Mentakab Mentor Martina Gilmartin is off to a great start in April. She held a workshop in her TELL2 SJKT Landang Semantan school for her teachers. This workshop wasn't limited to TELL2 teachers or even English teachers. Her workshop was open to all of the teachers in the school in order to help them become more comfortable with using English.

Martina had a lot of teacher-centered activities for the teachers to enjoy her workshop with. They had to work together during these activities, speaking only English. Then, they had to make presentations about their work and answer questions from the audience. All of these activities promote a sense of familiarity with the English language and the English environment among teachers within the school.

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Mentakab mentor Jimmy Ma organized an exciting reading event at his school this week. With the help of the teachers and students, TELL2 school SJKC Khee Chee was able to purchase over 5000rm in books! This resulted in the school receiving over 100 books for their library free of charge!

This event was under the Temerloh Wave program and named the Scholastic Book Club program. It was attended by some special guests including Martina Gilmartin and Tom Hanly from the Temerloh cluster, Tom White from Bera, Ryan Harb from Kuantan, the SIS adminstrator: Ms Amilin, and of course: mascots Brighton and Torch!

Scholastic Book Clubs were established in Malaysia in 2004. This program was a joint-venture between the KPM and the international Scholastic publishing company.

The mission of the Scholastic Book Clubs is to get students reading using storybooks and keep them reading!

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Mentakab mentors Martina and Jimmy are almost finished conducting their reading and writing workshop in all of their schools. This Thursday, they conducted the workshop for the TELL2 teachers and year 5 students at TELL2 school SK Bandar Temerloh.

The workshop was a huge success, with the students enjoying it very much. Teachers of level 1 and level 2 classes were in attendance in order to observe the skills that were taught during the workshop. Afterwards, teachers and mentors will work together to improve the writing skills of as many students as possible with journal writing.

Also, mentors will work with teachers in the classes creating mind maps in order to help students' reading comprehension abilities. One of the most important parts of reading comprehension involves asking "WH" questions about the reading material. Mind maps will help visualize this process and familiarize the students with asking questions to understand what they read.

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TELL2 Temerloh cluster just finished their 2nd TPD of the year. This TPD focused on English Displays. English displays are sections of the school that are devoted to English Language. These displays can be in the classroom, but are often made outside of the classroom in a public area that promotes public access.

There are many reasons to use English Displays in the school. One of the most important is to influence the English school environment and bring English out of the classroom. Because of this reason and others, creating English language displays in TELL2 schools is not only a program of TELL2. Creating English displays is also a part of the Temerloh Wave program.

Our TPD consisted of eliciting different reasons from the teachers on the benefits and characteristics of English Displays, discussions, examples of successful displays in other schools, and planning displays for their own schools in groups.

Powerpoint Presentations used in the TPD can be downloaded (in .rar format) by clicking this link.

Uses and Characteristics of English Displays

Planning for their own school English Displays

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