An Arabic language class at International College, Beirut, Lebanon
Today we visited International College teachers' classrooms who have been through the first three days of our six day SPEC training. We did the first three days of training in September and will do the second three days starting Thursday. I visited classes in the Ras Beirut school (a five minute walk from where we are staying) while Bruce visited Ain Aar campus which is located about an hour from here. It is always fun to see what the teachers are doing and to see if they "get it". Many do, some don't.
The students in this picture are studying Arabic language. Their task was to, in groups of four or five, look at a photo of a bluebird and write about it. I'd describe it in more detail but I don't read Arabic very well (i.e., not at all) and my understanding of the task was interpreted to me by one of our wonderful hosts. You don't need to know the language however to see the tools and techniques that we have taught them being put into practice. As I understood it the different groups were to interpret and write about different aspects of the picture. For example one group was to write about what they specifically could see in the picture such as the bird itself, the tree, etc. Another group had to write about how they felt about the picture. The teacher used a nice warm up activity that only took about thirty seconds but got the students' attention. She used a variety of our tools to get the students working in teams, keeping them focused, and producing quality work. It was great fun to see. You can see in the photo that technology is common here in the way of the Smart Board. Tomorrow we trade places and I go to Ain Aar and Bruce stays in the city. Oh by the way....for those of you in the frosty Northeast USA, it was in the low 70's today with bright sun and no wind. I wore a fleece vest to work but it was too hot to keep on. :-)
The students in this picture are studying Arabic language. Their task was to, in groups of four or five, look at a photo of a bluebird and write about it. I'd describe it in more detail but I don't read Arabic very well (i.e., not at all) and my understanding of the task was interpreted to me by one of our wonderful hosts. You don't need to know the language however to see the tools and techniques that we have taught them being put into practice. As I understood it the different groups were to interpret and write about different aspects of the picture. For example one group was to write about what they specifically could see in the picture such as the bird itself, the tree, etc. Another group had to write about how they felt about the picture. The teacher used a nice warm up activity that only took about thirty seconds but got the students' attention. She used a variety of our tools to get the students working in teams, keeping them focused, and producing quality work. It was great fun to see. You can see in the photo that technology is common here in the way of the Smart Board. Tomorrow we trade places and I go to Ain Aar and Bruce stays in the city. Oh by the way....for those of you in the frosty Northeast USA, it was in the low 70's today with bright sun and no wind. I wore a fleece vest to work but it was too hot to keep on. :-)
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