Program Name: 2. Math and Science Teacher Training Workshops
This 25-hour workshop is offered to math and science teachers. The workshop provides them with training within a framework of a communicative teaching approach. It strongly emphasizes interactive instructional strategies, which build up trainees’ teaching competencies and skills when presenting and teaching together with planning classroom tasks and activities, as well as assessment concepts, forms and rubrics that are instrumental to
students’ motivation, progress and achievement. No OEPT is required before attending the workshop.
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this workshop, the trainees will be able to: 1. Demonstrate a supportive classroom environment by establishing classroom rapport
Topics Include:
Classroom Management:
•Building Rapport •Managing Learner Behavior •Classroom Grouping: Group Work, Pair Work, Mingling Activities and Individual Work. •Shifting from a Teacher Centered to a Learner Centered Classroom: Lecturing versus
Interactive Teaching
Lesson Staging and Teaching Strategies:
• Stages of a Lesson: Pre-presentation, Presentation and Production Stages Pre-presentation Strategies:
•Icebreakers, recyclers and warmers or lead-ins. Presentation Strategies:
•Elicitation: How to extract the new lesson from the learners using interactive techniques. •Checking Understanding. •Board Organization
Production Strategies:
•Effective Setting up of a Classroom Activity. •Giving and Taking Feedback on Learners’ Production Activities •Error Correction Techniques.
Assessment:
Meaning of Assessment
Formative versus Summative Assessment
The 3 pillars of assessment: Fairness, Reliability and Validity