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We work with the Ministry of Education, and UNRWA to provide training for English language teachers, access to resources, network and support for their own language development. We also run development workshops for undergraduate English students and trainee teachers.
Since 2008, we have been running a major English language trainer training and teacher training programme for government and UNRWA school teachers in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and UNRWA. This programme aims to support the government’s objective of continuing to improve the learning of students by enhancing the skills of teachers.
In 2009, we trained 46 supervisors and teachers from the West Bank and Gaza who in turn trained approximately 1000 teachers in the subject of Classroom Language, specifically adapted to the needs of the national curriculum through English for Palestine.
In 2010, we will continue to work with this group of trainers and also this summer we will train a new group of trainers. Following the training both groups will cascade this training to other teachers in the West Bank and Gaza. By the end of this academic year, we expect more than 2000 teachers to benefit from this programme. Also, all the trainees that attended the training of trainers will sit for the TKT module 3 exam in September/October 2010.
We are working on a project for an English Reading and Literature Club for students at Al-Aqsa University. As well as speakers from Palestine, we are also arranging sessions with UK speakers by video-conference.
In 2009 we ran a course on “Lesson planning and use of resources for language teaching” for University Language Centre teachers at universities across the West Bank. We are hoping to follow this up with further training for university teachers in 2010.
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