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Program Background
The U.S. Department of State, through the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Branch
of its Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, has selected the University
of Delaware to implement an English teacher training program designed to
support Jordan’s Ministry of Education in its initiative to enhance the
teaching of English at the junior high school level.
Program Goals
- support the Ministry of Education in its ongoing effort to prepare
English teachers at the highest level of competency in language instruction;
- increase the capacity of teachers to conduct training for other EFL
classroom teachers in the use of proven communicative methods of teaching,
in meeting curricular goals, and in integrating supplementary activities
and materials;
- provide several hundred teachers with a plethora of instructional
aids, texts, cds, and other materials (known as “books-in-a-box”) designed
to augment and complement their course textbook;
- forge long-term professional relationships among those Jordanian professionals
selected for training and their US colleagues; and
- reach a highly successful conclusion to this pilot project, as measured
by the number of teachers trained in the use of the provided materials
and activities, thereby ensuring a continuation and expansion of the
training for the future
Project Components
- interactive workshops providing intensive training on current EFL instruction
and teaching methodologies;
- an ongoing interactive seminar series on innovative and effective
ways for classroom teachers to use the textbooks their academies have
adopted for the ninth (or eighth grade) classes;
- introduction to the “books-in-a-box” materials and training in practical
ways teachers might supplement their textbook with the charts, games,
posters, maps, cds, picture dictionaries, and other materials the boxes
contain;
- observations of and exchanging ideas with English as a Second Language
teachers at the public school and university level;
- teaching with technology seminars
- experiential professional development in conducting effective teacher
training. Jordanian participants will design and deliver a one to two
day conference showcasing what they have learned while at the University
of Delaware; and
- a one-week escorted trip to Washington, DC to meet representatives
from the Department of State and other government and private sector
agencies, visit historic and cultural sites, and tour model schools for
teaching English as a Second language and foreign languages.
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