The Role of Questions in Teaching, Thinking and Learning

In collaboration with Moulay Ismail University, the Centre Régional des Métiers de l'Education et de la Formation Meknès-Tafilalte held a workshop dedicated to Making Students Ask Pertinent Questions on Monday May 25th, 2015. The workshop was provided by our lovable friend and colleague Rachida Guelzim and attended by some fifty teacher trainees and Master students from the Department of English in Moualy Ismail university.

Rachida adapted her workshop duration to seven thought-provoking concentration-demading tasks and missions which participants enjoyed performing. Typical of her contributions in seminars and conferences, the two-hour workshop managed to combine so much work and a great deal of fun. 

 Professor Mohamed Larouz Questionning Rachida Guelzime!!! 

 Questioning plays a critical role in the way instructors structure the class environment, organize the content of the course and has deep implications in the way that students assimilate the information that is presented and discussed in class. Given that questioning can be a tremendously effective way to teach, and recognizing that teachers are willing to engage in the process of asking questions while instructing (Leven and Long’s research shows that the typical teacher asks between 300-400 questions per day), the purpose of this paper is to articulate a taxonomy of questions that will help instructors to recognize how to more effectively use questioning as a pedagogical strategy (1981).

Khadija Nour El Attar, Meknès MATE Local Branch president, questionning Professor Mohamed Larouz

Teach Talk, a newsletter for educators dedicated to promoting best practices in the classroom, suggests that successful questioners utilize several skills when crafting and asking good questions. These include: phrasing and sequencing questions effectively, responding to questions so that class time is used efficiently, keeping questions from leading to digression (unless the 7 digression is useful), and using the right tone and delivery both when asking and respondin.g to question. (1995).

Click HERE for Rachida's PPT
Click HERE for Levels of Questions in Bloom's Taxonomy

Thank you Rachida GUELZIME and Professor Mohamed LAROUZ for all the time and effort you have so magnanimously invested to make the event successfully happen.

Ed-Links-Morocco

edlinksmoroccokhalil@gmail.com

AMA Access Tahla Participants Warmly Welcomed at Al-Akhaywn University in Ifrane

Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane' s mission is to provide a learning environment in a Moroccan setting to a multi-cultural community. Employing a North American pedagogy, we provide a broad, holistic and child-centered education delivered within a safe and healthy framework. The school aims at developing each student’s cognitive, emotional, and physical potential to create self-confident, autonomous future citizens imbued with social and ecological awareness.

AMA Access Tahla welcomed at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

(Wed. may 13th 2015. 10:30 a.m)

With some officials of stone-age bureaucratic mindset in administrations, it was not easy to get all the paper-work done on time  to take students there where Youssef and  I have once promised to take them.

  It was a great day, full of inspiration, learning and fun!

 Mohammed VI Library at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

 Mohammed VI Library at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

 Briefings on the Gymnasium rules and regulations

 End of the visit

 Mohammed Zakari ( Housing Guest Coordinator Students Affairs Division) with his guests

 Lunch in Source Ain Vitel (Ifrane)

 In Ain Sultan (Sefrou)

 Big thank you si Mohamed Zakari of Al-Akhawyn University for volunteering to guide our tour and show our students around for more than two hours! Today visitors of AUI, tomorrow students there and why not teachers!

Groupe Scolaire Al Falah Taza Commemorates Earth Day's 45th Anniversary

In colaboration with  the Provincial English Inspectorate  and Ed-Links-Morocco , and in coordination with Earth Day Organization the Groupe Scolaire Al Falah Taza set the tradition of the Annual Earth Day Festival on Wednesday, April 29th on the viewy ground of Al Falah 3.  Students, teachers, parents, educators, administrators, delegation officials and school-bus drivers all took the Earth Day challenge and  participated in a variety of hands-on educational activities which highlighted on the crucial role of nature conservation in sustainable development.

This year’s event included special features: recycling workshops for children, litter-cleanup, painting and school mural for young students, presentations, booth display and posters, short plays, songs and poems.

The theme of the festival was a message of inclusion “Earth Day Every Day”. This free-entry event was also attended by teachers of English from both neighbouring and remote areas like Bni Lent, Zrarda and Hed Msila,  and some friends from Peace Corps Morocco. 

The Groupe Scolaire Al Falah Taza's Earth Day 2015 Festival was " a welcoming place where we huddled together, celebrated and learned". said LIoyd, a Peace Corps volunteer.

Earth Day is one of the most celebrated secular holidays in the world, and the reason it has been such an integral part of the environmental movement since 1970. This year's event was planned in coordination with Earth Day Network  widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement.

Ed-Lins-Morocco and the Groupe Scolaire Al Falah Taza, now partners of Earth Day Network ,  are extremely grateful to each and every single person, school and institution who has joined their endeavour and made the  Wednesday April 29, 2015 event happen.