the quality of language
teacher training curriculum?
How do we address the needs of the 80,000
public school English teachers in Vietnam?
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IF well-equipped
teachers are the key...
IF
Educational change is
dependent upon
teacher change
(Fullan, 2001)
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Then we need to ask, what
are well-equipped teachers?
What do they need to know?
What do they need to be able to
do?
What do they need to help students
do?
What do they need to foster in their
students?
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IF we’re educating for the
21st Century...
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Then we need to ask...
What kind of English

teachers does Vietnam
need for the early 21st
Century?
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Where’s the blueprint?
What are we
building?
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What’s our roadmap?
Where are we
going?
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What tools do we have?
What tools do we need?
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The Blueprint:
Teacher
Competencies
Tools to improve outcomes (Katz & Snow, 2009)

Common language for talking about teaching &
learning (Harris & Carr, 1996)
Content - Knowledge, skills & dispositions
Performance - Degree or quality of proficiency
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Developing Vietnam’s ETCF
Officially
Decision 1400 Policies approved
& December 21,
NFL2020 Goals 2012
Collaboration Drafting Reviews Revisions Adoption
US & BC MOET
consultancies VNIES
Monday, May 20, 13

Domains
Competencies
Performance Indicators
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5
Domains
1.
Knowledge of
Subject
4. Attitudes & Values
2. 3.
Knowledge Knowledge
of of
Teaching Learners
5.
Learning in & from Practice
& informed by Context
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Domain 1: Knowledge of Language, Language
Learning & Language Content & Curriculum
1.1a Language proficiency
1 1.1b Working Knowledge of CEF
1.2 Language as a System
1.3 How Languages are
Learned
1.4 Cultures of English-
speaking Countries
1.5 Academic Content in
English
1.6 Language Curriculum
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Domain 2: Knowledge of Teaching
2.1 Language Teaching

Methodology
2.2 Lesson Planning
2.3 Conducting a Lesson
2.4 Assessment of 2
Language Learning
2.5 Resources
2.6 Technology
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Domain 3: Knowledge of Language
Learners
3.1 Understanding Learners’
Development to Encourage
& Motivate
3.2 Recognizing Learner
Language to Inform
Instruction
3.3 Reflecting on Learner’s
Values & Prior Learning
3
3.4 Developing Learners’
Creativity & Critical
Thinking
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Domain 4: Professional Attitudes & Values
in Language Teaching Processes of teacher
development implicit in
framework, employing
“apprenticeship of
observation”
(Lortie, 1975, p. 61)
4.1 Professionalism
4.2 Cooperation,
Collaboration & Teamwork
4.3 Professional Development 4 4
& Life-long Learning
4
4.4 Contributing to the
Profession
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Domain 5: Practice & Context of
Language Teaching
5.1 Connecting
Learning Beyond the
Language
Classroom
5.2 Reflecting on
Language Learning
& Teaching
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What’s the vision of
Vietnam’s ETCF?
What do well-equipped English

teachers in Vietnam need to know &
be able to do?
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Vision: Practicing Professionals with
“Adaptive Expertise” (Bransford, Derry et al, 2005)
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ETCF: The Blueprint
Needs
assessment Assess teachers’ needs
Program Evaluate teacher training

Evaluation curriculum & programs
Program Improve quality of teacher training

Improvement curriculum & courses
Enable teachers to self-evaluate,

Self-
identify needs & seek professional
assessment
development opportunities
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NFL2020 Project
& RFLCs
provide the
roadmap
strategic plans & programs to
build the kind of teachers
envisioned in the ETCF
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Initial TOOLS:
Strengths & needs assessment
Teacher self-assessments
(ETCF User’s Guide Section 4)
www.nfl2020forum.net
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How do we use
the ETCF?
• First do no harm • Integrate ETCF content with
language proficiency (CBI / CLIL
• Create a menu of graduated
approach) in all teacher training
teacher development
opportunities to help teachers • Ask ‘what kind of English do
take charge of their own teachers need for teaching &
professional development how can we assess it’? (Domain
1, 2, 3)
• Map current courses to ETCF
• Embed proficiency, technology
• Create online assessment linked
& reflection objectives in all
to ETCF-based training
teacher training courses
opportunities
(Domain 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Integrate language proficiency
• Model 21st C skills and
objectives in all methodology
behaviors in teacher training
coures (Domain 1, 2)
(Domain 4)
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Successful Educational Change is
Multi-dimensional (Fullan)
teachers’
beliefs teaching
approaches
outside Successful
help
change
administrative
support
practical
innovations
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80,000 ELTs
Teacher-leaders, university-school partnerships
multilingual volunteers, others
Provincial DOETS, TTUs & TTCs
Regional Centers
international
train trainers
partners
research capacity
ETCF revise test system
integrate ICT
improve curriculum
NFL 2020 Project
SR Vietnam’s
Decision 1400
Monday, May 20, 13

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2.1 Language Teaching

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