Day Ten: Daily Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource provides a detailed plan for the tenth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Activities include: articulating learning over the course, writing and sharing five action plans for professional development, articulating challenges and strategies for putting professional development action plans into practice, and completing an evaluation of the first two weeks of the course.
Day Five: Daily Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource provides a detailed plan for the fifth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Sample activities include: identifying second language reading strategies and ways to support second language readers, experiencing and analyzing a sample reading lesson, listing key stages in a PDP lesson (Pre, During and Post) and brainstorming the outline of a reading lesson.
Day Five: Reading Awareness Letters
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the fifth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, complements the Reading Awareness exercise for English language supervisors. The curriculum includes letters to be read by participants in German, French, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese and English, in order to analyze the experience of reading in a second language.
Day Nine: Daily Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource provides a detailed plan for the ninth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Activities include: evaluating and discussing suggestions for active listening, writing a first draft of supervisor competencies based on coursework, reading written feedback forms and formal Algerian post-observation reports, evaluating their usefulness, and suggesting ways to improve quality.
Day One: Needs Assessment
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the first day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is a needs assessment survey for participants. Included are questions on their role as supervisors, their interests and goals in the workshop, qualifications and practical and educational backgrounds.
Day One: Feedback
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the first day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is a needs assessment survey for participants. Included are questions on their role as supervisors, their interests and goals in the workshop, qualifications and practical and educational backgrounds.
Section III, Guiding Principles and Teacher Competencies
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
Section III of the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School Year 4 (MS4) provides detailed descriptions of the guiding principles and competencies for the curriculum. Included is a list of nine guiding principles and a corresponding list of teacher competencies.
Inspector Self-Assessment Form
Language(s): English
Published: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides a three-part inspector self-assessment exercise. Assignments focus on analyzing individual strengths and areas for improvement and a plan to develop competencies.
Observation Visit, Stage 1: Pre-Observation Meeting
Language(s): English
Published: 2012
Day Five: Lesson Plan
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the fifth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, provides a sample English lesson plan. The lesson provides practice on listening, speaking and vocabulary skills, and includes a listening text on pre-historic life in the Sahara. It also reviews an earlier grammar lesson on the use of “used to…”. The lesson plan includes sample personal goals, objectives, assessment methods, interaction patterns, target Algerian English Framework competencies and required materials and/or resources.
Day One: Guidelines for Group Interactions
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the first day of the Best Practices Supervisors course, is a tool for addressing participants group interaction rules as well as their individual strengths and challenges. The document includes a manual of good conduct and a section for participants' self-evaluation of strengths and challenges.
Day Six: The Training Development Continuum
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the sixth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, focuses on the key differences between teacher training and teacher development with a table to be completed by participants to test their understanding of the training development continuum. The philosophy is that teacher training is geared toward giving teachers knowledge and skills, whereas teacher development is meant for building awareness.
Best Practices for Supervisors Course Overview
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Supervisors course, provides an overview of training questions, goals and content. Included are learning objectives for the trainees and how they might demonstrate having met the objectives. Discussion topics focus on the professional role of teacher supervisors, the Algerian Competency Based Approach and Guiding Principles, the Algerian English Framework (AEF), evaluation of textbook materials and training workshop development.