IH Cairo December Free Webinars

International House Cairo is happy to offer three Online seminars for teachers. These seminars are free and will be delivered using the platform zoom. 

Please see more information and register below:

How feedback can influence learning

Date: Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 11 am Egypt time. It's free of charge.
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Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErcO-qrjotGdNoW1FgsvX2Yd3scUVkVQPS

Are you a language teacher evaluating how effective your feedback is?
Do you think students like receiving feedback?
Have you been thinking about the objectives to consider when giving feedback?
Are you looking for different types of feedback techniques suitable for your teaching context?

Come to IH Weekly Professional Development Webinars and get a chance to attend Dalia Ashraf’s webinar and learn more about how feedback can influence learning

In this session, Dalia will discuss how feedback can influence the learning process. She will talk about corrective feedback that might demotivate the students if given insensitively. This session investigates the other interrelated purposes of feedback along with the correction purpose. Motivating learners, improving fluency and developing an autonomous learner should be objectives to consider achieving when giving feedback. It will also focus on when and how to give feedback to ensure its sufficiency and effectiveness. Participants will walk away with different types of feedback techniques suitable for varied teaching contexts.

Trainer: Dalia is a teacher and CELTA tutor. She is the senior academic coordinator at Pharos University in Alexandria (PUA); her role involves mentoring and training teachers, developing the curriculum from A1 to C2, and following up on educational quality . She is a graduate of the Faculty of Education, English Department. She has experience teaching different age groups; she taught students from the national and international sector. She has also taught adults in one to one courses as well as at C1 level. Dalia is also an active member of the Professional Development Unit at the university. She has trained pre-service and in-service teachers in different contexts: language centers, schools and universities. In 2021, Dalia presented at the 7th annual ELT Ireland conference. Dalia has been part of the IH Cairo teacher training programs for schools.

How to design objective test items

Date: Tuesday, Dec 21st, 2021 at 7:30 pm Egypt time. It's free of charge.
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Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrfu6hpzkjHdfbwD_bFYgT1zUCTif82pnZ

Are you a test item writer?
Have you been wondering how to write test items that are objectives?
Are you familiar with the different types of test items?

Join IH Cairo's Weekly Professional Development Webinars and get a chance to attend Dr. Marwa Abdel Mohsen’s webinar and learn more about how to design objective test items.

In this session Marwa will discuss how to design test items that can be objectively scored. The session will highlight the main characteristics of objective items and their different types such as MCQs, matching, short answer, etc.

Trainer: Dr. Marwa Abdel Mohsen is the Head of Language and Translation Department at the College of Language and Communication at the AASTMT. She specializes in Testing and Assessment and teaches Linguistics, Phonetics, Translation, and Language Assessment in graduate and post graduate levels. Dr. Abdel Mohsen also gives assessment training sessions to novice and experienced teachers at school and college levels in several teacher training courses. Her current area of interest in research is online assessment.

How to integrate technology into writing lessons

Date: Sunday, December 26th, 2021 at 11 am Egypt time. It's free of charge.
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Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItfuippzgrHtw9aK_L1xH0Sgh0jJ6YyzdO

Can technology help your students write?
Are you a language teacher aiming to plan lessons with digital tools suitable for a writing class?
Do you think including digital tools in your lessons will affect the students’ motivation towards writing?
Come to IH Cairo's Weekly Professional Development Webinars and get a chance to attend Mahmoud Mokhtar’s webinar and learn more about how to integrate technology into writing lessons
In this session, Mahmoud plans to show how using technology in the classroom can be an essential skill when teaching online or face-to-face. By the end of the webinar, participants will walk away with:

● Tools to organize ideas
● Tools to motivate students to write
● Tools to review and edit writing
● Tools to assess writing online
● Process Approach

Trainer: Mahmoud is a CELTA & TTT certified teacher and Pearson certified PTE trainer with 5 years of experience (5000+ teaching hours) in teaching general and business English and exam preparation courses to different age groups and to students from different countries around the world (Europe, Africa, and the Middle East).
He has a BA degree in English literature and TESOL Methodology K-12 from University of Maryland. Mahmoud has been utilizing technology in teaching English since 2018. Throughout his career, he could experience various tools, websites, and approaches to use when teaching language skills.