A Training Session on: Measuring Conflict: Mediation and Negotiation
Organization: Near East FoundationLanguage(s): Arabic
Published: 2010
Pre-During-Post Framework for Listening Texts
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout aims to help students contextualize what they are hearing, so they can improve their listening comprehension skills.
Involving Parents and Communities
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation is about the importance of involving parents in their children's education and school activities. Included are advice on how to best communicate with parents and reflection questions for trainees to assess how involved parents are in their schools.
Speaking - Week 4
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on speaking - the elements of successful speech and how speech is used in the classroom. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes and follow-up for the course's fourth session.
Speaking - Week 5
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a second Moodle session on speaking - the challenges of teaching speaking and the teacher's role in providing feedback and assessment. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's fifth session.
My Arabic Library: Teacher's Guide - Fourth Grade
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2011
This manual from Scholastic is intended for teachers of fourth grade (elementary) students and contains lesson plans and activities to promote reading within the classroom. The guide aims to enhance reading skills and improve analytical abilities. It includes subjects such as the classroom library, selecting books, implementing a system for borrowing books and the role of family in encouraging reading. It also provides an overview of recommended books.
Leading Change
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This presentation offers insight into the role of principals as culture architects and culture change agents. It also explains the importance of assessing a school's culture and defining a school vision. Finally, it goes over the eight-stage process of change.
Principles of Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, provides an overview of general principles for instructed language acquisition. Discussion topics focus on the design and nature of these principles and their relevance to teachers in a variety of settings.
Basic Principles and Practice in Vocabulary Instruction
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, provides some of the major ‘common sense’ principles of vocabulary instruction and learning. Included are discussions on general language teaching and vocabulary principles.
The Foundation of Contemporary Approaches to Experimental Learning (Part I)
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, provides an overview of experimental learning. Background on experimental learning is included, along with how it is integrated into traditional educational programs. Discussion topics focus on using experimental learning to link education, work and personal development.
The Process of Experimental Learning (Part II)
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, is part two of an overview of experimental learning. The focus is on integrating the technique into traditional educational programs and includes three models of the experimental learning process.
Competency Based Assessment Plan, Part 3
Language(s): English
Published: 2012
This resource is part three of a competency based assessment plan, focusing on giving workshops. It describes how to design, plan, deliver and critique a training workshop. The workshop focus is on informal testing. It is used on the third day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course. For more information, please see part 1, part 2, part 4, part 5, part 6, and part 7 of this resource.
Teaching Vocabulary Words
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This brief document provides tips on teaching legal vocabulary words.
The Role of School Journalism in Socialization and Enhancing Democratic Awareness
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2011
This curriculum focuses on school journalism in socialization and enhancing democratic awareness. The first of five sections explains the concept of school journalism and its role in enhancing democracy. Additional sections focus on the four dimensions of school journalism: media, administrative, educational and artistic. Examples are provided for each dimension, and proposed models of radio broadcasting in schools are presented.
How to Activate Vocabulary Handout
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout suggests ways that teachers can most effectively "activate" new vocabulary words in their learners. Included are exercises, questionnaires and creative activities.
A Course in Critical Reading of Media
Language(s): Arabic
Published: 2009
This course provides a model for critical reading of the media and is targeted to students of secondary schools on the representation of the Arab minority in Israeli media. It includes a manual for secondary school instructors called "Communicating Peace," which suggests criteria for evaluating news coverage and includes modules for teaching about problematic news coverage of Jewish-Arab relations in the major Hebrew-language Israeli press.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 2: Learner Characteristics
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Learner Characteristics (week 2). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Lesson Four: Resolving Conflicts - Teacher's Version
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This curriculum provides information for teachers to accompany the handout on Resolving Conflicts.
Prediction within a Sentence Exercise
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This exercise helps students with their reading comprehension skills.
Day 4 Handout
Language(s): English
Published: 2012
This resource is a handout focusing on understanding the characteristics of competency based assessment. Included are writing exercises and questions about the qualities of competency based assessment, as well as a rubric for assessing the writing exercises. It is used on the fourth day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course.
Types of Questions Based on Bloom's Taxonomy
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This handout gives definitions of Bloom's "question categories," which should be utilized when asking students questions
Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Development Program Course Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2011
This schedule outlines the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education training session for the 10-day faculty development program.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 12: Humanistic Techniques
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Humanistic Techniques (week 12). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Student Activity Book - English 11, Unit 6: Occupations
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document is a unit out of an English as a Second Language student activity book. The unit's theme is "occupations." There are activities and tasks for students to complete individually and in group settings.
Teacher's Guide - English 11, Unit 6: Occupations
Language(s): English
Published: 2010
This document provides a practical example of how Active Learning can be incorporated into the English curriculum. This guide offers various activities that can be used in the context of a class on occupations, as well as timeframes for the activities and answers to the activity book. There are also profile charts for teachers to track student attainment of objectives and portfolio requirements.