Overview of Weekly Learning Events - Structure
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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.
Designing and Developing a Learner-Centered Course
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This manual guides trainees through the different steps of designing a learner-centered course. It is structured so that trainees can directly write in ideas and notes as they develop their class.
Day Four: Lesson Plan
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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.
Phase Two: Day Two Terminology
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This list of definitions accompanies the lesson for the second day of the Phase Two training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course.
Microskills of Listening Comprehension
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This document lists skills that students need to develop in order to improve their listening comprehension capabilities.
One Framework for Planning a Teacher Training or Development Workshop
Language(s): English
Published: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides guidelines to workshop development and successful workshop participation. Discussion topics focus on participants sharing, reflecting and analyzing common experience related to a target strategy.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 11: Integrating Skills
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Integrating Skills (week 11). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 3: Assessment
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Assessment (week 3). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
The Algerian English Framework (AEF)
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2010
This framework provides details on the levels of English competency in the following categories: interaction, interpretive learning, interpretive reading, productive writing, productive speaking and linguistic competency.
Grammar -Week 10
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document is the second lesson plan for a Moodle session on grammar. It builds off of the previous session and continues to explore questions related to grammar teaching. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's tenth session.
'Good' Teacher Excerpt
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout defines the concept of what a 'good' teacher is. Ideas include fostering a comfortable environment in which there is two-way learning between teachers and students, and encouraging habits that will endure outside the classroom.
Pre-During-Post Framework for Listening Texts Questions
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout accompanies "Pre-During-Post Framework for Listening Texts." It provides a list of questions for teachers to ask when administering the activity.
Guiding Principles for Teaching English in Algeria
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This document explains teaching principles and corresponding competencies necessary for teaching English to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) students.
Steps in Creating a Course Syllabus
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout reviews each step a teacher should take when designing a course syllabus.
Designing a Learner-Centered Course, Part I
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation was used on the first day of the Designing a Learner-centered Course workshop and accompanies trainees as they complete the course activities. It outlines the big questions and tasks that trainees must complete during the session
United Federation of Teachers Professional Devlopment Program, Teacher Centers
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, provides an overview of the New York State Regent exam, specifically the English Language Arts Exam. Included are guidelines of project-based learning and alternative assessment for learning English.
Providing an Education to Students with Handicapping Special Needs
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation is an introduction on how to provide education for students with special needs. It describes the different categories of disabilities, the role of the various actors in providing education for these students and what leaders need to do to make schools more responsive to children with special educational needs.