Lecture Skills Summary
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout gives tips for teachers to give successful and meaningful lectures. Some of the topics covered include: creating a conducive atmosphere, using visual support, asking questions and delivery approaches.
How Do I Lecture Thee?
Langue(s): Français
Publié: 2011
This handout cites academic sources for the best lecture techniques.
Improving Lectures
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This article from Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development examines ways that teachers and professors can improve their lecture skills.
Moodle Midterm Exam Questions
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is the midterm for the Moodle trainees. The midterm is in multiple choice form. This is also the answer key as the correct answers are bolded.
Designing a Learner-Centered Course, Part II
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This presentation was used on the fifth day of the Designing a Learner-Centered Course workshop and accompanies trainees as they complete the course activities. It outlines the big questions and tasks that trainees must complete during the session.
Delivering a Lecture
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout gives tips for teachers to give successful and meaningful lectures to their students. It focuses on opening the lecture, keeping students' interest, vocal tips and closing the lecture.
The Teacher Competency Framework
Langue(s): Anglais, Français
Publié: 2010
This resource lists guiding principles for teaching English in Algeria and describes teaching competencies, such as viewing English as a tool to make connections with the world and the aim of communicative competence.
Listening Strategies
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This is a checklist for teachers or students to ask themselves after a lecture or conversation in English, with the goal of increasing listening comprehension.
Pre-During-Post Task
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This activity accompanies the "Pre-During-Post Framework for Listening Texts." It encourages teachers to ask themselves what they believe students will and will not know about a text before reading to it.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 1: Task-Based Learning
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Task-Based Learning (week 1). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Civic Education Module: Electoral Process
Langue(s): Arabe
Publié: 2014
Day Eight: Daily Schedule
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 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 Five: Reading Awareness (60 min)
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2008
This resource, used on the fifth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is an exercise plan focusing on strategies and methods for teaching second language reading. The aim is for participants to analyze an experience of reading a text in a second language, identify key features of reading skills, list strategies that facilitate reading and link these strategies to teaching the skill of reading.
Section IV, The Competency Based Approach
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
Section IV of the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School Year 4 (MS4) describes the Competency-Based Approach to language evaluation for students. Included are definitions and goals of the approach, emphasizing what learners can actively do with language.
Assessment -Week 3
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on assessment - the purpose of conducting assessments and techniques. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's third session.
Day Five Lesson Plan: Reading in "Sahara Unit" MS4 File 5
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 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.
Writing -Week 7
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a second Moodle session on writing with feedback strategies and guidelines on correcting student writing assignments. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's seventh session.
Moodle Site and www.algeriatesol.org Orientation
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout introduces teachers and trainers to the Moodle website. The website helps teachers find sample lessons, teacher competencies, the meaning of English language teaching terminology, and other useful teaching related material.
Section V, Algerian English Framework (AEF) Table for Grades 6-12
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This resource consists of a series of tables that supplement Section V of the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School Year 4 (MS4). It outlines the expected level of attainment of each of the competencies by grade level and across grade level. It also includes a focus on oral interaction, interpretive listening and reading, productive writing and listening, and linguistic competency.
Questions When Considering Planning a Workshop Session
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides a brief guide to planning a workshop session. Included are a series of guiding questions and corresponding answers for planning a session. Discussion topics focus on what is expected of the participants, what is needed of the instructor and how to assess what participants have gained from the workshop.
Changing Instructional Strategies and the Role of the Principal
Langue(s): Anglais, Arabe
Publié: 2010
This presentation describes teacher-centered learning, offers tips for teachers to adapt their current methods to ensure that students are more involved in their learning, and then outlines the characteristics of active learning. Also included is an explanation of the "checking for understanding" technique.
Day Five: Dear Becky
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 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.
How to Do Informal Testing Handout
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout explains the value and process of conducting informal testing in a classroom. Informal tests utilize methods like peer testing and concept questions in order to encourage students to track their progress and motivate themselves.
Teacher Self-Assessment Form
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides a three-part teacher self-assessment exercise. The exercises aim to analyze individual strengths and areas for improvement and provide a plan to take action to develop competencies.
Developing Competency-Based Learner Assessments
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012