Topic: Teaching Workplace Preparation

This course takes participants through a very simple framework for defining culture that can be used to analyze workplace culture. By applying this framework in an analytical process, you can begin to understand the depth and complexity of a workplace culture. You can then use this understanding to more effectively prepare your students for success in a particular workplace culture, both from a cultural perspective and from a linguistic perspective.

Many of the courses we teach to prepare students to succeed in a particular workplace have to be customized to meet the specific language and culture demands of that workplace.  As a result, workplace preparation teachers often become course designers out of necessity.  In this course we will take you through a simple curriculum design framework to use when approaching the design of a workplace or occupation-specific language course.  Following this framework will ensure that you have a course that meets the needs of the students, employers and other course stakeholders.  It will also ensure that you create an effective, high quality course in a minimal amount of time.