1. Date 30 January 2012
Title Part A: Why should I bother attending training sessions?
Key words Professional development (PD), motivation, needs
Description This session is to get you thinking about professional development (PD). The PDCE wants
you to take PD seriously and this can only be achieved if you are serious about your own
PD. As teachers you face many challenges and by developing yourselves, those challenges
will seem less daunting.
Title Part B: Lesson planning made simple
Key words Objectives, activities, plenary
Description Here you will look at practical steps that will help when planning your lesson. You will look
at how to form lesson specific objectives that are attainable for your learners; ways to
create activities that help achieve your objectives; discuss how to end the lesson
effectively, allowing for student reflection on concepts taught.
Date 6 February 2012
Title Teaching writing to low level Saudi EFL students
Key words Funnel approach, mirror approach, fun
Description Writing has been more than a challenge for us all. This session focuses on skills and
strategies that enable low-level students to get to grips with writing.
Date 19 March 2012
Title How to make my students care
Key words Adapting to students’ level, relating to their experiences
Description Here you will be looking at the challenge of adapting themes and concepts to a Saudi
Arabian context, allowing for personalization of the content to your learners environment.
Date 2 April 2012
Title Teaching big classes
Key words Teacher talk time, involving students, classroom management
Description In this session, you will discover that class size does not automatically correlate with
student learning. Students in large classes can learn just as well as those in small ones.
You will learn how to improve your organizational and managerial skills. Teacher talk time
will be discussed and you will see that lecturing to a large class – or even a small one – can
become boring and bothersome and in fact, the value of a large class is that it contains a
diversity of students and learning styles and you can use many different, active, and fun
ways of getting students involved
Date 19 April 2012

2. Title Does group work, work?
Key words Instructions, activities, feedback
Description In this session you will discuss the concept of group work and how you can make it work in
your class. Important components to successful group work such as instructions, the type
of activity given and effective feedback will be focused on.
Date
Title Teaching revision classes
Key words
Description