On Thursday and Friday 8th & 9th March, a two-day training seminar took place at CENAFFE, as a contiuning part of the cascade phase of the NENA, (Near East and North Africa), RELT, (Regional English Language Teaching), Project.  In attendance were secondary level teacher trainers from 12 different regions of Tunisia, and the two workshop facilitators, Hela Nafti, (ELT School’s Inspector, Ministry of Education), and Andrea Marsh, (ELT Co-ordinator, British Council).  

The seminar was designed to assist the teacher trainers in cascading the RELT project workshops to teachers in their region, and to discuss ways of evaluating the impact of the project, and of ensuring its’ future sustainability.

The semniar began with 5 presentations, each one focusing on a different RELT workshop, (‘Process Writing’, ‘Games from the Internet’, ‘Pronunciation Activities’, ‘Listening Skills’ and ‘Exploiting Authentic Reading Texts’), and each presented by a trainer from a different region.  Following each presentation, there was a chance for everyone assembled to discuss their own experiences of cascading the workshop.  

The afternoon focused on using listening material from the four British Council websites, (Go4English, Teaching English, Learn English and Language Assistant), to create lesson plans, designed to supplement the secondary school English curriculum.

Day Two started with a closer look at the materials available on the Teaching English website, and how these could be used in training sessions.  The workshop was rounded off with a hands-on session at the computers in which the teacher trainers explored a regional online community, created to help English teachers and trainers across the region, share ideas and materials.

Please see the table below for a full list of participating teacher trainers.

	Participant			Region
	Mr Ridha Chakroun			Kebili
	Mrs  Naima Charfi			Ben Arous
	Mr  Med Arbi Ksouri			Ariana
	Mrs Hamida Menchari			Beja
	Mr Raouf Ben Tahar			Sfax
	Mr Sofien Rassaoui			Tozeur
	Mr Fathi Bouguerra			Gabes
	Mr Ahmed Ben Youssef			Nabeul
	Mr Raouf Mabrouk			Gafsa
	Mrs Dalila Oueslati			Zaghouan
	Mohamed Habib Wahiba			Gafsa
	Jaafar Miladi			Medinine