| Country Kazakhstan
City Astana
Host Institution Eurasian Humanitarian Institute
Project Description
The EL Fellow will help address the needs of teachers and students in the new capital, a city that has yet to be exposed to a newer student-centered, interactive methodology or to support from native speakers. It will also allow post to continue building important inroads with the Ministry of Education. The EL Fellow will be hosted by the English Department and Pedagogical Department of Eurasian Humanitarian Institute, the only pre-service teacher training university in the northern region. The host institution expects the EL Fellow to work as a part-time staff member of the institute by teaching up to 10 contact classroom hours per week to pre-service English teachers, developing curriculums and materials for the courses taught, taking part in an important research project, Model Teacher of 21st century, and participating in weekly departmental meetings with English teachers in order to share cutting-edge teaching practices. The EL Fellow will run the institute’s weekly English Club organized by the students and be a jury member at the student contests initiated by the English department once a year. This will also give the students an opportunity to converse in English for the first time with a native English speaker. As a part of a free-of-charge in-service teacher training program run by this institute and funded by Regional Department of Secondary School Education, twice a year the EL Fellow will conduct a series of workshops for rural secondary schools teachers to upgrade their professional competence, help them master new methods and techniques, and use modern technology to increase the effectiveness of the learning process. Moreover, the EL Fellow will work in close cooperation with Astana English Teachers Organization and their English Language Resource Center. Their great informational support and active cooperation will allow for greater cooperation between the EL Fellow and teachers of secondary schools, both urban and rural.
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