Using Textbooks in the Classroom-Trainer's Guide

Abstract

This guide has been written to help you present the module "Using Textbooks in the Classroom" to your trainers. The purpose of the guide is: To help trainers best exploit the materials To ensure some consistency of both content and approach between the many trainers using the course To provide you with extra ideas and activities you might need. Before you train teachers using any of the units, you will need to read through the whole module so that you know what is to come. Then read through the specific unit you are to teach and these training notes. Make sure you have the necessary materials for that unit. Check you know the expected and desired answers to the discussion exercises. Make sure you can demonstrate both those lessons you are asked to demonstrate and those that the teachers are asked to demonstrate. Course timetable This course consists of nine units. Each unit should take between two and a half to three hours to conduct if you carry out all the recommended activities, although the first and last unit are shorter. (This is to allow for the administration that is likely to occur at the start and end of the course.) In addition, Unit 4 is particularly long, and if you have time, could well be presented over two sessions. The course has been designed for three possible scenarios: 1. A short three-day intensive residential workshop with nine contact hours a day. 2. A series of in-service training sessions run by Centre Co-ordinating Tutors at the CCT centres. (In this case, trainers would teach three units each term.) 3. As materials to be used in a pre-service teacher training course attached to the methodology or teaching aids component.