10 Extra Credit Points!!

Dear Participants,

Thanks for your patience and great diligence in order to meet the requirements of our two workshops. Hopefully you've had a fruitful learning experience. I believe that most of you have done really well. So thank you for making me proud. Just before we wrap up, care to earn 10 extra credit points to boost your grades??!!

If you can afford 20 more minutes to fill out a post-perceptions survey in which you express your opinion on the use of technology tools, you can well deserve the extra credit points.

Please note that this is totally optional and anonymous.

Cheers,

Link: Workshop Post-Perceptions Survey

Critique successful submission: Wed, Aug 19

Dear Participants,

Plz find below a list of all those who managed to successfully meet the deadline for submitting the critique. I emailed 3 of you for problems with their submissions.

-Abeer Abdel Aziz & Manar Saad (not meeting the minimum requirements of 200-250 words in "essay" form)

-Abeer Farouk (blank submission)

Plz note that no further submission is necessary or will be considered for that task (except for those above-mentioned).

Thank you all for your prompt and timely submissions.

Cheers,

Hanaa

Speaking Critique Grading Rubric

Dear Participants,

Please find below the grading rubric for the Speaking Critique Task.

Speaking Rubric
-Was the activity type communicative? Why (not)? 20 points
-Identify the different roles of learners, teachers and materials. 30 points
-Highlight the strengths. 25 points
-What are your suggestions for improvement? 25 points

Quiz successful submission - 1st deadline

Dear Participants,

I had a quick look at your submitted quizzes and sent out initial reports and recommendations separately. Please find below a list of those who managed to successfully meet deadline 1.

On another note, those who are retaking the quiz, make sure you are elaborate enough in your essay items (50-100 words)providing enough backing and/or analysis of each weakness. Giving too brief answers is not advisable.

Best wishes

Post survey successful submission - deadline 1

Dear Participants,

10 out of 18 managed to successfully submit their surveys by the first deadline, Sun 16, 2009. I sent out 2 emails requesting re-submissions for those who did not meet the minimum requirements for the commentary (100-250 words). All those who successfully met the requirements have earned 20% of their grade in Teaching Methodologies. More detailed reports will follow.

Cheers,

Edison's famous quote

Dear Participants,

I've just come across Edison's inspiring quote I referred to yesterday:

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -- Thomas Edison

I personally find it transformational. How about you? What learning philosophy/approach underlies this quote? How relevant is this philosophy to foreign language learning and teaching?

Teaching Speaking Workshop Handout

Dear Participants,

Please find below the link to the workshop handout for your reference.

Best wishes,

Hanaa Khamis

Link: Speaking Handout

Important : Methods & Approaches Summary Table

Dear Participants,

Please find below the link for the scanned document of the summary table for methods & approaches (Nunan).

Thanks are due to Mr Mostafa for inspiring this idea to save us time and effort:) This is a constant reminder on how learning is a two-way never-ending process. Lifelong learners (i.e. teachers) learn from each other as long as they live:)

Thanks for being such an attentive and engaged audience during both workshops. Good luck with your HW tasks.

Cheers,

Hanaa Khamis

Link: Scanned Document

Speaking Wrap-up Assessment

Critique (200-250 word)


Reflect on the lesson your group demonstrated today discussing the following points:
Was the activity type communicative? Why (not)?
Identify the different roles of learners, teachers and materials.
Highlight the strengths.
What are your suggestions for improvement?
N.B. Submitted online (Check submission link on Blog --- Scroll down)

Link: Speaking Activity Critique

Post Survey

Dear Participants,

Below is the link to the post survey. For those who already did the pre-survey, just revisit the same assumptions. For those who haven't done the pre-survey, you just take the post survey for the first time. Both groups need to add a commentary on the statements they agree with supporting them with reasons and relevant information from the workshop.

Cheers,

Hanaa Khamis

Link: Post survey

Reflections on Teaching Methodology Workshop

Dear Participants,

It is a great pleasure to have met with you. It is my hope that you have found the workshops of benefit. Share your reflections on teaching methods by completing the following statement:

One thing I've learned/I'm still struggling with/I plan to explore further is ................................

Teaching Methodologies Workshop Handout

Dear Participants,

To download a copy of the workshop PowerPoint presentation, go to the URL below:

http://hanaakhamis.pbworks.com/Notting-Hill

right-click the link titled: Teaching Methods Workshop Handout, and then Save Target As.

Cheers,

Hanaa Khamis

Teaching Methodology Assessment

Dear Participants,

It was great to meet all of you today. I hope you've enjoyed today's training workshop. To wrap up, your assessment is based on two tasks.

1- Online Quiz (120 points = 80%)
2- Post Survey Commentary (30 points = 20%)

Methods of Teaching (Pre-survey)

Dear Participants,

Welcome to our workshop on Teaching Methods. You are kindly asked to complete this pre-survey before the workshop scheduled on Friday, August 14, 1.15 pm - 5.00 pm. The survey will be closed by Wednesday, August 12, 12.00 midnight (extended one day).

Thanks and looking forward to meeting you all.

Hanaa Khamis


Link: Pre-survey

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