Follow-up strategies to better INSET within a Palestinian context

Abstract

This paper was presented to the Conference of International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), held in Glasgow, 3rd-7th of April 2017A research study was done to investigate whether using different follow-up strategies as part of an INSET course within a Palestinian context affects the teaching performance of the participants. The main question was ‘Does using follow-up strategies as part of an INSET course improve the teaching performance of the participants within a Palestinian context?’ In order to answer this, other questions were added: First, what are the attitudes of teachers and trainers towards INSET courses in general? Second, what are the beliefs and attitudes of Palestinian teachers and trainers towards different follow-up strategies related to INSET? Third, what challenges face Palestinian trainers and teachers using follow-up strategies in their in-service training? and finally, how does using follow-ups affect the teaching performance of the teachers