This differentiated instruction (DI) workshop aims at developping an educational approach that customizes instruction to meet the students’ individual needs. It will provide teachers and their supervisors with the tools they need to model differentiation and to successfully implement and maintain differentiated instruction strategies across all grade levels and academic subjects.
- Instructor: Lina Bitar
This program aims to guide teachers to implement design thinking methodologies to teach students how to identify needs, come up with solutions, validate their ideas, and learn how to pitch them. Teachers will be able to implement methodologies in a 3-day hackathon designed for students. Generating an idea can look easy, but finding an innovative solution out of a problem is not that simple unless you follow a methodology of analytical and critical thinking. Teachers will train high school students ways to implement design thinking methodologies to validate the need for the proposed solution and see if it is feasible, viable, and desirable. They will learn the process of understanding the problem and needs of the consumer, ideate around the needs in order to find solutions, decide on which solution they will work, prototype the solution, and pitch it.
- Instructor: Elie Akhrass
This workshop will focus on the essential data for the evaluation of learning and the management of classroom evaluation. It will address the assessment process: the taxonomy, forms and functions of assessment, as well as methods of interpreting results according to the learning objectives. It aims to help participants master the techniques of evaluation, in particular evaluation rubrics in relation to the educational operational objectives.
- Instructor: Rytta Abboud
This workshop will focus on teaching mathematics and sciences in an interactive classroom, including the situation-problem, the inductive method, the experimentation, etc.
- Instructor: Rita El Hosri
This workshop will focus on discussing ways of integrating a variety of interactive teaching activities in the classroom, and explore the best types of activities based on the learning objectives of each course.
- Instructor: Christelle Stephan Hayek
This workshop aims to enable the educator to design an online course. The first step will be delimiting the material to be used and helping educators master good communication and virtual interaction. The objective is to show them new ways of adapting educational activities to online requirements and help them find the most suitable teaching method to develop a virtual teaching strategy. The final area to be explored will be the latest online evaluation methods.
- Instructor: Faten El Hage Yahchouchi