Welcome to My Mentoring WORLD

Dear Visitor,

You are welcome to my page which displays my Mentoring Journey.

Our Mission is to help whoever teaches English and/or subjects in English e.g. Maths and Science for FREE as a part of our duty after being trained by the RELO/NileTESOL. The “Mentor Program” qualifies English professionals to be mentors helping those who need to improve their teaching way .

Feel FREE to share your feedback, comments, advice, suggestions, recommendations, inquiries, needs, mentoring demands, etc… .

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Your BROTHER,

Abdelghani Elhusseini

RELO/NileTESOL Trainer

Language Instructor & TOT Trainer

ESP Center, Mansoura University

PD, Explaining Phrases and Clauses

The second time to train my colleague, Nidaa , is to teach her the  types of “Phrases and Clauses” : Noun Phrases, Adjective Phrases, Adverb Phrases.

Date: October 23rd 2017

Time: 12:15 pm- 12:45 pm

Type of training: PD

Attendees : 1 mentee

Venue: ESP Center, Mansoura University

Explaining Phrases and Clauses

Phrases and Clauses

             My colleague, Nidaa , is teaching English subject for the students  in the Faculty of  Veterinary this year instead of me. She asked me to teach her the  types of “Phrases and Clauses” to teach her students.

            Our colleague, Soha, who is a graduate student having master in Linguistics, wants to be trained. I trained them many times when they are free of the courses they teach. Sometimes Nidaa sits with me alone as she has to teach the students each week.

             Nidaa wanted me to revise with her but we could not have the suitable time as we have different courses at different times.

Date: October 4th 2017

Time: 10:15 am- 10:45 a.m.

Type of training: PD

Attendees : 2 mentees

Venue: ESP Center, Mansoura University

Pronouncing the “S” and “ED” Suffixes

It was my third time to meet Miss Rania sand Miss Azza and the fourth one to train in “ElNour & ElAml Charity” for the Blind in Mansoura.

          They asked to go on the professional training and particularly Grammar and Phonetics as Rania is a teacher and Azza, the contact sighted person wants to give English private lessons.

              This time I taught them the different sounds of the “s” and “ed” suffixes. Although they studied them in the faculty as undergraduates, they appear to know them for the first time. This is the main problem of teaching /learning in Egypt; a lot of teachers teach what the students are going to have for the exams not for the language itself.

 Date: September 18th 2017

Time: 10:30 am- 11:30 pm

Type of training: PD

Attendees : 2 mentees

Venue: “ElNour & ElAml Charity” for the Blind in Mansoura

 

Methodology Training

           Miss Eman is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts, Oriental Studies Dept. However, she taught English to KG kids. She is a private teacher teaching English lessons. She wants to develop her teaching and language skills. I started with her giving her Educational Methodology.

          As I mentioned before,  a lot of the teachers are always graduates of Faculty of Arts , and Science who have not studied Teaching Methodology. and Even those who studied Methodology need to remember and update their information concerning new ways of teaching , interactive classes, micro teaching, student centered learning , etc… . I start with ” Objectives and Processes” as the “lesson plan” is consisted of these two main components.

Date: September 11th 2017

Time: 11:00 am- 12:00 p.m.

Type of training: A Presentation about the Lesson’s “Objectives and Processes”

Attendees : 1 mentee

 

Avoiding Common Mistakes while Learning/Teaching English Language

           It was my second time to meet Miss Rania sand Miss Azza and the third time to train in “ElNour & ElAml Charity” for the Blind in Mansoura.

           They asked to go on the professional training and particularly Grammar and Phonetics as Rania is a teacher and Azza, the contact sighted person wants to give English private lessons.

           I prefer each time to start with the common mistakes concerning vocabulary, grammar, speaking/sounds of the letters “th, p, ch, ed, …etc.”. I explained some of the differences between similar tenses: present simple, present continuous, … and so on. During our session other teacher needed the place for the private lesson , so we had to resume in an office. They also talked to me again about the problems they face concerning typing their materials in Braille.

 Date: September 9th 2017

Time: 9:30 am- 12:00 pm

Type of training: PD

Attendees : 2 mentees

Venue: “ElNour & ElAml Charity” for the Blind in Mansoura

 

 

 

 

TOEFL Professional Development

I continued the PD for my colleagues. They wanted to know how I teach the local TOEFL Structure and Written Expression.

My colleagues need to understand the grammar properly. They teach grammar in their general and conversation levels. Moreover, they need it for taking the TOEFL Test as they need it for their master degree.

Date: May 9th 2017

Time: 11:30 am- 12:00 pm

Type of training: PD

Attendees : 3 mentees

Venue: ESP Center, Mansoura University

 

Confusing Vocabulary and Grammar

Confusing Vocabulary and Grammar, PD

I tried to show them that they ought to take care of the common mistakes that their learners of general and conversation levels may. These confusing vocabulary and grammar are the base of our work. Words as ‘mistress’ shows that there are different meaning for the same word.

They were astonished as they had the same problem themselves.

Date: March 29th 2017

Time: 11:00 am- 11:30 am

Type of training: PD

Attendees : 2 mentees

Venue: ESP Center, Mansoura University

 

 

 

 

 

Professional Development

Phrases and Clauses

            My colleague, Neveen Elhusseini, was going to teach Phrases and Clauses to the students of the first year in the Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, the Special Program, BCE. She asked me to clarify the differences between the two concepts and to show her how to teach them.

Date: March 15th 2017

Time: 11:30 am- 12:00 p.m.

Type of training: PD

Attendees : 1 mentee

Venue: ESP Center, Mansoura University

Professional Development

English for Maths

Training teachers and undergraduates to teach Maths in English, I and my colleague, Ahmed Abdelghani, started a new course “English For Maths” which lasts for 20 hours. Each one of us will trains them for 10 hrs.

I entered with Ahmed after agreeing that I would attend his session to give him my feedback. In order to get a training certificate, they had to present demos after preparing them.

The trainees have to give the demo from 15 to 20 minutes as a part of a lesson. The trainer and some of the attendees try to act out as students who were naughty, lazy …etc.

Date: August 8th 2017

Time: 12:00 pm- 01:00 p.m.

Type of training: a course session

Attendees : 12 trainees

Feedback: 15 min

Venue: ESP Center, Mansoura University

 

 

 

General Level One

This is my second time mentoring my colleagues.

The course is General Level One. It is for Beginners learning English at our ESP Center, Mansoura University. It is divided between two Instructors for 10 hrs each. They learn new vocabulary, grammar, and listening may be for the first time.

My Colleague, N. ElShaboury, was the instructor for that day. She was teaching Unit 3, What do you do? She was teaching them the present simple tense. She revised the question words. She gave them some activities like dialogues as a peer work.

Some students tried to make fun but she was very strict.

Date: March 13th 2017

Time: 11:50 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.

Type of training: A Class, General Level One

Attendees: 18 learners

Feedback: March 22nd 2017 .. from 11:27 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.

Venue: ESP Center, Mansoura University