"INNOVATION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING" TRAINING TUTORIAL

The "Innovation in English Language Teaching" Training aims to instruct 10 Access teachers and
teacher assistants on modern trends and methodology in teaching English as a Foreign Language
(EFLT), using content-/project-/task-based instruction through a learner-centered, activity-based,
communicative approaches.
This way, each of the participants will go through a
three stage instructional process: face to face
trainings, online instruction and mentoring,
working independently online with the instructor,
and later on through independent practice to apply
your knowledge, while teaching Access students,
develop projects/lesson plans, using up-to-date
teaching approaches and share your acquired
experience with other Access teachers and teachers
from your school.
The trainers and mentors will provide value-added content in the areas of technology and
information sharing.
The "Innovation in English Language Teaching training comprises the following 8 sections, which
will guide the participants through the instruction process:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

Training Description;
Trainers and Mentors;
Training Participants;
Training Assignments;
Training Group Work;
Online Mentorship;
Discussion Forum;
Training Resources.

1. TRAINING DESCRIPTION:

To follow the life-long learning philosophy,

the "Innovation in English Language
Teaching" Access teacher training will
strengthen the status of the 21st Century
Educator!!!

The "Innovation in English

Language Teaching" Training is
financially supported by
US Embassy to Moldova

The training will support a blended learning and will comprise

6 -week modules, accordingly:
Period
March, 07

Event
Access Teacher
Training
Start-up:
Assignment 1
and
Assignment 2

Thematic content
Assignment 1:
Introduction into
Innovation in English
Language Teaching
Training;

and provided by
American Councils for
International Education to
Moldova.

This Teacher Training major goal

is to foster the
professional development of 10
novice Access teachers and
teacher assistants from 5 regions
of the country,
such as Ribnita, Grigoripol,
Causeni, Hincesti, and Edinet, for
an improved quality-based Access
students' instruction.
This way, both Access teachers
and teacher assistants will be
invited to discuss and express their
opinions on the up-todate EFLT methodological topics,
referring to
integrating technology, media and
interactive activities into Access
teaching-learningevaluation process.

Assignment 2:
Authentic Teaching:
Using newspapers in
classes;

March, 915

Online
Instruction:
Assignment 3

March,
16-22

Online
Instruction:
Assignment 4
Online
Instruction:
Assignment 5
Online
Instruction:
Assignment 6

March,
23- 28
March,
30-April ,
5
April, 1516

Access Teacher
Training
Close-Up

Additional
Assignments:
Game-based
Instruction: An
innovative EFLT
approach;
Interactive Ways to Use
Films in the Classroom.
Project-based Instruction in
English Environment
Integrating Blogs into EFLT

Task-based Instruction

Formative Assessment in EFL

Blended Instruction
Final Presentation of Newly
Developed Access Instructive
Materials
Guest speaker: Eve Smith, ELF,
USA.

The participants will have to work individually and

collaboratively with their Mentors on the Assignments tasks.

Discussion Forum is a virtual social space where Access

instructors will be chatting with each other on particular
Assignment topics, following 3 rules:
a. once a week ( by Wednesday) an appointed
Conversation Moderator will start a Conversation
Thread (discussion) on the instructive topic
presented in the same week. As a Conversation
Moderator , you will have the role to coordinate
and monitor the entire discussion, replying to
comments the other participants will post as a
response to your prompt/question. Your question
should generate an interesting discussion among
your colleagues, who will share their teaching
experience with you. The prompt should
include a general statement based on Assignment
topic and a question you would like your
colleagues to express their opinion.

Discussion Prompt Sample:

Planning a lesson involves the

teachers skill in the selection of the
material, the techniques or method or
approaches to be employed, the
activities to be taken up, and in getting
the pupils involved in the successful
completion of the lesson assignments.
It is a complete preview of the
difficulties likely to occur in the course
of the lesson, of introducing new
teaching approaches and strategies
while using various updated
technologies. What difficulties do you
meet in planning a lesson/activity for
Access classes, and what you usually
do to overcome each of them?

b. once a week (by Sunday) an appointed Conversation Wrapper will end up a Conversation thread,
making general conclusion of the colleagues' shared opinions as answers to the moderator's prompt.
c. each week by Saturday each participants will have to reply to Conversation Moderators prompt, and
comment on 3 prompt-comments of their colleagues.
The Convesation among all participants on each Assignment will be monitored on the following
Assignment Discussion Forums ( for e.g. Discussion Forum for Assignment 2):

Discussion
Forum for
Assignment
1:
Introduction
into"
Innovation in
the English
Language
Teaching"
Training

Discussion
Forum for
Assignment
2:
Authentic
Teaching:
Using
newspapers
in classes

Discussion
Forum for
Assignment
3:
Project-based
Instruction in
English
Environment

Discussion
Forum for
Assignment
4:
Integrating
Blogs into
EFLT

Discussion
Forum for
Assignment
5:
Task-based
Instruction

Discussion
Forum for
Assignment
6:
Formative
Assessment
in EFL
Blended
Instruction

Online Mentorship
The Mentorship assistance will be offered
accordingly:

1.

Dr. Sheryl Feinstein will be

mentoring Access -Causeni
instructors:
Svetlana Coiceva ( teacher),
Gheorghe Taran ( teacher assistant);
2. Diana Retcu will be mentoring Access
Hincesti instructors:
Daria Prozorovschi ( teacher),
Margarita Bicec ( teacher assistant);
3. Corina Ceban will be mentoring AccessRibnita instructors:
Vera Caprarenco ( teacher),
Mihai Soltan (teacher-assistant);
4. Svetlana Lungu will be mentoring AccessEdinet instructors:
Emma Matriniuc ( teacher),
Arina Tcaciuc ( teacher-assistant);
5. Doina Morari will be mentoring AccessGrigoriopol instructors:
Natalia Constantinov ( teacher),
Olga Taran ( teacher-assistant).

During "Innovation in English Language

Teaching" Training the participants will be
mentored online by a group of professionals,
current experts in education, language didactics,
and extracurricular activities through an
individualized approach.
This way, each one will receive online support
while realizing Assignments' tasks. You will be
chatting with your mentor through Ask Your
Mentor for Advice (Online Mentorship
Forum), and your comments/answers to each
Assignment tasks.
Click on Mentors Forum to address a question

Training Participants: 10 Access teachers and teacher assistants from 5 regions: Hincesti,
Grigoriopol, Ribnita, Causeni and Edinet.

Emma Matriniuc, teacher,

Access -Edinet

Arina Tcaciuc, teacher

assistant, Access-Edinet

Natalia Constantinov, teacher,

Access-Grigoriopol

Olga Taran, teacher assistant,

Access-Grigoriopol

Svetlana Coiceva, teacher,

Acces-Causeni

Gheorghe Taran , teacher

assistant, Access-Causeni

Vera Caprarenco, teacher,

Access-Ribnita

Daria Prozorovschi, teacher,

Access-Hincesti

Mihai Soltan, teacher

assisatnt, Access-Ribnita

Margareta Bicec, teacher

assistant, Access-Hincesti

Instructors and Mentors:

Prof. Sheryl Feinstein

Professor at Augustana
University, South Dakota,
USA
Chair of the Education
Department
Director of the on-line
Master of Arts in Education
Program

Svetlana Lungu
Access Program Teacher,
EFL Teacher, "Mihai
Eminescu" Lyceum,
Chisinau

Dr. Daniela Munca-Aftenev

Executive Director at American
Councils Moldova
Open World Program Coordinator
Professional Fellows Program
Coordinator

Diana Retcu
EFL Teacher, V.Alecsandri
Lyceum, Ungheni
Former Access Program Instructor

Doina Morari
Access Microscholarship Program
Assistant

Olga Morozan
Access Program Coordinator
Senior lecturer, Institute of
Educational Sciences
American Language
Center Instructor
iEARN Moldova Country
Coordinator

Corina Ceban,
EFL Teacher, V.Alecsandri
Lyceum,Balti
Former Access Program Instructor