On Friday, March 24th, the School of Education at LIU, Bekaa Campus presented a series of workshops for teachers in Bekaa region. The Reshaping Teaching Practices Workshops started last year, and a positive and encouraging feedback was given by participants. This encouraged for repeating the initiative for a second time.
We, the students of the Education Department, were responsible for assisting the instructors as they presented their workshops. And for the second year, I got the privilege of assisting Mrs. Amal Farhat in her workshop (I'm not saying this because she'll be grading this post; she does know how much I love her. And if I get an A on my blog, it's because it's interesting and satisfies the criteria Mrs. Amal will be basing our grades on! You can't get me guys! Come on! You already know you can't!).
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The workshop started at 9:00 a.m. and ended at 2:00 and included two breaks; one for Friday prayer. Mrs. Amal introduced the teachers to Google Drive, mentioning the benefits of using it for saving documents. She then introduced Google Docs and Google Forms as alternatives for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel respectively. All documents needed for the workshop are presented on a website created by Mrs. Amal especially for the workshop.
Teachers listened to the explanation of each part then applied it, while Mrs. Amal, my colleague Soumayya Hammoud and I walked between them and provided assistance whenever needed.
At the end, teachers filled in the evaluation of the workshop on a Google form, instead of a traditional form. Well, that's the aim of the workshop..!
After the workshop, we had a delicious lunch and a family picture, including the students who helped in the workshops and several instructors ! <3
We, the students of the Education Department, were responsible for assisting the instructors as they presented their workshops. And for the second year, I got the privilege of assisting Mrs. Amal Farhat in her workshop (I'm not saying this because she'll be grading this post; she does know how much I love her. And if I get an A on my blog, it's because it's interesting and satisfies the criteria Mrs. Amal will be basing our grades on! You can't get me guys! Come on! You already know you can't!).
Ok..
Back on track..
The workshop started at 9:00 a.m. and ended at 2:00 and included two breaks; one for Friday prayer. Mrs. Amal introduced the teachers to Google Drive, mentioning the benefits of using it for saving documents. She then introduced Google Docs and Google Forms as alternatives for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel respectively. All documents needed for the workshop are presented on a website created by Mrs. Amal especially for the workshop.
Teachers listened to the explanation of each part then applied it, while Mrs. Amal, my colleague Soumayya Hammoud and I walked between them and provided assistance whenever needed.
After the workshop, we had a delicious lunch and a family picture, including the students who helped in the workshops and several instructors ! <3
Glad to hear it was a success. I was able to tell that it was interesting right after I got back home and my husband, who was one of the participants in Mrs. Amal's workshop, got to work on the spot! We're lucky to have a full semester to develop our skills in this area. And you're rightttt...we can't get you :)
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha <3
DeleteI'm sure it was a beneficial workshop... We learned about the importance of using google drive and google forms in our teaching processes. It's great to see many other people who are interested in developing and updating themselves for teaching purposes.
ReplyDeleteExactly! Hopefully more and more people will be interested in the future!
DeleteI am sure it was an effective workshop. Teachers learned how to use google in a different ways as they use it before. It is an opportunity to develop their skills and teach it to others teachers to use it in their areas.
ReplyDeleteworkshops are always beneficial and give us great experiences, so what if Miss Amal Farhat was presenting one of them. I feel that you've enjoyed such workshop because it was about technology which we need a lot these days.
ReplyDeleteHaha Maria. I didn't read the part about me. Don't worry.
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