Types of Learner Assessment Activities
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides an overview of different types of learner assessment activities. Included are descriptions of several learner response concepts and performance-based task typologies. Discussion topics focus on product, performance and process/strategy-focused tasks.
Humanistic Techniques -Week 12
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on Humanistic Techniques. It focuses specifically on three humanistic approaches - the Silent Way, Desuggestopedia and Total Physical Response (TPR). Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's twelfth session.
Student Self-Assessment
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides descriptions of self-reflection and self-assessment, along with practical applications for learning. Discussion topics focus on student engagement in the classroom, keys to life-long learning, creating a culture that values self-reflection and self-assessment, and tools to help students self-assess.
Appendix D, Sample Unit
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
Appendix D of the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School Year 4 (MS4) outlines a sample unit related to the fifth unit of the school year, as laid out in Appendix B. Included are sample unit objectives and daily lesson plans, which are divided into stages that follow the unit cycle found in Appendix C.
Supplemental Materials
اللغة (اللغات):
تاريخ النشر: 2011
The Best Practices for Supervisors Course was designed for the professional development of Algerian middle school and high school English teacher supervisors. The course consisted of two 60-hour face-to-face trainings and an interim online phase. The first session of face-to-face trainings was delivered in October 2008. The second session, online, ran in winter 2009, and the final face-to-face session was held in spring 2009.
The Teacher as Observer
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides descriptions of teacher observer strategies and the impact they have in the classroom. Discussion topics focus on teacher observational comparisons, data collection, data analysis, observational difficulties and observational implications.
Day 2 Handout
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This handout focuses on the learning aspects of competency based assessment. Included are questions related to the assessment and a writing exercise. It is used on the second day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course.
Inspector Manual
اللغة (اللغات):
تاريخ النشر: 2012
The Best Practices for Supervisors Course was designed for the professional development of Algerian middle school and high school English teacher supervisors. The course consisted of two 60-hour face-to-face trainings and an interim online phase. The first session of face-to-face trainings was delivered in October 2008. The second session, online, ran in winter 2009, and the final face-to-face session was held in spring 2009.
Day 1 Handout
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This resource provides an entry/exit profile for Secondary Education Year 1 (SE1) writing and linguistic competencies. Included are student entry/exit expectations for grammar and vocabulary, as well as a writing exercise. It is used on the first day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course.
Competency Based Assessment Plan, Part 6
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource is part six of a competency based assessment plan focusing on teacher competencies and trainer evaluation rubrics. Included are the objectives, required materials, timing, rationale and procedure for completing the assessment. It is used on the sixth day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course. For more information, please see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, and part 7.
Workshop Feedback Form 2
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides a workshop feedback form for participants. Included are a series of short-answer questions for participants to reflect on the effectiveness of the workshop.
Trainer Plan Day Six
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the sixth day of the Phase One training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. The focus of this curriculum is teaching vocabulary.
Trainer Plan Day Nine
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the ninth day of the Phase One training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. It provides a synthesis and evaluation of the ten-day course.
Phase One Course Schedule
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This schedule outlines the 10-day Phase One course schedule, including specific teaching tips for trainers.
Trainer Plan Day Two
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the second day of the Phase Two training session for the Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Development Course. Topics in this curriculum include Second Language Acquisition (SLA) theory and communicative competence.
Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course Overview
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This document outlines the vision, guiding questions, learning strands and objectives of the Ministry of Higher Education's faculty course. The course focuses on effective teaching strategies and use of technology in the classroom.
David Kolb and the Experimental Learning Cycle
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides an analysis of the Experimental Learning Cycle, as presented by author David Kolb. Included are descriptions of four distinct learning styles and the four-staged learning cycle on which they are based. Discussion topics focus on the basis of Kolb’s experimental learning model.
Workshop Feedback Form 1
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides a workshop feedback form for inspectors. Included are a series of multiple choice questions that reflect on how well the objectives of the workshop were met.
Lecture Skills Summary
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This handout gives tips for teachers to give successful and meaningful lectures. Some of the topics covered include: creating a conducive atmosphere, using visual support, asking questions and delivery approaches.
How Do I Lecture Thee?
اللغة (اللغات): الفرنسية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This handout cites academic sources for the best lecture techniques.
Improving Lectures
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This article from Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development examines ways that teachers and professors can improve their lecture skills.
Moodle Midterm Exam Questions
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This document is the midterm for the Moodle trainees. The midterm is in multiple choice form. This is also the answer key as the correct answers are bolded.
Delivering a Lecture
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This handout gives tips for teachers to give successful and meaningful lectures to their students. It focuses on opening the lecture, keeping students' interest, vocal tips and closing the lecture.
إطار كفاءة المعلم
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية, الفرنسية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
يدرج هذا المورد قوائم المبادئ التوجيهية لتدريس اللغة الإنجليزية في الجزائر، ويصف الكفاءات التعليمية، مثل اعتبار اللغة الإنجليزية كأداة للتواصل مع العالم ، والهدف من الكفاءة التواصلية.
Listening Strategies
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This is a checklist for teachers or students to ask themselves after a lecture or conversation in English, with the goal of increasing listening comprehension.
Pre-During-Post Task
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This activity accompanies the "Pre-During-Post Framework for Listening Texts." It encourages teachers to ask themselves what they believe students will and will not know about a text before reading to it.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 1: Task-Based Learning
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Task-Based Learning (week 1). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Day Eight: Daily Schedule
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2008
This resource provides a detailed plan for the eighth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Activities include: suggesting solutions to common problems in giving feedback to teachers, analyzing transcripts of oral feedback, analyzing teacher’s understanding and implementation of feedback, reviewing teacher competencies, and describing teacher behaviors to look for during observation.
Day Five: Reading Awareness (60 min)
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2008
This resource, used on the fifth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is an exercise plan focusing on strategies and methods for teaching second language reading. The aim is for participants to analyze an experience of reading a text in a second language, identify key features of reading skills, list strategies that facilitate reading and link these strategies to teaching the skill of reading.
Section IV, The Competency Based Approach
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
Section IV of the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School Year 4 (MS4) describes the Competency-Based Approach to language evaluation for students. Included are definitions and goals of the approach, emphasizing what learners can actively do with language.
Assessment -Week 3
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on assessment - the purpose of conducting assessments and techniques. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's third session.
Day Five Lesson Plan: Reading in "Sahara Unit" MS4 File 5
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2008
This resource, used on the fifth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, provides a sample English reading lesson plan. The lesson provides practice on reading, speaking, writing and vocabulary skills, in a lesson on pre-historic life in the Sahara. It also reviews grammar lessons on the use of “used to…” and “didn’t use to...”. Included are: sample personal goals, objectives, assessment methods, rationale and interaction patterns, target Algerian English Framework competencies and required materials and/or resources.
Writing -Week 7
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a second Moodle session on writing with feedback strategies and guidelines on correcting student writing assignments. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's seventh session.
Moodle Site and www.algeriatesol.org Orientation
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This handout introduces teachers and trainers to the Moodle website. The website helps teachers find sample lessons, teacher competencies, the meaning of English language teaching terminology, and other useful teaching related material.
Section V, Algerian English Framework (AEF) Table for Grades 6-12
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This resource consists of a series of tables that supplement Section V of the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School Year 4 (MS4). It outlines the expected level of attainment of each of the competencies by grade level and across grade level. It also includes a focus on oral interaction, interpretive listening and reading, productive writing and listening, and linguistic competency.
Questions When Considering Planning a Workshop Session
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides a brief guide to planning a workshop session. Included are a series of guiding questions and corresponding answers for planning a session. Discussion topics focus on what is expected of the participants, what is needed of the instructor and how to assess what participants have gained from the workshop.
Day Five: Dear Becky
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2008
This resource, used on the fifth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is a reading exercise that complements the sample English reading lesson plan on pre-historic life in the Sahara.
How to Do Informal Testing Handout
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This handout explains the value and process of conducting informal testing in a classroom. Informal tests utilize methods like peer testing and concept questions in order to encourage students to track their progress and motivate themselves.
Teacher Self-Assessment Form
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides a three-part teacher self-assessment exercise. The exercises aim to analyze individual strengths and areas for improvement and provide a plan to take action to develop competencies.
Developing Competency-Based Learner Assessments
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
Overview of Weekly Learning Events - Structure
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This document presents a structure for Moodle training sessions. It contains flow charts and diagrams that illustrate the steps trainers can follow when giving Moodle workshops.
Task-Based Learning Methods of Teaching English -Week 1
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on task-based learning. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's first session.
Grammar -Week 9
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on grammar - how to incorporate grammar teaching in communicative tasks and different approaches to using grammar in English teaching. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's ninth session.
Day Four: Lesson Plan
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2008
This resource, used on the fourth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is a lesson plan template for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) teacher and teacher supervisor. It includes a table for teachers to record their personal goals, the lesson's focus, objectives, procedures, rationale and interaction patterns (teacher to student, student to student), competencies to target, methods for assessment, required materials and/or resources, and post-lesson teacher reflections.
Student-Centered Learning Principles Matrix
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2010
This manual describes the principles of student-centered learning. It gives teachers ideas and examples about how to make their classroom a more communicative learning environment that fosters independent thought. Each section explains the principles, how to prepare, how to implement various activities and how to best follow-up.
Syllabus, Best Practices for Inspectors Online 2
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This syllabus outlines the 12-week curriculum and educational goals of the Best Practices for Inspectors online course. Included are a table that labels each week’s lesson and a list of skill expectations from completion of the course.
Teacher Observation and Feedback Overview
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides descriptions of observation visits and practical application for teachers and inspectors. Discussion topics focus on guidelines to implementing observation visits and incorporating observation visits into teaching.
Class/Lecture Skills: Questions and Suggested Actions
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This handout provides a list of questions for teachers or trainers to ask themselves in the classroom. The questions focus on preparation and organization, delivery, and post-class activities and evaluations.
Canale and Swain’s Communicative Competence
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2011
This handout explains the model of communicative competence, including definitions of grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence.
Day Four: Daily Schedule
اللغة (اللغات): الإنجليزية
تاريخ النشر: 2008
This resource provides a plan for the fourth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Sample activities include: identifying teachers’ anticipated strengths and challenges in implementing the Algerian English Framework competencies, participating in a sample training workshop on adapting textbooks and evaluating learning objectives.