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Tips On Facilitation For Teacher Educators, Center For International Education

Leadership and Teacher Development (LTD)

23-item list of tips on facilitation, in both English and Arabic. For example

1. Implement a system that encourages every person to participate in discussions and activities. Provide a structure for participation.

2. Come to the workshops/training well prepared. Have all the materials and handouts you will need.

3. Make yourself approachable to participants by greeting them, learning their names, having informal conversations with them.

Teacher Educator Enhancement Strategy (Tees), Center For International Education

Leadership and Teacher Development (LTD)

This teacher educator enhancement strategy (TEES) aims to create a comprehensive and holistic enhancement system that meets the needs of Ministry of Education personnel and teacher educators. This document lays out the preliminary enhancement design in order to solicit feedback and insights from Leadership and Teacher Development (LTD) program stakeholders. The strategy includes: 1) the enhancement program goal and objectives; 2) the principles and rationale that drive the enhancement program; 3) the necessary tools to be created; and 4) the detailed operational enhancement methodology and design.

Portfolio Of Professional Practice (Popp) For Teacher Educators, Center For International Education

Leadership and Teacher Development (LTD)

A PoPP is a collection of work that highlights and demonstrates my knowledge and skills of professional practice as a teacher educator. The rationale for creating my PoPP is to:

• Provide opportunities to set concrete goals for my practice as a teacher educator;
• Plan and articulate specific strategies to attain my goals of becoming an effective teacher educator;
• Serve as a learning instrument and provide structure by which to gather data;
• Reflect upon data and guide improvements in my professional practice as a teacher educator;
• Offer the opportunity to critique my work and evaluate the effectiveness of my practice as …

Teacher Educator Enhancement Orientation - Workshop 1 Facilitator's Guide, Center For International Education

Leadership and Teacher Development (LTD)

These notes outline the goal and objectives of each workshop, the necessary materials, the preparation needed, and learning activities conducted during the trainings for the five disciplines (Arabic, English, Math, Science, and Technology). The notes model the principles of “Learning Circle” development, “Action Research”, and “Portfolio of Professional Practice” use. The agenda describes a participatory enhancement design where participants practice the essential techniques. The agenda details how to introduce and work with the tools mentioned above.

Teacher educators participate in LCs that involve four workshop sessions, action research projects, and on-going intersession meetings in order to master LC development, action …

Portfolio Of Professional Practice (Popp) For Teachers, Center For International Education

Leadership and Teacher Development (LTD)

A PoPP is a collection of work that highlights and demonstrates my knowledge and skills of professional practice as a teacher educator. The rationale for creating my PoPP is to:

• Provide opportunities to set concrete goals for my practice as a teacher educator;
• Plan and articulate specific strategies to attain my goals of becoming an effective teacher educator;
• Serve as a learning instrument and provide structure by which to gather data;
• Reflect upon data and guide improvements in my professional practice as a teacher educator;
• Offer the opportunity to critique my work and evaluate the effectiveness of my practice as …

Teacher Educator Enhancement Workshop 1 Agenda, Center For International Education

Leadership and Teacher Development (LTD)

GOAL: To present and practice the overall principles and tools of the TEEP program (Learning Circle development, Action Research Inquiry, and Portfolio development)

OBJECTIVES: At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Recognize multiple ways of knowing, learning, teaching, and approaching problems of practice
• State sources of information about problems of practice
• State approaches to address problems of practice
• Define and describe the Action Research Inquiry Cycle
• Use the Action Research Package to practice AR between workshop days
• Define and describe the use of the Portfolio of Professional Practice
• Explain what are useful data that constitute credible …