Teacher’s guide
- The objectives of this courseware:
In response to technological advancement, this courseware was designed. Blog is an electronic collection of multimedia-rich learning materials combined with Intermediate level of tutorial interactivity. In this blog students are provided with interactive tutorials designed to develop their knowledge and understanding of grammar, a database of resources, hypertext links to other sections of the courseware or to external websites and self testing exercises which provide formative feedback. It can also be independently accessed by learners at any time and used at their own pace.
Teachers can adopt and adapt more of this type genre to be used in their targeted lessons.
Actually, teaching grammar plays a central role in every ESL / EFL teacher’s classroom.
- Learning style of students:
English for Islamic Studies should be used because students learn in different ways and some find a visual learning environment more helpful than a purely textual one – courseware has the capacity to provide a visual (and audio) context for student learning, enhancing the more conventional textual format. Obviously, the more varieties of learning opportunities the better your chances are that each student will be able to learn the grammar point well.
If you have a class of learners with similar learning styles, you can afford to use a similar approach. However, if you have a class of mixed learning styles then you need to try to provide instruction using as many different methods as possible.
- Inductive and Deductive:
Inductive is known as a ‘bottom up’ approach. In other words, students discovering grammar rules while working through exercises.
Deductive is known as a ‘top down’ approach. This is the standard teaching approach that has a teacher explaining rules to the students.
Based on constructivism, learner-cenerd approach to learning, Yasmine L. Howard (2003) argues that to encourage knowledge construction, a constructivist learning environment (CLE) provides multiple perspectives and realities, a ‘real-world’ environment that emphasizes ‘real-world’ complexity and multiple solution paths, social collaboration between peers and the teacher to ‘ develop and shape’ knowledge structures, and emphasizes that the role of teacher should move to that of facilitator and mentor rather than dictator.
Useful Links:
Worksheets for TeachersReading Comprehension, Math, Spelling, Vocabulary, Science.edHelper.com
http://www.ets.org/Media/Campaign/51448/edoors12.html
http://www.best4sites.net/learning/7/rmng
The lesson plan below is to help you (teacher) to guide students in the classroom in using this blog.
You might want to do your own lesson plan to fit the activities with the interest of your students.
Lesson Plan
Topic: English for Islamic Studies
Target Learners: ESL/EFL secondary school students.
Age: 17 years old.
Proficiency Level: Intermediate
Duration: 2 hour and 40 minutes
Venue: Computer laboratory
Skills: Listening, reading and writing.
Objectives:
- To learn about the prophet, the Islamic pray, the themes of Islam and the miracles on Qura’an etc
- To introduce the ESL/EFL secondary school students to the grammatical aspects in language: Parts of Speech, Sentences Structure and Tenses in English Language.
- To enable the non native students to learn it in easy way.
- To enable Students to Experience Interactive learning.
- To enable Students to Advance their knowledge with happiness.
- To motivate Students to learn in enjoyable way.
Pre-activities: (5 minutes)
Read through the Welcoming Page.
Read through the introduction.
Tutorials: (30 minutes)
Read through the tutorials by explaining the basic grammatical aspects in language:
Tutorial 1: Parts of Speech.
Tutorial 2: Sentences Structure.
Tutorial 3: Tenses in English Language.
Lessons: (1 hour and 30 minutes)
Start with the lessons about Islam. It is better to follow the sequence of the lessons and exercises.
Lesson 1: What is Islam?
Ask the students to watch the video on what is Islam and to read the passage.
Ask them for the difficult words and explain the meanings of the words to them.
After that, enter the exercise page, and ask students to answer the two quizzes:
Quiz 1: ( Comprehensive Q ) & Quiz 2: (T/F) and then check their answers.
Lesson 2: Prophet Muhammad “pbuh”
Ask the students to watch the video on the story of the prophet Mohammad and to read the passage on the life of our prophet Mohammad.
Ask them for the difficult words and explain the meanings of the words to them.
After that, enter the exercise page, and ask students to answer the six quizzes:
Quiz 1: (Mcq), Quiz 2: (T/F), Quiz 3: (Rearrange Sentences), Quiz 4: (Match ), Quiz 5: (Fill the gaps ), & Quiz 6 (Cross-puzzle ) and then check their answers.
Lesson 3: The pray in Islam
Ask the students to watch the video on how to pray in Islam and to read the passage on.
After that, enter the exercise page, and ask students to answer the three quizzes:
Quiz 1: 5 (T/F), Quiz 2: 5 (Fill the gaps ), & Quiz 3 (Cross-puzzle ) and then check their answers.
Links, Photographic and Multimedia elements. (25 minutes).
Students are asked to go through the useful links provided in order to find out more about Islamic world and values.
Then they go to photographic section where there are pictures of Makah, mosques and more and more pictures which related to the Islamic theme.
Whereas, Multimedia section contains of recordings of The Holly Qura’n and videos of Islamic songs as a gift to those who entered this web and interested in Islam.
Closure: (5 minutes)
Ask the students to click on “AUTHOR” and “ACKNOWLEDGEMENT” in order to know the creator of the blog, and ask them to email their comments or ideas on the contents and the design of the blog.
