General Education Principles and Standards in the English Language Classroom Training Workshop

The ELC Staff Professional Development Committee organized a training workshop by Dir. Victoria Tuzlukova (SQU) on “General Education Principles and Standards: How Can We Better Handle Differences in the English Language Classroom?” on Tuesday 22 January 2019 in the VIP room. Dr. Victoria addressed the needs to handle differences in the English language classroom. The development of student skill set is one of the perspectives that is of a significant value in the context of tertiary education in Oman. However, this is a very challenging perspective, especially when it comes to curriculum design and implementation in the foundation program English language classroom. How then the curriculum should be developed? What are the appropriate methods and approaches to keep on top of? What are the ways of doing things that work for us and our students? In addition to inquiring about these issues, the workshop engaged the audience into a search for meaningful solutions based on recommendations of the workshop facilitator and participants’ observations to address successful curriculum and syllabus design that involves principles and standards of general education. At the end, Mr. Basim, the Head of the ELC, handed over the certificate and token to the presenter.