KEY GUIDELINES

Since quality, excellence, and innovation stand at the heart of Phnom Penh International University (PPIU), the Faculty of Education has formulated key guidelines to be adopted in this Academic Year 2011-2012, with specific reference to the Universitys Lecturer Regulations and Student Regulations. The guidelines are portions of the indicators that the Faculty of Education will use to evaluate your teaching performance at the end of each semester. As such, please follow the guidelines below STRICTLY, in addition to the Universitys Lecturer Regulations and Student Regulations, to promote the quality of the Facultys language education.

1. Teaching and Learning 1.1. Please encourage and teach your students to use Folder for keeping all the teaching and learning materials given. 1.2. Please check your students attendance regularly, and submit all the attendance lists to (1) the Faculty of Education, (2) the Foundation Year Department for Year 1 only, and (3) the Academic Office for Years 2-4, at the end of each semester. 1.3. Please tell and/or teach your students to sit properly, meaning that the students must NOT be allowed to sit here and there. 1.4. Please as much as possible refrain from sitting and teaching your students in the class. Please adopt Khmer culture only. 1.5. Please avoid speaking Khmer language in the class, except when the concept is too difficult for your students to understand. 1.6. Please avoid talking irrelevantly (e.g., talking about yourself, other people, and/or other issues) in the class. Talking about politics is strongly prohibited. 1.7. Please avoid grading or scoring your students pieces of work in the class. 1.8. Please adopt Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach to the best of your ability and knowledge, meaning that you are supposed to devise tasks, techniques, and activities that enable your students to use the target language in real-world communication

(i.e. having an ability to understand and use English in listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Communicative competence is the core value of your teaching Subjects. 1.9. For Lecturers of Academic Writing, please adopt both a process- and a genre-based approach in your teaching of Writing Skills, with the provision of multiple-draft feedback on student writing. 1.10. Please provide your students with feedback, if possible both oral and written feedback, timely and regularly. Failing to do so may disable your students to acquire the target language effectively and efficiently. Please read my MA Thesis entitled as Using Oral and Written Feedback to Improve Student Writing: An Investigation from Cambodian Students Perspectives to see how useful an integration of both oral and written feedback at http://asian-efl-journal.com/thesis.php . 1.11. Please refrain from LATE IN, EARLY OUT or EARLY COME, EARLY GO. The Faculty of Education will closely and regularly monitor your attendance and your teaching process without your awareness. 1.12. Please work with your team to develop common Course Syllabus(es) for your Subject(s) at least one week prior to the commencement of each semester, and submit it/them to the Faculty to be double-checked. The approved syllabus(es) shall be disseminated to your students on the first day of orientation. 1.13. Please prepare your lessons well and ensure that they are well digested prior to each class or session. 1.14. For other issues, please refer to the latest updated Lecturer Regulations disseminated by Mr. Hin Sam Art during the meeting at 10:00AM on 22/Sep/2011.

2. Testing and Assessment 2.1. Please avoid bombarding your students with too many tasks or pieces of work, and ensure that the tasks are both purposeful (i.e. responsive to the course objectives) and meaningful (i.e. useful for your students). 2.2. Please use Microsoft Excel to record your students on-going assessment scores, divided into (1) Attendance Scores, (2) Assignment/Homework Scores, and (3) Mid-Term Scores. The Excel Scores shall be submitted in both a soft and a hard copy to (1) the Faculty of Education, (2) the Foundation Year Department for Year 1 only, and (3) the Academic Office for Years 2-4, at the end of each semester.

Assessment Types 1. On-going assessment 1.1. Attendance and participation 1.2. Assignments, presentations, homework, quizzes, and so on 1.3. Mid-term test 2. Final exam Total

Percentage 55% 10% It is up to individual lecturer. It is up to individual lecturer. 45% 100%

Notes: (1) Sixty (60) percent is a passing score. (2) The scale of the total final exam score is 45 out of 45, NOT 100/100 or whatsoever. 2.3. To be professional and ethical, please avoid curving your students scores in any way. The scores given must be fair, transparent, and highly reflective of each students performance. 2.4. Please test what has been taught and ensure that your test papers, ranging from the MidTerm and the Final, are purposeful (i.e. responsive to the course objectives) and meaningful (i.e. useful for students). Please check and pilot your test papers carefully before formally administering them in the class. 2.5. Please submit your Final Examination Paper in a soft copy (Microsoft Word) to the Faculty of Education to be integrated and checked in terms of validity, reliability, practicality and authenticity. Only one test paper of each subject will be used in the Final Examination. Note: Your test papers shall consist of both objective and subjective testing items. The objective testing items include true/false statements, gap-filling sentences, matching, cloze passage, and multiple-choice questions. Only 0.5 mark is allocated to each of the objective testing items, and your test paper must be 6-8 pages long. The subjective testing items entail comprehension questions and controlled writing, and the questions are supposed to follow the six levels of Blooms Taxonomy. 2.6. Please strictly administer your tests, meaning that your students are NOT allowed to cheat in any way. 2.7. For other issues, please refer to the latest updated Lecturer Regulations disseminated by Mr. Hin Sam Art (Senior Vice-Rector) during the meeting at 10:00AM on September 22, 2011.

3. Extra-Materials / Handouts 3.1. The handouts handed to your students shall be accurate, relevant to, and useful for their learning. To be accurate, it is a good idea to copy them from the original textbook(s), rather than re-typing them, which may result in topographical errors. 3.2. Please provide your students with as many RELEVANT materials/handouts as possible. 3.3. Please make use of all the available resources at your disposal and at the Universitys disposal (i.e. LCDs, audio-rooms, textbooks, handbooks, and so on). 3.4. Please attach your handouts with the Universitys Name, the Facultys Name, your Name, and your Subject, as a Header.

4. Miscellaneous 4.1. Please submit your Available Time upon request, and ensure that it is ACCURATE and IS NOT SUBJCTED TO CHANG later. Late submission will result in having no class to teach in the semester to come. 4.2. Please check your e-mail regularly to get informed about the Universitys meetings and updated policies. 4.3. Please attend the meetings upon request. Failing to attend the meetings for three consecutive times will result in having no class to teach permanently. 4.4. For other issues, please refer to the latest updated Lecturer Regulations disseminated by Mr. Hin Sam Art (Senior Vice-Rector) during the meeting at 10:00AM on September 22, 2011.

KEY NOTE

Again, please STRICTLY follow the aforementioned guidelines since they are portions of the indictors that the Faculty of Education will use to evaluate your teaching performance. As you have already been informed during the technical meeting at 10:00AM on August 31, 2011, a fair, systematic, and psychometric evaluation will be conducted at least TWO weeks prior to the end of each semester. The evaluation will take the three forms below: (1) student evaluation (random sampling from each class); (2) classroom-based observation by the Faculty of Education; and (3) self-rating or self-evaluation.

The collected data will be input into SPSS Version 19 for data analysis, and the results will be sealed in a confidential envelop. The Faculty will release the indictors and/or instruments to all of you when they are complete. Therefore, please be well-prepared for this action, and make sure that your teaching process will fulfill or match each criterion of evaluation from the perspectives of students, the Faculty, and yourself. Lets work together to make the Faculty of Education of PPIU become unique and robust in Cambodia. If you have any comments and/or concerns regarding the aforesaid guidelines, please feel free to contact the Faculty of Education at kealeaph@gmail.com or 016-37-16-32 / 017-37-69-59. Thanks for your strict implementation to be!

Phnom Penh, October 01, 2011

Kea Leaph Faculty of Education Phnom Penh International University