The Best Practices for Supervisors Course was designed for the professional development of Algerian middle school and high school English teacher supervisors. The course consisted of two 60-hour face-to-face trainings and an interim online phase. The first session of face-to-face trainings was delivered in October 2008., the second session was online in Winter 2009, and the final face-to-face session was held in Spring 2009.

This handout aims to help students contextualize what they are hearing, so they can improve their listening comprehension skills.

This document is a detailed lesson plan for a Moodle session on speaking - the elements of successful speech and how speech is used in the classroom. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes and follow-up for the course's fourth session.

This document is a detailed lesson plan for a second Moodle session on speaking - the challenges of teaching speaking and the teacher's role in providing feedback and assessment. Included are activities/tasks, reading suggestions, objectives, expected outcomes, follow-up and handouts for the course's fifth session.

This resource, used in the Best Practices for Inspectors Online 1 course, provides an overview of general principles for instructed language acquisition. Discussion topics focus on the design and nature of these principles and their relevance to teachers in a variety of settings.