Contemporary Assessment Practices Creating a Multi-Faceted, Data Driven Assessment Process for Student Learning
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation describes assessment practices. It offers a comparison of assessment of learning vs assessment for learning, focusing particularly on the latter. It offers teachers tips and tools on how to craft assessments for learning to more effectively measure students' understanding of taught materials.
Data Driven Planning and Decision-Making for Continuous School Improvement: Developing a Program Evaluation Plan
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation explains what program evaluation is and gives standards for evaluation. Outlined are the important program evaluation steps as well as the questions that a person conducting the evaluation should pose.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 6: Writing -Part 1
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Writing - Part 1 (week 6). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Using Social Media in Education
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document lists social media sites that were touched upon in the presentation, "Using Social Media in Education." The sites are classified according to type of social media, and each site has a short description of each.
Day Six: The Training Development Continuum in Teacher Education: Some Practical Applications
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the sixth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, provides information on the training- development continuum related specifically to teacher training. The article distinguishes between teacher training, which is geared towards giving teachers knowledge and skills, versus teacher development, which focuses on building their awareness. The resource also provides examples and a diagram.
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.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 10: Grammar - Part 2
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Grammar - Part 2 (week 10). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
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
Civic Education Module: Gender
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2014
Teacher's Guide - Grade 11, Unit 5: Space Geometry
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This document is a guide for teachers using active learning techniques as they teach space geometry. Included in the guide are activities and advice on how to implement them.
Graphic Organizers
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout contains visual aids that help students to organize their thoughts and improve their reading comprehension skills.
Day Five Trainer Plan
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the fifth day of the Phase two training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. It focuses on writing and formatting syllabi.
Moodle Final Exam
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document is the final exam for the Moodle trainees. The exam is in multiple choice form, and the answer key is bolded.
Reading Strategies
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout examines techniques for teaching language learning strategies. There is a particular focus on the active role students should play in strategic reading.