| workshop cascading plan | |
| Venue: Al-Majd Hall, Taiz | Date: 14 - 16 February, 2012 |
| Trainers: Manal Alariki & Taha Almonaifi | |
| Name | Governorate |
| Abdul Hadi AlHaj Mohammed | Taiz |
| Abdul Hakim Abdullah Saeed Ahmed | Taiz |
| Abdul-Hakeem Hamoud Saeed Al-Kinany | Taiz |
| Abdulrakkeeb Ali | Taiz |
| Abudul-Salam Ahmed Hamoud Hassan | Taiz |
| Ahmed Abdulhameed Abdalaziz | Taiz |
| Amal Mohammed Al-Taweel | Taiz |
| Eman Ali AlHagagi | Taiz |
| Hameed Ahmed Abdullah Seif | Taiz |
| Khaled Kaid Ahmed Abdu | Taiz |
| Mahmoud Yahya Qassem | Taiz |
| Mohammed Al-Rumim | Taiz |
| Musa Ghaleb | Taiz |
| Mohammed Mahyoub | Taiz |
| Muna Abdulrahman Aljunaid | Aden |
| Kamal Assaqaf | Lahj |
| Adeeb Mohsen Hussein Thabit | Lahj |
| Ameen Yahya Mohammed Abdullah | Lahj |
| Ekhlas Salim Qasem Al Kazimi | Lahj |
| Abduljabbar Hamoad Ahmed Qaed | Ibb |
| Acram Ahmed Mohammed Haider | Ibb |
| Adnan Qaed Abdu Al Gobahi | Ibb |
| Ahmed Hamoud Ali Mohammed Atta | Ibb |
| Ahmed Salem Alawi | Ibb |
| Nabeel Abdu Ali Naser Al Lahabi | Shabwa |
British council concludes TOT workshops regarding crescent English for Yemen in Taiz.
Written by: Acram Mothana Haider.
Ibb City,
Yemenpioneer@yahoo.com
The British council(B.C) in conjunction with the ministry of education has concluded cascading the workshop concerning the English course for Yemen for trainers of English. This workshop also have covered some governorates including Sana'a, , Taiz, Hadramout, Hodeidah, Ibb Aden, Shabwah,lahj, Dhamar, Almahweet, Albaidha, but the destination of workshops being delivered has taken place in pivotal cities, viz, the former four cities mentioned beforehand.
The workshop has been conducted on the 14th of Feb. in Taiz at Almajd hall. It covers 25 trainers gathered from some governorates. The workshop has been inaugurated by an address delivered by the head of training and qualifying department., Mr. Abdu Amen Almekhlafi in which he welcomed on behalf of the education office in Taiz all the trainers praising the great efforts endeavored by His majesty, Mr. Edrees Alqadasi, Projects, Marketing Manager in the B.C as well as couple trainers, Mr. Taha and Miss. Manal Ariki. Then, Mr. Edrees Alqadasi has already delivered a speech expressing his great feeling towards the trainers who come from different cities for participating in the workshop motivating them to make full use of such sessions to improve the quality of teaching and training. What is more, Mr.Taha has also welcomed all being happy to see them congregated for sharing information, ideas, knowledge and experience. Again, he has expressed the necessity to provide some workshops for the supervisors in order to make them update their knowledge. Besides,, Miss. Manal, the second trainer has welcomed the trainers praising the great efforts done by Mr. Edrees Alqadasi. She kindly requested the host trainers to welcome warmly their guest ones coming from outside the city. Then, some verses of Holy Quran have been recited by Nabeel Allahabi followed by a prophetic tradition delivered by the trainer/ Acram Mothana. Moreover, Mr. Taha has allowed the trainers to set the rules for the workshop followed by an ice- breaker carried out by his partner, Manal Ariki.
14th of Feb, 1st session: the session has already started entitled as" Coping With Multi-Level Classes, Differentiation In Action Through Reading and Writing". The trainers have taken part in defining 'differentiation' and how to differentiate followed by free writing activity about a topic the trainers are interested in. Then, five ways of differentiation have been mentioned so the trainers in groups are asked to write down their advantages and disadvantages. Then, the trainers individually ,in pairs and in groups are asked to find out what makes writing difficult followed by the stages of developing writing. Hence, the trainers are asked to match some texts of crescent books to four categories of writing; personal, social, public and creative writing. After that, 'Dictagloss and Writing About famous Person' Activities has brought out some challenge among the Course participants(CPs) promoting the significance about the differentiation in action through reading and writing.
15th of Feb,2nd session: It has started by a report on the 1st session prepared by Trainer(T)/Acram Mothana Haider. The session has concerned with" Integrating skills through group work activities" followed by discussion of difficulties in group work activities and providing the (CPs)with the suitable solutions. Then, an activity on Oman is already done by them filling the table depending on some key guide words. After that 'Jigsaw Reading Activity' is given to three groups and each group has a representative so after the discussion, all the representatives have to move towards another group sharing and exchanging the ideas and information. On the other hand, another workshop has taken place dealing with " Vocab Games and Activities For Primary Level". The (CPs) are regrouped building up many words out of the given individual one. Next, an activity has been given to the (CPS) asking them to change one letter for making new words. Another activity of matching a words with its associative ones followed by activities like ' family circle, Prediction , adjective' and where is the banana accompanied by teaching prepositions with the use of Vocab.
16th of Feb, 3rd session: a report on the 2nd session has been done by T/Mona Algunaid. Then, The 3rd session has started with "The communicative learner Centered Grammar. Trainer/ Manal has motivated the( CPs) asking them to pick up the title of the session. Then, so they have actually got it immediately. She has asked them to comment on the sentence structure below the picture. The (CPs) in groups are asked to define "Grammar(G), Communicative Grammar(C.G) and the communicative language Teaching(C.L.T)" followed by pre-written definitions by preeminent ELT pioneers like, Richards and Rogers,, Lucantoni…etc. Then, 'If Conditional Clauses' cuts-up' are given to the(CPs) so individually , in pairs and in groups they have to match them to their appropriate ones followed by" Letter to Grammar Activity" asking the(CPs) to form phrases or clauses or even sentences depending on the initial letters given, e.g.: ADIF; a day in France' creating some challenge among the (C.Ps) which can be reflected on the primary levels. Then, The' World Activity' asked (C.Ps) to write down the name of the country and the reason for such selection depending on some words given for example, chocolates, coffee, rice…etc.Then, 'Guess Character Activity' sheets are given to the( C.Ps) who have to guess and write individually and compare in pairs the character given regarding age, home, hobbies, job, and other.. Then, in groups they are asked to write down question for every item mentioned beforehand. At last, the session has ended in 'Mistake Maze Activity' which has been really interesting involving motivation, competition and collaboration among all the( C.Ps).
In short, the workshop lasted for three days has been concluded by an address delivered by His honor, Mr. Edrees Alqadasi expressing his deep gratitude and rejoice for the giant efforts done the amazing couple Mr. Taha Almunifi and Miss. Manal Ariki and the trainers themselves coming from different cities to take part which is to be delivered later as soon as possible. Then, Mr. Edrees has honored the trainers handing over certificates attached by taking some photos for each trainer. By the way, Mr. Edrees expresses his great gratitude towards Mr. Hakeem for his hospitality inviting all to dinner at his house.
Note: bouquets of gratitude are gifted to: Mr. Fetwi, Edrees Alqadasi, Manal Ariki, Taha Al Munifi, all the trainers in general and the 2nd group in particular.
Report first Session
The British council in conjunction with the ministry of education has recently been cascading the workshop regarding the Crescent English for Yemen for trainers of English. The workshops have covered many governorates including Sana'a, Hodeidah, Taiz, Ibb, Almahweet, Dhamar, shabwah, lahaj and Almukala.
In Taiz, the workshop has been conducted on the 14th of Feb. at AlMajd hall. It covers 25 trainers gathered from some governorates. The workshop has been inaugurated by an address delivered by the head of training and qualifying department., Mr. Abdu Amen Almekhlafi in which he welcomed on behalf of the education office in Taiz all the trainers praising the great efforts endeavored by His majesty, Mr. Edrees AlQadasi, head of the high studies, marketing and coordinator of the B.C who already supervised on running the training workshops.
In addition, he greeted the couple trainers, Mr. Taha and Miss. Manal Alariqi who are cascading the training sessions to the trainers.
Then, Mr. Edrees alqadasi has already delivered a speech in which he expressed his great feeling towards the trainers who come from different governorates in order to take part in the workshop motivating them to make full use of such sessions so as to improve the quality of teaching.
What is more, Mr.Taha has also welcomed all" I' m very happy to see the colleagues gathered here to improve learning in general. No one is more talented than the other because we are here to support each other. Such workshops will provide good opportunities for exchanging ideas and knowledge and we try to find some ways to cascade workshops", he said. "It is the role of the teachers to follow up, we have to provide some workshops for the supervisors also in order to make them update their knowledge.
Moreover, Miss/ Manal, the second trainer has welcomed the trainers praising the giant efforts done by Mr. Edrees AlQadasi. She kindly requested the host trainers to welcome warmly their guest ones coming from outside the city.
Then, some verses of Holy Quran were recited by Nabeel Allahabi followed by a prophetic tradition delivered by the trainer/ Acram Mothana.
Similarly, Mr. Taha allowed the trainers to set the rules for the workshop followed by an ice- breaker carried out by his partner, Manal Alariqi.
Now, the sessions has already started entitled as" coping with multi-level classes, differentiation in action through reading and writing. The trainers have been asked to define the multi- level class through an activity going around the hall to select the best alternative. Next, the trainers have taken part in defining the term, differentiation and how to differentiate followed by free writing activity about a topic which the trainers are interested in. Then, the session has mentioned the five ways of differentiation so the trainers are asked to write down the advantages and the disadvantages of the five ones.
On the other hand, the trainers are asked to find out what makes writing difficult followed by the stages of developing writing. Then, in pairs and groups respectively the trainers are asked to match some texts of crescent books to four categories of writing; personal, social, public and creative writing. After that, an activity entitled as Dictagloss brought out some challenge among the trainers followed by graded tasks which allowed the trainers to find out the similarities and the differences among their learners.
Prior to the end, an activity has been done well in a funny way as ' writing about a famous person', which helped the trainers and the teachers to create some different amasing stories, that's why this promotes the significance of what the differentiation is in action through reading and writing. At last, Mr. Taha concluded the whole first session by writing the conclusion on the flip chart and clarified it briefly.
Broadly speaking, the session, though, pressed, it has included more than fourteen activities allowing all the trainers to involve individually, in pairs and in groups.
Prepared by :
Akram Muthana Haidar & Abdul Hakim Abdullah Saeed
Report Second Session
The second session began by a report of the first session summed up briefly. The second session, entitled as" Integrating skills through group work activities, has started by brainstorming activity for some words beginning with the letter ' c' done by four groups reflects integration and collaboration through integrated skills. Then, difficulties in group work activities are discussed with the ' participants' trainers (PTs) so they overlap that difficulties by providing such suitable solutions. Then, dealing with large groups can be beneficial and profitable because of the high energy, participation and also competition among the learners themselves. Next, issues relating to large groups and good learning can be achieved by involvement, effectiveness, preparation, variation, application and motivation. Then, an activity on Oman is already done by the (PTs) filling the table depending on some key guide words. After that, a jigsaw reading activity is given to three groups of the (PTs) and each group has a representative so after the discussion, all the representatives moved towards another group sharing and exchanging the ideas and information.
On the other hand, the second phase of the workshop deals with another session entitled as" vocab games and activities for primary level. The session has started by picking up the right phoneme of '………………..'.Then, the (PTs) are regrouped in form of three being instructed to build up many words out of the given individual one. So those who will catch more words would be the winner. In other words, the teacher should select some suitable vocab which suit the level of the learners ( Ls) and can be used with the same and the multi-level and the teacher should avoid those vocab which repeats the same letters. Next, an activity has been given to the (PTs) who are to change one letter in order to make new words. Then, there are essential steps in learning vocab as Hatch and Brown has showed. Another activity of matching a words with its associative ones followed by the activity of ' family circle', so the (PTs) are working in groups going around to write the appropriate words into their suitable circles. Again, the activity of prediction is demonstrated so the (PTs) are asked to write some possible and relevant words regarding a famous person- Columbus- and anyone has caught such similar words has to say loudly'" yes". What is more, the adjective activity is given to four groups of the (PTs), so they go around building some adjectives to each vocab. Prior to the end, broken activity is given to the (PTs) so the (PTs) have to match the two halves to make correct vocab. At last, (PTs) can also practice" where the banana", activity so they have to colour the words they hear use them to clarify the usage of prepositions with the vocab. In short, the workshop has been concluded by writing some points on a flip chart summarizing it to the (PTs).
Report :3rd session: The Communicatve Learner Centred Grammar.
Prepared by: Acram Mothana Haider.
The third session has concrened with the communicatve learner centred grammar. It has commenced with the holy qur'an recited by mr. Mahmaoud followed by a tradition performed by one of the female course participnts(CPs). along with words of wisedom read by Mr. Mohammed AlRumaim. Afterwards, the session has started by Miss. Manal motivating the( CPs) to pick up the titile of the currrent session so they have actually caught it immeditaley. She has distributed the sheets asking them to comment on the sentence structure below the picture. After that, the (CPs) are asked to to define grammar(G), Communicative Grammar(C.G) and the communicative language Teaching(C.L.T) followed by pre-written defintions as well as providing the C.ps with sheets containing various ones written by preeminent ELT pioneers for instance, Richards and Rogers,, Lucantononi…etc.
Besides, Miss. Manal has handed over 'If Conditional Clauses' cuts-up to the (C.Ps) who stood up going around to match the clauses to their apprpraite results in mingling groups. Then, " letter to grammar activity", delivered by Mr. Taha who asked the trainers to write some letters in the form of trans-over groups in order to form phrases or clauses or even sentences depending on the initial letters given, e.g: ADIF; a day in France. Thus, this creates some sort of challenge among the (C.Ps) which vcan be reflected on the primary levels.
Similarly, the' world Activity' has been delivered and exeplifiedd by Miss. Manal. The (C.Ps) are given some words as chocolates, coffee, bizza,…etc so they are asked to write down the name of the country and the reason for such selection. In mingling groups the responses are given
After that,' Guess Character Activity' sheets are given to the( C.Ps) so they have to guess and write individually the character given regarding age, home, hobbies, job, and other followed by comparing in pairs the right data. Then, in groups they are asked to write down question for every item mentioned beforehand.
Again, Mr. Taha has written some Modal Aux.( M.A)on a flip chart showing aspects of certainty, probability and possibility e.g, who will, won't, might, might not, then, according to some sentences given below that M.A written on that flip chart, the CPs have to choose( M.A) according to the information mentioned in their sheets regarding ' Guess character activity'.
At last, the session has ended in 'Mistake Maze Activity', delivered by Miss. Manal in which, there are 14 sentences written on the top left side of the sheet and there are some right sentences and some wrong so the (C.ps) should start from the point' IN' following the black arrow if the sentence is correct in attempt to reach to th final point' OUT' whereas tending to track the other arrow nearby if the sentence is incorrect so this activity was interesting and amazing creating motivation, competition and collaboration among all the( C.Ps) in groups.
In short, the workshop lasted for three days has been concluded by a n address delivered by His Majesty, Mr. Edrees Alqadasi who again express his deep gratitude for the giant efforts done the amazing couple Mr. Taha Almunifi and Miss. Manal Alariqi and the trainers themsleves who come from various governorates to take part in this significant workshop which is to be delivered later as soon as possible. Then, MR. Edrees has honored the trainers handing over certificates attached by taking some photos for each trainer. By the way, Mr. Edrees expresses his great gratitude for Mr.Hakim for his hospitality inviting all to dinner at his house.
Inauguration the training course
افتتاحية الدورة
On 16th February , the last day , ending the training and giving the certificates for trainers
