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The Experience of Running Multiple iEARN Projects at the Same Institution at the iEARN Conference

      

Maha Alawdat

Kseifa Abu Rabe'a

Dr. Maha Alawdat holds Ph.D I Composition and TESOL from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Master degree in foreign English Literature from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Currently, she teachers at a Multidisciplinary school, a college, and the coordinator of Women’s Political Leadership program. Previously, she taught at Indiana...Read Full Bio

Maha Alawdat


Dr. Maha Alawdat holds Ph.D I Composition and TESOL from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Master degree in foreign English Literature from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Currently, she teachers at a Multidisciplinary school, a college, and the coordinator of Women’s Political Leadership program. Previously, she taught at Indiana University of PA and the Language Center in the United States. During her career, she got a number of awards like Teaching Excellence Award, Graduate Women’s Leadership, Fulbright Scholarship, and Award for Dissertation Completion.  She has also a number of publications including articles and poems;  Lo-tech tools as episteme: Rethinking student engagement in the writing process and beyond, Standing Alone in Darkness, English writing students' perception of using Eportfolios in the writing class, and Israeli English teachers' perception of using ePortfolios. She started her journey with iEARN during the school year 2016-17 and continued to implement iEARN at school.  During the school year 2017-2018, she implemented a number of iEARN projects like Girl Rising, Teddy Bear, Taking Kites, International Movie Club, and One day of a life. To spread the word among educators in her community, she arranged two workshops to introduce the iEARN projects and invited important personas from the American Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the American Embassy in Jordan. 

      
Session Details

Type: Ignite-Style Talk

Location: Auditorium

Date: Thursday

Time: 12:00-12:30 PM

Session Description

This presentation focuses specifically on a personal experience with running several iEARN projects in one institution at the same time. The presentation will provide criteria for selecting the suitable projects for certain student population.  It will also highlight advantages and disadvantages of involving students in several projects.  This presentation is very important to shed a light on a rich experience which helped students to go out of the box and get involved in bigger worlds where they found their voices and shared their opinions freely about different issues, in particular issues about Girl Rising and movies from the International Film Club project. 

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

By the end of this presentation, educators will be able to: 

Learn about a real life experience

Recognize the advantages of implementing several projects at the same time.

Become familiar with what to expect from running several projects at the same time

Session Resources

The Experience of Running Multiple iEARN Projects at the Same Institution
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