Professional Development Outreach

Professional Development Outreach
Apr 6, 2002, 9:55am

Mrs. Randa Sabbah helps teachers experience the possibilities of Integrating Art and Music.

Professional development for teachers can take a myriad of different shapes and descriptions from constructing your own ripple tank for physics to making shadow puppets as a learning tool for younger students. These two items may seem unrelated, but in fact they are the same thing; each is part of a teacher’s repertoire of creativity to help learning take place in the classroom. On March 2, IC teachers, administrators and ERC office hosted the third in a series of five day-long workshops open to all public and private school teachers in Lebanon. Public school teachers are invited at no cost and private school faculty pay a modest fee.
IC teachers and administrators regularly attend professional conferences and workshops in Lebanon and other countries. During the current academic year alone, approximately one-third of the IC faculty has attended a professional development event in Lebanon or elsewhere. They are very aware of the benefits and enrichment for everyone involved when people share knowledge. This is the premise of this sequence of workshops.

Dr. Wassim Zoubeir is pleased to demonstrate Building Your Own Ripple Tank for physics teachers.

There is something for everyone among titles such as Environmental Awareness, Making Connections, Transformations, Le discourse informative, L’aventure de la lecture and a number of sessions in Arabic. For their next act, IC’s ERC has arranged for a day of the same workshops on April 13 in Betroumine at the International School Al-Koura and on April 20 in Marjoyoun at Marjoyoun National College.

Mrs. Ghada Maalouf and workshop participants pretend to be different animals as part of Mrs. Maalouf’s Language Arts and Activities: A Multi Sensory Approach.

Elementary teacher-librarian Mrs. Zeina Douba, shows visiting librarians the techniques she uses for School Library Activities and Integration into the Curriculum.

Miss Lama Khayr has had success using and teaching Shadow Puppetry – A Powerful Learning Tool.

There was time for conversation, relaxation and lunch between the morning and afternoon sessions.

A complete list of workshop titles can be viewed by clicking ERC on the above menu-bar and the earlier background story can be found by clicking “more headlines” at the bottom of this page and scrolling to the title ERC Outreach Workshops dated February 3.