English Language Office
Distance education programs
Workshops given by RELOs and EL-Specialists via digital video conference or webcasting (webinars)
Workshop topics include: Teaching EFL Writing; Teaching Critical Thinking; Learning styles/Multiple Intelligences and Motivation; Music in the Classroom; Authentic Materials; Assessment/Testing; English for Academic/Specific Purposes; Selecting software: What to look for and where to look; Selecting online learning tools; Better Internet searches: Google and beyond; Getting started in setting up and running an effective learning center: the logistics of helping learners be more self-directed; Creating collaborative online courses; Tips about writing for publication (computer tools and more); + units from Shaping the Way We Teach English.
E-Teacher Program
The 7 E-Teacher courses introduce the most recent English language teaching methods and techniques, offer the opportunity to engage in an innovative distance-learning program that employs the latest in modern technology, and provide direct access to U.S. experts. All participants must be nominated through American embassies or Regional English Language Offices.
Building Teaching Skills through the Interactive Web
Critical Thinking in the EFL Curriculum
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Best Practices
English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Assessment
Methods Course I: Survey of Best Practices in TESOL
Methods Course II: Developing EFL Literacy through Project-Based Learning
Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL)
Shaping the Way We Teach Online Course
This new online teacher training course is developed from the U.S. Department of State's Office of English Language Programs and the University of Oregon's American English Institute's 14 module Shaping the Way We Teach English video program. The series incorporates classroom scenes from around the world and is accompanied by a teacher trainer manual along with additional readings. Modules from Shaping form the basis for collaborative work with observations, interactions, discussions, and the creation of teaching plan projects.
Exploring Web 2.0: Tools for Classroom Teaching and Professional Development online course.
In this three-week course, Teachers will learn how to: articulate the origin and basic characteristics of Web 2.0 applications; observe a variety of uses of Web 2.0 tools in educational settings; gain a basic understanding of and participate in social bookmarking, tagging, blogging, podcasting and using wikis; engage in online, collaborative brainstorming on the topic of human rights; search Web directories for human rights resources and create a folksonomy of resources using social bookmarking and tagging techniques; participate in asynchronous forum discussions on a variety of course topics; subscribe via RSS to participants' blogs and other Web resources; communicate with the instructor and other course participants via chat and/or VoiP; investigate the use of social software for humanitarian purposes with a focus on microfinance; create materials for immediate use in the classroom or for professional development.
The above online programs are sponsored by RELO Amman. For more information contact Salwa Rihani
00962-6-590-6514
00962-6-592-0023
Rihanis@state.gov