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How to Boost Teacher and Student Motivation for Online Global Collaborative Projects at the iEARN Conference

      

Mustapha Louznadji

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Mr. Mustapha Louznadji had many years of experience as a teacher of English at the secondary education before graduating as Inspector of National Education. He has been coaching and supporting high school teachers since 1997. Since then he has had extensive and varied experience of language teaching; teacher-education and development,...Read Full Bio

Mustapha Louznadji


Mr. Mustapha Louznadji had many years of experience as a teacher of English at the secondary education before graduating as Inspector of National Education. He has been coaching and supporting high school teachers since 1997. Since then he has had extensive and varied experience of language teaching; teacher-education and development, textbook-writing, exam paper designing and TEFL.

He has contributed to seminars, pre-service teacher trainings and supervisor professional development, conferences as well as ELT journals. He has delivered many workshops around the world including the UK and Doha (iEARN Annual Conference of Qatar). He took part in the British Council conferences in the Maghreb including Marrakech, Morocco, Hammamet, Tunisia and the second international conference of the British Council in Oran as a speaker. He also participated in the MEPI and E3Link programs in Algeria and the e-teacher program of the University of Oregon on Critical Thinking.

He was not only the founder and president of the Algerian association of teachers of English in the 1980s, but also the founder of [email protected] website, a network for educators around the world.

Now, Mr.Louznadji is actively engaged in [email protected] project pedagogy. He has held many face-to-face meetings with supervisors and teachers in Algeria, and contributes to Chris and Stevens Youth Network (iEARN-USA) Online Courses as a facilitator. On July 18, 2016, he was elected a chairperson of TESOL Algeria Planning Team. These last months, he is involved in the BRIDGE Program as an online coach with a group of teachers and students from the USA, the Middle East and North Africa.

He was granted the first Outstanding Achievement Award in 2009, and he is listed among the teacher heroes in the My Hero Project.

*iEARN  : International Education and Resource Network (a program that enables teachers to use the Internet to collaborate and enhance learning)

*MEPI : Middle East Partnership Initiative (Best Practices for Inspectors and Teachers)

* E3Link: a program that creates a link between Algerian and American students

* [email protected]: www.eltalgeria.org

      
Session Details

Type: Interactive Workshop

Location: Room 1106

Date: Tuesday

Time: 3:00-3:50 PM

This session is associated with a UN SDG!

This session relates to the BRIDGE iEARN Project!

Session Description

This interactive workshop and discussion will explore best practices for boosting student and teacher motivation in online global projects. Enhancing learning motivation in global education is effective when face-to-face meetings are held by country coordinators and facilitators, interesting and challenging activities are suggested by course designers, clear and supportive guidance is provided, positive and constructive feedback is given, and last but not least, when facilitators demonstrate care, enthusiasm, consistency and impartiality when dealing with online learners. Building relationships based on a safe and supportive environment between online learners and facilitators ensures motivation for the type of global education we seek.

What will educators learn and be able to do at the end of the session?

The session’s goals are to:

  • Increase awareness among participants on exchanging knowledge in online global experiences
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses to improve online course participants’ performance
  • Raise awareness that a strong motivational flow and teacher’s engagement produce very positive results
  • Boost participants’ confidence and motivation to become significantly efficient at online tasks and acquire 21st C skills including computing and ICT literacy, communication and media literacy, collaboration and cross-cultural understanding
  • Enable well-trained teachers to successfully apply the innovative materials and the learned techniques to engage students in challenging collaborative projects
  • Give both teachers and students the opportunity to interact with online fellow participants and work collaboratively to develop partnership beyond the school classroom
  • Contribute to developing new strategies and develop essential skills in the online course staff to influence and motivate ‘learners’ to achieve remarkable performance

Well-trained teachers will prepare students to be able to:

  • Determine their own strengths and weaknesses to figure out how much they progress and much they need to improve
  • Have a sense of control over their learning, which motivates them to keep on task
  • Work hard and be challenged and to achieve high expectations
  • Collaborate, do experiments, work on projects with peers and solve problems
  • Interact with their peers either locally or globally via video-conferencing
  • Ask for what they want in appropriate ways, develop social skills and engage in problem solving
  • Develop a sense of responsibility for their learning and involvement in other students’ postings by giving praise, encouragement and positive feedback

Additional Session Information

Motivating both teachers and students to engage in global education is an ongoing issue as it contributes to achievements.

The presenter's own experience as a student in the CSYN and the BRIDGE Program, then as an online course facilitator, has led him to ask a series of questions based on real online facts. Through these questions, he has sought to find strategies for motivating teachers to work online effectively, so they can be certain that their students - when working online - are being motivated to develop a positive outcome when connecting with their peers from around the world.

The presenter will discuss how enhancing learning motivation in global education is effective when face-to-face meetings are held by country coordinators and facilitators, interesting and challenging activities are suggested by course designers, clear and supportive guidance is provided, positive and constructive feedback is given,  and last but not least, when facilitators demonstrate care, enthusiasm, consistency and impartiality when dealing with online learners. Building relationships based on a safe and supportive environment between online learners and facilitators ensures motivation for the type of global education we seek.

The session includes:

  • A power point presentation with
  • Posters of online course participants’ quotes
  • Workshop feedback form (Audience Workshop Assessment)
  • iEARN Collaboration Centre Forum-based statistics & graphs
  • Grading sheets-based statistics & graphs
  • Group discussions
  • Pictures of both teachers and students who experienced online courses and collaborative projects
  • Videos (interviews with teachers and students who participated in online courses and collaborative projects)