Poster Presentations at the SILC Symposium

Here are a few pictures from the SILC Symposium's poster presentation session on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. I hope all in attendance enjoyed the sessions and learned something new.

Week 11 Highlights

Week 11 curriculum workshop at the curriculum Kitchen 

We reflected, thought, wrote, laughed

We had a discussion on:

1- Video projects policy

2- The football tournament  ( match 4 and 5 )

3- The mind-map contest     ( week 13 - due date )

4- The green day project      ( term 3 project- phase two ) Why? where?how? when?Who?

5- A reflection session (What was your biggest challenge in the class with your students?)

read more on the football match

this week football match

DRAW MY LIFE (Nasser Ali Al-Shehri) CTI Riyadh

Saudi Gazette:Humanizing classroom: Al Yamamah’s initiative in efficient teaching

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Saudi Gazette:Humanizing classroom: Al Yamamah’s initiative in efficient teaching

Term 2 - Week 10 workshop

In this week workshop each teacher was given five minutes to present a sample of a student work done this week, and share it with the group, giving reflective feedback, after that,  question and answer.

Main Highlights:

• Mr. Abdulrahman showed us a video of a students talking about an environmental topic, as part of a problem-based-learning approach.
• Mr.Mich displayed a students writing assignment on persuasive writing. The student was writing about the benefits of sleeping early. 
• Mr.Ray talked about his students video projects, where they had to interview staff members in the program.
•  Mr. Emran talked about how he used newspaper to engage students to think about careers.
• Mr. Abdullah talked about  a video project, where students were to record three videos talking about three different topics related to career. 
• Mr. John talked about the writing assignment,  witch was part of the autobiography project.
• Mr. Michael focused with his students on how to present and talk about yourself. 
• Mr. Sami displayed a students mind- map , where a student summarized his lessons he learned from the previous classes in the term.  Mr Sami focused this week on implementing mind-mapping in learning English.
• Mr. Ali focused this week on how to make a cover page for your C.V. 

Saudi Gazette: English proficiency key to gaining knowledge

   

 

Link to Article

Al-Yamamah University hosts ELT symposium

 

Poster for SILC Conference

Here is the poster titled "Serving Students via The Curriculum Kitchen" that will be presented at the Saudi INTERLINK Language Center's Third International ELT Symposium on Wednesday, November 13. I hope it will be a beneficial session for those attending. If you're in Riyadh, please make sure to stop by.

full size poster

Openning football match between B303 and A104