JALTCALL 2024 Conference

Teaching robotics in English by engineering- and English-major pre-service teachers

18 May 2024, 10:50

30m

DW 306 (West Building)

Practice-based Presentation (30 minutes) Professional Development and Teacher Training DW 306: Mixed Sessions

Speakers

Yu-Liang Ting (Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan)Dr Yaming Tai (Department of Children English Education National Taipei University of Education Taipei, Taiwan)Ms Hui-Ting Chang (Department of Mathematics and Information Education National Taipei University of Education Taipei, Taiwan)Ms Wan-Xin Chen (Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan)

Description

Collaborating with professionals with different expertise is important to accomplish cross-disciplinary tasks. In the context of school, it means setting up a collaborative mission to enhance students’ cross-disciplinary knowledge and build up a positive attitude toward such collaboration. Such issue is explored in this study by proposing a mission for pre-service teachers of engineering and English to teach high school students through English about the build and use of robotic arms. Participating pre-service teachers need not only to collaboratively learn the related knowledge and skills from each other but also co-design and carry out the teaching. This study investigates the collaborative work among these pre-service teachers by observations and interviews. The results reveal that the participants’ autonomy has been evidenced during the process of Learning by Teaching, in which meta-cognition and meta-curriculum about cross-disciplinary pre-service teacher training seemed to emerge. The results and discussions should cast a new aspect in addressing the cross-disciplinary work for pre-service teacher training.