SMC New Technical Studi...
Sharjah Men’s College launched their Technical Studies Program at the beginning of January 2017, this article reports on an interview with Sawsan Zghir, the Course Team Leader (CTL) now piloting the...
2017 - Page 8 of 11 - Foundations Newsletter
Lates and absences in p...
Sir, don’t mark me late! Ma’am, don’t mark me absent! I decided to look at some numbers for this cycle, since students are now allowed to go up to 15% absences before being dismissed. These nu...
Happy Mother’s Da...
I wrote this little poem for my children and my mother. I believe that every woman is a mother and mothers are gifts that we must appreciate, so I decided to send this little poem to my female colle...
Was I really reading?!
Love can make you do impossible things, and the love of reading opens up our minds to unexpected horizons. My Level II students made wonderful test subjects in a reading experiments. When required, I ...
Stop asking the questio...
Most often, teachers introduce a new topic in a class by asking questions. The learners will then be engaged in the process of finding the answers. However, some educators argue that flip...
Film and writing
An interesting way to motivate students to write is to use film. I have used film to encourage my students to write in different writing genres such as narrative and dialogue. They have written a jour...