This handout aims to help students contextualize what they are hearing, so they can improve their listening comprehension skills.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.