Day Six: Daily Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource provides a detailed plan for the sixth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Activities include: presenting reading lesson homework to peers, reconstructing a training/development grid and justifying choices, analyzing receptive skills, and planning a sample listening lesson and workshop for teachers.
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 Two: Daily Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource provides a plan for the second day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. The activities include: how to articulate understanding of a professional's roles as supervisor, demonstrating understanding of the processes of professional change and development for teachers, evaluating the supervisory context, and listing system strengths, weaknesses and potential improvements.
Day One: Group Stages H-O
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the first day of the Best Practices Supervisors course, provides an analysis of group behavior. The document includes a formatted table with each of the group behavior stages: 1) forming; 2) storming; 3) norming; and 4) performing, along with a description of each.
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.
Day Three: Lesson Plan
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the third day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, provides a sample English grammar lesson plan. The focus of the lesson is on "used to..." and includes sample personal goals, lesson objectives, assessment methods, interaction patterns, target competencies, required materials and/or resources, and post lesson reflection questions for teachers.