Overview of Weekly Learning Events - Structure
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document presents a structure for Moodle training sessions. It contains flow charts and diagrams that illustrate the steps trainers can follow when giving Moodle workshops.
Task-Based Learning Methods of Teaching English -Week 1
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on task-based learning. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's first session.
Grammar -Week 9
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on grammar - how to incorporate grammar teaching in communicative tasks and different approaches to using grammar in English teaching. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's ninth session.
Designing and Developing a Learner-Centered Course
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This manual guides trainees through the different steps of designing a learner-centered course. It is structured so that trainees can directly write in ideas and notes as they develop their class.
Day Four: Lesson Plan
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 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.
Student-Centered Learning Principles Matrix
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This manual describes the principles of student-centered learning. It gives teachers ideas and examples about how to make their classroom a more communicative learning environment that fosters independent thought. Each section explains the principles, how to prepare, how to implement various activities and how to best follow-up.
Syllabus, Best Practices for Inspectors Online 2
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This syllabus outlines the 12-week curriculum and educational goals of the Best Practices for Inspectors online course. Included are a table that labels each week’s lesson and a list of skill expectations from completion of the course.
Teacher Observation and Feedback Overview
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides descriptions of observation visits and practical application for teachers and inspectors. Discussion topics focus on guidelines to implementing observation visits and incorporating observation visits into teaching.
Class/Lecture Skills: Questions and Suggested Actions
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout provides a list of questions for teachers or trainers to ask themselves in the classroom. The questions focus on preparation and organization, delivery, and post-class activities and evaluations.
Canale and Swain’s Communicative Competence
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout explains the model of communicative competence, including definitions of grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence.
Day Four: Daily Schedule
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2008
This resource provides a plan for the fourth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, including the schedule, training objectives and activities. Sample activities include: identifying teachers’ anticipated strengths and challenges in implementing the Algerian English Framework competencies, participating in a sample training workshop on adapting textbooks and evaluating learning objectives.
Phase Two: Day Two Terminology
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This list of definitions accompanies the lesson for the second day of the Phase Two training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course.
Microskills of Listening Comprehension
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This document lists skills that students need to develop in order to improve their listening comprehension capabilities.
One Framework for Planning a Teacher Training or Development Workshop
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides guidelines to workshop development and successful workshop participation. Discussion topics focus on participants sharing, reflecting and analyzing common experience related to a target strategy.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 11: Integrating Skills
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Integrating Skills (week 11). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 3: Assessment
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Assessment (week 3). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
The Algerian English Framework (AEF)
Langue(s): Anglais, Français
Publié: 2010
This framework provides details on the levels of English competency in the following categories: interaction, interpretive learning, interpretive reading, productive writing, productive speaking and linguistic competency.
Grammar -Week 10
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is the second lesson plan for a Moodle session on grammar. It builds off of the previous session and continues to explore questions related to grammar teaching. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's tenth session.
'Good' Teacher Excerpt
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout defines the concept of what a 'good' teacher is. Ideas include fostering a comfortable environment in which there is two-way learning between teachers and students, and encouraging habits that will endure outside the classroom.
Pre-During-Post Framework for Listening Texts Questions
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout accompanies "Pre-During-Post Framework for Listening Texts." It provides a list of questions for teachers to ask when administering the activity.
Guiding Principles for Teaching English in Algeria
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This document explains teaching principles and corresponding competencies necessary for teaching English to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) students.
Steps in Creating a Course Syllabus
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout reviews each step a teacher should take when designing a course syllabus.
Designing a Learner-Centered Course, Part I
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This presentation was used on the first 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
United Federation of Teachers Professional Devlopment Program, Teacher Centers
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, provides an overview of the New York State Regent exam, specifically the English Language Arts Exam. Included are guidelines of project-based learning and alternative assessment for learning English.
Providing an Education to Students with Handicapping Special Needs
Langue(s): Arabe
Publié: 2010
This presentation is an introduction on how to provide education for students with special needs. It describes the different categories of disabilities, the role of the various actors in providing education for these students and what leaders need to do to make schools more responsive to children with special educational needs.
Day Four Trainer Plan
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the fourth day of the Phase two training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. It focuses on developing lecture/speaking skills.
Learner Characteristics -Week 2
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on learner characteristics - characteristics at various ages and the individual differences that students display. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's second session.
Competency Based Assessment Plan, Part 5
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource is part five of a competency based assessment plan focusing on delivering workshops and giving feedback. Included are the objectives, required materials, timing, rationale and procedure for completing the assessment. It is used on the fifth day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course. For more information, please see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 6, and part 7 of this resource.
Competency Based Assessment Plan, Part 1
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This resource includes objectives, required material, timing, rationale and procedure for completing a competency-based assessment. It is used on the first day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course. For more information, please see part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, and part 7 of this resource.
Competency Based Assessment Plan, Part 7
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource is part seven of a competency based assessment plan focusing on a final teacher evaluation, rubrics and the closure of the assessment plan. Included are the final objectives, required materials, timing, rationale and procedure for completing the assessment. It is used on the seventh day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course. For more information, please see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, and part 6 of this resource.
Competency Based Assessment Plan, Part 4
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource is part four of a competency based assessment plan focusing on planning and observing workshops. Included are the objectives, required materials, timing, rationale and procedure for completing the assessment. It is used on the fourth day of the Best Practices for Inspectors 2 course. For more information, please see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 5, part 6, and part 7 of this resource.
Sample Lesson Plan: Speaking
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This lesson plan suggests a series of exercises designed to encourage students to speak about every day activities and expand their vocabularies.
"Reluctant" Teachers - Can We Make Them Tick?
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 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.
Adapting and Supplementing Textbooks to Include Language Planning
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, provides an overview of language planning and its role in the classroom. Discussion topics focus on specific methods of how to use language planning to adapt and supplement course books.
Listening Problems ELL Students Have Studying in English University
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This is a list of problems that English Language Learners tend to have when learning how to speak and listen in English.
Trainer Plan Day One
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the first day of the Phase One training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. Included are a list of objectives, orientation activities and instruction to develop and teach language competence.
Language Analysis Grid
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This handout is helpful for English students to map out and understand the form, meaning and use of specific words in the English language.
Trainer Plan Day Four
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This curriculum outlines objectives and activities for the fourth day of the Phase One training session for the Algeria Ministry of Higher Education Faculty Course. The focus of this curriculum is linguistics.
Human Resources Management: Importance for Development of Administration
Langue(s): Arabe
Publié: 2016
Integrating Skills -Week 11
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on integrating skills - the linking of listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. Included are activities/tasks, objectives, reading suggestions, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's eleventh session.
Observation Visit, Stage 3: Post-Teaching Feedback
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2012
This resource, part of the Inspector Manual, provides descriptions of post-observation feedback sessions and practical application for teachers and inspectors. Discussion topics focus on guidelines to incorporating post-observation feedback sessions into the classroom and related resources for teachers.
Teacher's Guide - Grade 11: Circular Motion
Langue(s): Anglais, Arabe
Publié: 2010
This document is a guide for teachers using active learning and conceptual change techniques as they teach circular motion. Included in the guide are activities, advice on how to implement them and answer keys for exercises/homework.
Sections I and II, Table of Contents, Introduction and Overview
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
Sections I and II of the Guide to the Algerian English Curriculum for Middle School Year 4 (MS4) provides the table of contents, introduction and description of the curriculum and its goals.
Clarifying Meaning Worksheet
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This worksheet lists lexical items in one column and ways of clarifying the meaning of those items in another. Teachers and students are asked to clarify each of the items using the method listed next to it.
Improving ESL Learners' Listening Skills: At the Workplace and Beyond
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2011
This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, focuses on how to improve listening skills for language learners. Included is a Q&A that summarizes what is known about the listening process as it relates to adult second language learners.
Leadership for Innovative 21st Century Secondary School Reform: A Shifting Vision
Langue(s): Anglais, Arabe
Publié: 2010
This presentation explains the shift from traditional secondary school structure to "small learning communities." It presents the characteristics and advantages of smaller learning environments and touches upon the role of the principal within them.
Methods of Teaching English -Week 5: Speaking -Part 2
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2010
This presentation is to be used when giving the Methods of Teaching English course entitled Speaking - Part 2 (week 5). It offers a step-by-step outline and includes objectives, tasks and activities for that class.
Day Eight: What to Look for When Observing
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2008
This resource, used on the eighth day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is an overview of the components supervisors should look for while observing English language teachers. The document includes questions and a checklist on the teacher’s lesson objectives, activities and method of assessment.
Day One: ELC
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 2008
This resource, used on the first day of the Best Practices for Supervisors course, is a diagram of the Experiential Learning Cycle process. The four steps in this process include: concrete experience, observations and reflection, formation of abstract concepts and generalizations, and testing implications of concepts in new situations.
Day Five: Algerian English Framework
Langue(s): Anglais
Publié: 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.