Biography

Dear colleagues, professors and students, This e-portfolio is designed by Soaad Anwar and Hend Bakry. And we are pleased to share with you all our academic background, work experience and teaching statement. Here's ours respectively. __ Academic background: __
 * Faculty of Education, English department
 * Vocational diploma, Methodology and Curriculum
 * Special diploma, Methodology
 * Advanced Diploma for professional teachers, UK

__ Work experience: __
Nicely, I have a fourteen-year experience, yet I’m still so happy and enthusiastic. I have, actually, taught in various stages: preparatory, secondary, and primary. Of all, I find teaching to students in the preparatory cycle the most fruitful, and even exciting one—it is the stage in which I can cultivate and implant morals. I run, design, and teach courses in the Training Unit in my school.

__Teaching statement: __
Really, one of my ultimate aims and concerns as a teacher is how to make my students good citizens, moral led as well as knowledgeable, and prepared for real life, with all its paradoxes and mysteries, with all its ebbs and flows. I adopt and apply various methods and activities, and, significantly, exploit every class / life situations that would enhance and sustain higher skills of thinking. Helping my students to negotiate, problem-solve, socially interact, reflect on their learning, critically analyze, and work collaboratively with their peers, is, inevitably, another major concern. I strive to make my students independent thinkers.Ultimately using technology is of major help within this respect. T echnology plays an important role in the modern language classroom. Thanks to the Internet learners have the opportunity to access a great variety of sources. I think it is important that language learners be aware of what technology can offer, but it is even more important that they learn how to use these new tools effectively and independently. In a nutshell, making my students apt and qualified for life is what I seek.

__ Reflection on the course: __

When I began theProfessional Educator Diploma, I hoped to learn about new technologies and to be able to use new programs and tools to create an interactive classroom environment where students feel empowered over their own learning. I can now create websites, use wikis, weebly and web 2.0 to promote student learning outside of the classroom, and engage students in social networking related to course material. I feel now far more confident in my abilities to teach students and teachers alike about technology at the completion of this program. I am now able to create resources for students and teachers in the field to use at home or in school. In the future, I plan on continuing to grow in the field by taking additional coursework on new technologies that emerge. I have already implemented the use of wikis, blogs, and social networking into my own classroom and look forward to newly created technologies. I’m currently working with the administration in my building on the implementation of safe internet environment for my school. I am also involved in maintaining and doing workshops and training courses on the six courses that I've taken in the diploma.

//Now About Hend://
__** Academic background: **__ Faculty of Arts, English department, literature branch

__ Work experience: __
I have been teaching ESP ( English for specific purpose) for three years now for the following faculties: Maritime, Engineering, and Tourism. I have taught two stages out of three of this course, which I really find interesting and challenging for me as an English teacher. Actually, my role is not providing students with new information, instead I am helping them to use English properly to communicate the knowledge they already have and to read and write technical reports. Being a creative teacher, I was asked to join the material development team at the Arab Academy For Science Maritime and Technology; this was the phase in which I learned to satisfy the different needs o my students and to develop plans accordingly.

__Teaching statement: __
Having students capable of competing in global societies is one of the major aims which I strive to achieve. Besides adopting different learning strategies to approach my students, my goal in teaching is to empower students to become leaders in their chosen field. To that end, I try to foster critical thinking, creativity, collaboration and communication skills to make them experts in any subject. As a strong believer in a democratic class, I listen to my students needs, and I use the tools they are most familiar with to approach them and establish a good rapport. That's why technology is a mandatory tool in any of my classes to communicate with the new digital generation. Helping my students use technological resources properly will help reduce the gap between them and other students who have been long using technology, thus my students and others in our country will be fit enough to compete with others in global societies.