Tutorial on Access Teacher Training. Moldova, March, 2015

"INNOVATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING" TRAINING TUTORIAL

The "Innovation in English Language Teaching" Training aims to instruct 10 Access teachers and

teacher assistants on modern trends and methodology in teaching English as a Foreign Language

(EFLT), using content-/project-/task-based instruction through a learner-centered, activity-based,

communicative approaches.

The trainers and mentors will provide value-added content in the areas of technology and

information sharing.

The "Innovation in English Language Teaching training comprises the following 8 sections, which

will guide the participants through the instruction process:

1. Training Description; 2. Trainers and Mentors; 3. Training Participants; 4. Training Assignments; 5. Training Group Work; 6. Online Mentorship; 7. Discussion Forum; 8. Training Resources.

1. TRAINING DESCRIPTION:

This way, each of the participants will go through a

three stage instructional process: face to face

trainings, online instruction and mentoring,

working independently online with the instructor,

and later on through independent practice to apply

your knowledge, while teaching Access students,

develop projects/lesson plans, using up-to-date

teaching approaches and share your acquired

experience with other Access teachers and teachers

from your school.

To follow the life-long learning philosophy,

the "Innovation in English Language

Teaching" Access teacher training will

strengthen the status of the 21st Century

Educator!!!

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The training will support a blended learning and will comprise

6 -week modules, accordingly:

Period Event Thematic content

March, 07 Access Teacher

Training

Start-up:

Assignment 1

and

Assignment 2

Assignment 1: Introduction into

Innovation in English

Language Teaching

Training;

Assignment 2: Authentic Teaching:

Using newspapers in

classes;

Additional Assignments:

Game-based

Instruction: An

innovative EFLT

approach;

Interactive Ways to Use

Films in the Classroom.

March, 9-

15

Online

Instruction:

Assignment 3

Project-based Instruction in

English Environment

March,

16-22

Online

Instruction:

Assignment 4

Integrating Blogs into EFLT

March,

23- 28

Online

Instruction:

Assignment 5

Task-based Instruction

March,

30-April ,

5

Online

Instruction:

Assignment 6

Formative Assessment in EFL

Blended Instruction

April, 15-

16

Access Teacher

Training

Close-Up

Final Presentation of Newly

Developed Access Instructive

Materials

Guest speaker: Eve Smith, ELF,

USA.

The "Innovation in English

Language Teaching" Training is

financially supported by

US Embassy to Moldova

and provided by

American Councils for

International Education to

Moldova.

This Teacher Training major goal

is to foster the

professional development of 10

novice Access teachers and

teacher assistants from 5 regions

of the country,

such as Ribnita, Grigoripol,

Causeni, Hincesti, and Edinet, for

an improved quality-based Access

students' instruction.

This way, both Access teachers

and teacher assistants will be

invited to discuss and express their

opinions on the up-to-

date EFLT methodological topics,

referring to

integrating technology, media and

interactive activities into Access

teaching-learning-

evaluation process.

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The participants will have to work individually and

collaboratively with their Mentors on the Assignments tasks.

Discussion Forum is a virtual social space where Access

instructors will be chatting with each other on particular

Assignment topics, following 3 rules:

a. once a week ( by Wednesday) an appointed Conversation Moderator will start a Conversation

Thread (discussion) on the instructive topic

presented in the same week. As a Conversation

Moderator , you will have the role to coordinate

and monitor the entire discussion, replying to

comments the other participants will post as a

response to your prompt/question. Your question

should generate an interesting discussion among

your colleagues, who will share their teaching

experience with you. The prompt should

include a general statement based on Assignment

topic and a question you would like your

colleagues to express their opinion.

Discussion Prompt Sample:

Planning a lesson involves the

teachers skill in the selection of the

material, the techniques or method or

approaches to be employed, the

activities to be taken up, and in getting

the pupils involved in the successful

completion of the lesson assignments.

It is a complete preview of the

difficulties likely to occur in the course

of the lesson, of introducing new

teaching approaches and strategies

while using various updated

technologies. What difficulties do you

meet in planning a lesson/activity for

Access classes, and what you usually

do to overcome each of them?

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b. once a week (by Sunday) an appointed Conversation Wrapper will end up a Conversation thread,

making general conclusion of the colleagues' shared opinions as answers to the moderator's prompt.

c. each week by Saturday each participants will have to reply to Conversation Moderators prompt, and

comment on 3 prompt-comments of their colleagues.

The Convesation among all participants on each Assignment will be monitored on the following

Assignment Discussion Forums ( for e.g. Discussion Forum for Assignment 2):

Discussion Forum for Assignment

1:

Introduction into"

Innovation in the English Language Teaching" Training

Discussion Forum for

Assignment 2:

Authentic Teaching:

Using newspapers

in classes


Assignment 3:

Project-based Instruction in

English Environment


Assignment 4:

Integrating Blogs into

EFLT


Assignment 5:

Task-based Instruction


Assignment 6:

Formative Assessment

in EFL Blended

Instruction

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Online Mentorship

During "Innovation in English Language

Teaching" Training the participants will be

mentored online by a group of professionals,

current experts in education, language didactics,

and extracurricular activities through an

individualized approach.

This way, each one will receive online support

while realizing Assignments' tasks. You will be

chatting with your mentor through Ask Your

Mentor for Advice (Online Mentorship

Forum), and your comments/answers to each

Assignment tasks.

The Mentorship assistance will be offered

accordingly:

1. Dr. Sheryl Feinstein will be mentoring Access -Causeni

instructors:

Svetlana Coiceva ( teacher),

Gheorghe Taran ( teacher assistant);

2. Diana Retcu will be mentoring Access

Hincesti instructors:

Daria Prozorovschi ( teacher),

Margarita Bicec ( teacher assistant);

3. Corina Ceban will be mentoring Access-

Ribnita instructors:

Vera Caprarenco ( teacher),

Mihai Soltan (teacher-assistant);

4. Svetlana Lungu will be mentoring Access-

Edinet instructors:

Emma Matriniuc ( teacher),

Arina Tcaciuc ( teacher-assistant);

5. Doina Morari will be mentoring Access-

Grigoriopol instructors:

Natalia Constantinov ( teacher),

Olga Taran ( teacher-assistant).

Click on Mentors Forum to address a question

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Training Participants: 10 Access teachers and teacher assistants from 5 regions: Hincesti,

Grigoriopol, Ribnita, Causeni and Edinet.

Emma Matriniuc, teacher,

Access -Edinet

Arina Tcaciuc, teacher

assistant, Access-Edinet

Natalia Constantinov, teacher,

Access-Grigoriopol

Olga Taran, teacher assistant,

Access-Grigoriopol

Svetlana Coiceva, teacher,

Acces-Causeni

Gheorghe Taran , teacher

assistant, Access-Causeni

Vera Caprarenco, teacher,

Access-Ribnita

Mihai Soltan, teacher

assisatnt, Access-Ribnita

Daria Prozorovschi, teacher,

Access-Hincesti

Margareta Bicec, teacher

assistant, Access-Hincesti

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Instructors and Mentors:

Prof. Sheryl Feinstein

Professor at Augustana

University, South Dakota,

USA

Chair of the Education

Department

Director of the on-line

Master of Arts in Education

Program

Dr. Daniela Munca-Aftenev

Executive Director at American

Councils Moldova

Open World Program Coordinator

Professional Fellows Program

Coordinator

Olga Morozan

Access Program Coordinator

Senior lecturer, Institute of

Educational Sciences

American Language

Center Instructor

iEARN Moldova Country

Coordinator

Svetlana Lungu

Access Program Teacher,

EFL Teacher, "Mihai

Eminescu" Lyceum,

Chisinau

Diana Retcu

EFL Teacher, V.Alecsandri

Lyceum, Ungheni

Former Access Program Instructor

Corina Ceban,

EFL Teacher, V.Alecsandri

Lyceum,Balti

Former Access Program Instructor

Doina Morari

Access Microscholarship Program

Assistant

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