ELC and EDC at
universities; focus on improving skills of university faculty rather than of
students
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3 ELI people had
worked in Yemen in the mid-1980s on an earlier ELI project there.
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The website
includes workshop material (you’ll see the URL again at the end). Mentored
training = hallmark. It let us see actual teaching styles so we could
recommend certain trainers for more training and use as trainers
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We chose these as
a result of a needs analysis and because the grant called for faculty to be
better able to deal with assessment.
Our faculty doing a workshop
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A trainer doing a workshop
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These topics were
called for in the grant –especially reading - and the needs analysis reflected
concerns about these areas. English teachers wanted to know how to teach
students; we focused on how to teach faculty members.
Group work
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Mixed groups
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Needs analysis
pointed us in this direction, as well as work with other teacher groups
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Our nicest site.
Typical computer lab.
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Occasional issues
with hierarchy due to the inclusion of adjunct faculty members. We held our
ground to encourage inclusivity.
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Part of the grant. We asked that teachers have access to the
books, camera, and voice recorder in the Center.
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Sometimes
trainers’ students. Administrative understanding of expectations and buy-in
had a lot to do with the number of trainees available and whether they were
faculty members or students.
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Exceeded goals by
a factor of 5 or more.
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Exceeded goals
except in IT; lack of infrastructure was a problem, especially in Thamar.
We had hoped to do follow-up visits, which would let us actually measure
how much of what we had given the trainers was being used in workshops. They
have not yet happened.
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The challenges
encouraged learning a variety of lessons – including that change can happen,
at least with individuals
Most of those who
traveled to Yemen were experienced at living overseas. The uncertainties in
the project itself – timing, funding, availability of resources – challenged
everyone. The people in Yemen were wonderful, and the country is amazing...