Day Two Trainer Plan
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the second day of the Phase two training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. It focuses on teaching reading strategies.
Day Three: Daily Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This plan for the third day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course includes the schedule, training objectives and activities. The activities include: experiencing and analyzing a grammar lesson, discussing teacher competencies, challenges and guiding principles for English curriculum in Algeria, identifying key factors in planning training workshops for teachers, and analyzing textbook materials and planning improvements.
Phase Two: Day One Trainer Plans
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the first day of the Phase Two training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. It also gives recommendations for "getting to know you" activities.
Checking Understanding Questions
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This exercise accompanies the "Checking Understanding" exercise. It encourages teachers to pay close attention to the level of understanding of their students.
The Inspector Competencies
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2010
This resource describes competencies for inspectors, such as English language teaching knowledge and skills, reflective skills, interpersonal qualities and skills, administrative skills and more.
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
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.
Writing - Week 6
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on writing - planning writing assignments, identifying techniques and creating a cognitive map of one's thought process. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's sixth session.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 7: Writing -Part 2
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Writing - Part 2 (week 7). It offers a step-by-step outline of that class, including objectives, tasks and activities.
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.
Trainer Plan Day Five
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the fifth day of the Phase One training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. Topics in this curriculum include lesson planning formats and formative assessment. Also included is a synthesis of Week One of the training session.
SLA Hot Topics
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This exercise asks teachers to indicate how much they agree or disagree with statements related to perceptions about teaching Second Language Acquisition (SLA) students.
Bloom Taxonomy Grid Activity
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This activity helps teachers develop a syllabus by encouraging them to outline their goals and objectives.
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.
Presentation - Using Social Media in Education: How Social Media Can Help Teachers
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation focuses on how social media can be used in education. The presenters explain what types of social media are available, how they can be used when teaching a course, advantages and disadvantages, as well as risks and gains.
Principles of Adult Learning and Best Practices for Teaching Adults
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout discusses principles of adult learning and is useful for trainers to reference when working with teachers.
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.