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OCTOBER 26, 2023
TRAIN THE TRAINER WORKSHOP
at ILOA
The Indian Learners’ Own Academy, in enabling children to actively participate and
collaboration with IDP, hosted a one day express their thoughts. Grammar topics such as
workshop on English language training on parts of speech, parts of a sentence,
October 26, 2023, within the school premises. A capitalization, punctuation, etc. should be
total of 25 teachers took part in the workshop, taught using games, activities, enjoyable
which focused on essential elements of experiences and memorable situations in life.
teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing The significance of peer interaction was
skills. emphasized. Overall, the session aimed to foster
The event started with the welcome address by independent thinking among the learners.
the Vice Principal, Mrs.Jaseela Naufal. She The workshop concluded with the feedback
extended a warm welcome to the guests and from the teachers and the distribution of
the teachers present. The resource person, Mrs. certificates. The teachers praised the resource
Yvonne Van Zyl is a skilled and immensely person, finding the workshop highly valuable
experienced teacher trainer with a teaching and applicable to their teaching methods.
background spanning over 35 years in the field The workshop concluded with the Vote of
of English education. Thanks by the Vice Principal, Mrs.Nazma Baig.
Mrs. Yvonne emphasized the significance of She expressed her gratitude to the resource
guiding learners in reading, speaking, listening, person for the practical tips and engaging
writing and grammar through a range of activities provided. She also extended her
interactive sessions. She advocated replacing thanks to the Principal, Mrs.Asha Sharma for
the traditional method of erasing the board and arranging this and also to the Head of the
encouraging creativity with peer learning English Department, Mrs.Kalpana Vinod, for the
methods. The workshop offered valuable efforts in organizing and overseeing the
insights into grammar skills. She added that the workshop seamlessly.
teaching approach should be enhanced to make
it more interactive,
