Our Fellows at Work

Based on their expertise, MEPLI Fellows offer research and practice-based resources to support educators in the region to enhance their teaching practice.

Articles By Our Fellows

  • Fostering Productive Skills in the EFL Classroom

    By: Sanaa Altamimi March 16, 2024 Introduction Effective communication fundamentally relies on speaking and writing proficiency, making educators’ role in helping students obtain linguistic competence crucial for various reasons. Writing skills are crucial for EFL students’ academic success, supporting intellectual growth, broadening cognitive domains, and reinforcing new grammatical structures, idioms, and vocabulary  (Jamoom & Osama,…


  • From Crisis to Classroom 

    Education In Emergencies EIE By: Musa Abu Hadeed, Nisreen Kassem & Nayla Abi Antoun Feb 27, 2024 This is Part 1 of a 4-part series. Remember the dawn of the COVID era? For schools in the West Bank and Jerusalem, March 8, 2020 felt like waking up to a scene straight out of The Walking…


  • تعزيز النزاهة الأكاديمية في المؤسسات التربوية

    تأليف: سهام العموش وآمال فرحات نشر في:  28 كانون الثاني 2024 ترجمة: وفاء السكران مراجعة لارا الخطيب النزاهة الأكاديمية: المعنى والتعريف تعرّف منظمة المقاييس والجودة للتعليم الثالثي الاسترالية (TEQSA) النزاهة الأكاديمية ب” ضرورة عمل المعلمين، والطلاب، والباحثين، وجميع أعضاء المجتمع الأكاديمي بما يتفق مع الأمانة، والثقة، والعدالة، والاحترام، وتحمل المسؤولية“. وبالرغم من ذلك، فإن النزاهة …


  • Fostering Academic Integrity in Educational Institutions

    By: Siham Al Amoush & Amal Farhat January 28, 2024 Academic Integrity: Meaning and Definition The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency in Australia (TEQSA) defines academic integrity as “the expectation that teachers, students, researchers and all members of the academic community act with honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility”. However, integrity is not exclusive to…


  • The Crucial Role of Written & Oral Corrective Feedback in EFL Classes

    By: Yaffa Jumah Abu-hamdah December 27, 2023 Introduction Feedback helps students gain insight into their areas of strength and weakness, contributing to better learning outcomes. The teacher plays a pivotal role in providing constructive feedback that aids students in comprehending and enhancing their performance. In EFL classes, corrective feedback is typically given in the language…


“MEPLI taught me to provide my students with the freedom to speak up – to not just be receivers of knowledge- so we can learn together.”

Dalya Saleh
MEPLI Fellow 2021

Educators engaged in hands-on project during a workshop with MEPLI Fellows.

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Usable Knowledge is a digital publication based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that connects research to practice by publishing content that responds to educators’ pressing challenges. 

The MEPLI program works with our Fellows and other regional educational experts to translate Usable Knowledge into Arabic in order to be accessible to educators and community members across the Arabic speaking world.

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