Advanced English for Islamic Teachers
A Gateway to Greater Understanding for Many
Course Outline
MIGHTY ISLAMIC ENGLISH
MIGHTY ENGLISH for English teachers in Malaysia addresses the growing need for a quantum leap in quality English teaching.
Formal and informal research both converge upon the fact that ENGLISH-TEACHING IN MALAYSIA HAS FALLEN DANGEROUSLY BEHIND GLOBAL STANDARDS AND EMERGING MARKET DEMANDS.
MIGHTY Education has the solution ! MIGHTY ENGLISH has the key to the future !
“Quality teaching comes from quality teachers.”Contemplate this simple-yet-profound formula. Add whatever you want to. But nothing can be subtracted from it. This is the starting point, the irreducible element, of educational success.
MIGHTY ENGLISH hence constructs a matrix of good-teaching characteristics based on the qualities of personal effectiveness in Stephen Covey’s SEVEN HABITS, universally recognized positive-and-crucial characteristics. A teacher is hereby defined as a knowledge-leader, a person who demonstrates the effective use of knowledge - AND ALSO inculcates the same in others, AND ALSO facilitates that in others. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, by Diane Larsen-Freeman. 2008, forms the back-drop to this process, the nuts and bolts. It turns out that the characteristics of personal effectiveness are not very controversial for the upgrading process in question. What is controversial is adapting this process to learning-styles - of teachers and students both. All controversy ends when a teacher learns to respect his/her own style of learning - and then brings a unique joy to the learning process, a learning-process based on developing one’s unique learning-style.
Becoming a more effective person means personal empowerment, and personal empowerment is a universal language, one common to all forms of spirituality, morality and religion.
MIGHTY ENGLISH for English Teachers highlights 8 Modern dramas which capture the most recurrent challenges of everyday interactions - and of life itself.
JUNGLE BOOK - illustrating peace with dignity - and various survival skills
THE GLADIATOR - illustrating social refuge and fortification - and logistical adeptness
THE MATRIX - illustrating the sacred imagination - and highlighting our sense of dignity&belonging
THE MIRACLE WORKER - illustrating a minimal nature-and-nurture dynamic for the underprivileged
THE PRINCE & THE PAUPER - illustrating social solidarity and progressive participation
STAR WARS - about negotiationg through emerging threats to human and natural resources
DR. STRANGELOVE - about the interplay between sanity and security
CONNECTICUT YANKEE - about the interplay between superstition & science, opinion & fact
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OUR STRATEGY
Learn to CAPTIVATE students through the universal interest in human potential and personal empowerment.
Learn to MOTIVATE students by isolating and highlighting native-abilities.
Learn to ACCELARATE student/civilization collaboration through natural enthusiasm.