ATEL Nationwide Workshops

February 2012

Dear Principal,

Dear Colleague,

ATEL sincerely greets you and wishes you a successful academic year.

Since the aim is professional development to improve the teacher’s performance, ATEL in collaboration with the British Council decided to launch a new series of regional workshops for English language educators at all levels in Lebanon.

Workshops will be delivered in seven regions around Lebanon.

ATEL workshops are FREE of charge a) for ATEL members when showing their 2012 membership, and b) for those who become members during the workshop by paying 25,000L.L.

Non-members will be charged 15,000L.L. per workshop.

You are kindly requested to fill in the registration form below. The registration form should be mailed maximum 3 WORKING days prior to the workshop.

You can mail your forms to: ATEL P.O. Box: 90-1479, Jdeidet-El-Metn,

Or Fax it to: 01-490226, Or email to: atel_lb@hotmail.com

Administrators and coordinators are most welcome to attend.

Certificates of attendance will be distributed immediately after each workshop.

For more information, please contact 03- 329979 or 03-728473

Best regards,

ATEL Executive Committee

Workshops Registration Form ATEL

Date	Time	Location	Topic	Trainer
Saturday, Feb. 11	8:30 – 12:30	SSCC Bauchrieh	A- Putting the Fifth Skill to Work	John McRae
Monday, Feb. 13	3:30 – 6:30	Ajyal Saida School– Saida (near Seray)	A- Putting the Fifth Skill to Work B- Developing Speaking & Writing for Young Learners (K-8)	John McRae Hanadi Mirza
Tuesday, Feb. 14	3:30 – 6:30	Kamel Youssef Jaber Center – Nabatieh	A- Putting the Fifth Skill to Work	John McRae
Wednesday, Feb. 15	3:30 – 6:30	Greenfield College – Beirut - Airport Street	A- Putting the Fifth Skill to Work	John McRae
Thursday, Feb. 16	3:30 – 6:30	National Library - Chouf	A- Putting the Fifth Skill to Work	John McRae
Friday, Feb. 17	3:30 – 6:30	Rawdet El Fayhaa- English Branch -Tripoli	A- Putting the Fifth Skill to Work B- Developing Speaking & Writing for Young Learners (K-8)	John McRae Hanadi Mirza
Saturday, Feb. 18	8:30 – 12:30	SSCC Rassieh - Zahle	C- Poetry as a Means of English Language Teaching	Andrew Johnson

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Workshops Abstracts

A- Putting the Fifth Skill to work – John McRae

Professor John McRae from the University of Nottingham will outline the Five Skills approach and discuss practical samples of how to make it work in class, with reading texts at various levels.  John introduced the Five Skills approach to reading at the ATEL conference in May 2012.  This workshop is designed to help teachers apply it practically.

Target Audience: Teachers & coordinators of all levels

B- Developing Speaking & Writing for Young Learners (K-8) – Hanadi Mirza

Teachers will be exposed to a wide variety of activities that they can use in class to develop their students’ oral and written communication. The problems that learners face in speaking and writing will be discussed and practical solutions and suggestions for improvement will be offered.

Target Audience: KGs up to grade 8 language teachers & coordinators

C- Poetry as a Means of English Language Teaching – Andrew johnson

Target Audience: Primary & Intermediate teachers & coordinators