Civic Engagement projects funded by MEPI focused on CSO capacity building and advocacy, and civic education. Projects have aimed to strengthen local engagement, CSO national dialogue, voter ownership, leadership skills and NGO governance.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.