Focus on Morocco | Health Care Access Topic Brief
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2010
This report presents a demographic breakdown of survey findings on the extent of access to formal healthcare in Morocco. It focuses on women and issues of affordability, quality of care, utilization and proximity to medical services. The survey was implemented in December 2009 and January 2010.
Focus on Yemen | Opinions on Early Marriage and Gender Quotas - Topic Brief
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This report presents a demographic breakdown of survey findings on opinions about introducing a minimum marriage age for girls in Yemen. It also focuses on attitudes toward gender quotas, knowledge of the concept of gender quotas and support for their introduction in elected bodies. The survey was implemented in June 2010.
Focus on Morocco | Project Overview and Respondent Demographics
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2010
This report presents demographic data on the survey respondents in the SWMENA reports on Morocco. It contains overviews of the project and its goals and methodology. The survey was implemented in December 2009 and January 2010.
Focus on Morocco | Paid Work and Control of Earnings and Assets Topic Brief
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2010
This report presents a demographic breakdown of survey findings on paid work and employment in Morocco. It focuses on participation of women in the formal economy and control over their earnings or other assets. The survey was implemented in December 2009 and January 2010.
Focus on Lebanon | Social Attitudes Toward Women Topic Brief
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This report presents a demographic breakdown of data from surveys to gauge social attitudes toward women in Lebanon. It focuses on support for women and daughters in politics, women working outside the home, women involved in decision-making positions and others. The survey was implemented in August 2009.
Focus on Morocco | Civic and Political Participation Topic Brief
Language(s): English, French
Published: 2010
This report presents a demographic breakdown of survey findings on civic and political participation in Morocco. It includes engagement in organizations and activities on political and social issues, voting behavior and women's opinions on policy priorities. The survey was implemented in December 2009 and January 2010.
Focus on Lebanon | Civic and Political Participation Topic Brief
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This report presents a demographic breakdown of survey findings on civic and political participation in Lebanon. It includes engagement in organizations and activities on political and social issues, voting behavior and women's opinions on policy priorities. The survey was implemented in August 2009.
Focus on Lebanon | Attitudes Towards Policy Change Topic Brief
Language(s): English, Arabic
Published: 2010
This report presents a demographic breakdown of survey findings on attitudes toward policy change in Lebanon. The reforms covered an optional civil marriage law, the introduction of gender quotas in elected bodies and a reformed citizenship law. The survey was implemented in August 2009.
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.
Day Five: Algerian English Framework
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This document, used in the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is a section from the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School 4 (MS4), a manual designed to support teachers in understanding and implementing the Algerian English Curriculum for the fourth year of middle school. The guide details the competencies for each year of English study and objectives for the final year of middle school. It also provides examples of pedagogy and assessment when using the curriculum, and contains sample themes and a sample unit.
Day Six: One Possible Paradigm for a Receptive Skills Lesson
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the sixth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, presents a paradigm for receptive English language skills in a reading or listening lesson. This is described on a table, which is used to increase student interest in learning vocabulary related to the topic. The emphasis is on using cultural knowledge and integrating reading or listening text with a broader language framework.
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.
"Reluctant" Teachers - Can We Make Them Tick?
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This document, used in the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is an article on teacher resistance to new teaching practices. It includes an explanation of causes and proposes possible solutions.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Day Ten: SIT Graduate Institute Best Practices for Supervisors Course Session I Program Evaluation
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the tenth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is an evaluation questionnaire to be completed by participants.
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 Six: MS4 Expanded Curriculum Objectives
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource, used on the sixth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, provides an expansion on the English curriculum objectives for Algerian students in the 4th level of Middle School. The document includes a detailed breakdown of learning objectives for the following skills: oral interaction, interpretive listening, interpretive reading, productive writing, productive speaking and linguistic competence.
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 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 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 Seven: Daily Schedule
Language(s): English
Published: 2008
This resource provides a detailed plan for the seventh day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Activities include: presenting teacher workshop homework to peers; listing principles of organizing effective training sessions; writing action plans to improve planning/delivery; listing principles of giving effective advice; and articulating, examining and comparing different views of the same oral feedback event.