CRITERIA TO JUDGE MATERIALS IN EFL TEACHERS PROGRAM

Aims and objectives

Student teacher’s role

Cultural issues

Teacher trainer’s role

Teaching materials (theory-practice)

Knowledge by theory creating-processes

-Learn from experience-Build professional development

-Create situations/self direct theory

Student teachers active role

-Teaching knowledge through inductive approaches

Researching on teaching issues

-Meaningful and powerful learning from experiences

Collaborative peer-coaching

Contextual factors of local culture

Model educational approaches

-Promote professional development by researching

-Peer-supported learning: pre-service/in-service

-Input of socio-cultural factors

-Approaches and guidelines (theory and practice)

-Become reflective teachers

-Insight of how to teach

Taken from Rahimi (2008). What do we want teaching -materials for in EFL teacher training programs? Adapted by Duque, D., Pinto, A. & Pinto, I. (2015). Language Learning Resources (module), Universidad de Caldas, Manizales.