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This is a template for a single teacher training workshop.
If you are planning a sustained teacher training, you should use this template instead.
Teacher Training Workshop Template
Delete the prompts in italics as you complete the template.
Workshop title:
Audience:
Facilitator:
Duration of Workshop:
Participants’ needs, interests, and experiences:
What do you know about participants’ teaching contexts, needs, and prior learning?
Materials, resources, and technology needed:
Be ready to change plans if materials, resources, and technology are unavailable.
Session objectives:
What do you want participants to be able to
do (or do better) at the end of the session?
Assessment plan:
How will you know participants have attained
the objectives?
Participants will be able to…
Time /
Materials /
Interaction:
Session Procedures:
Adapt structure as needed
Lead-in:
An activity to introduce the topic and activate background knowledge.
Differentiation Options:
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How will you support participants with varying linguistic abilities or levels of
teaching experience?
Presentation:
Modeling of, explanation about, and reflection upon the new strategies.
Differentiation Options:
How will you support participants with varying linguistic abilities or levels of
teaching experience?
Practice Activities:
Participants engage with the new strategies at increasing cognitive depth.
Differentiation Options:
How will you support participants with varying linguistic abilities or levels of
teaching experience?
Application Activities:
Participants prepare to use the new strategies in their teaching context.
Differentiation Options:
How will you support participants with varying linguistic abilities or levels of
teaching experience?
Synthesis & Summary:
Culminating activity to provide closure and help participants remember the
main points and to note their progress toward session objectives.
Differentiation Options:
How will you support participants with varying linguistic abilities or levels of
teaching experience?
Evaluation Plan (TOT Participants: You will address these questions in Module 5):
How will you evaluate the workshop?
● Consider possible tools: conversation, observations, surveys, interviews, or focus
groups
● Consider possible levels of evaluation: participants’ reaction; participants’ learning;
changes in participants’ teaching practice; impact on participants’ students’ learning
How will you use the evaluation results to improve future training?
How will you share the evaluation results with others?
Facilitator Reflection:
To be completed after the session.
What went well? What did not?
What would you change if you were to deliver this session again?
For more information about using this template to plan a teacher training workshop, see the
Annotated Teacher Training Workshop Template and an example workshop plan using the
template format. English Language Programs participants can also find example workshops by
searching “Workshop Plan” in the “Resources” section of the COP.