Pre-During-Post Task
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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)
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 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
Language(s): English
Published: 2012
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.
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.