Mahmoud Mansour

I am Mahmoud Mansour, an Egyptian Arabic teacher for foreigners. I earned my BA in Arts and Education, Benha University, Egypt in 2004. My seven-year teaching experience helped me to progress to my current position teaching Arabic in the USA. As a teacher, I always believe in an important view in education process. Students should be creative and productive not only consumers to the material. The teacher is merely a facilitator to the course and his students should be creative enough to apply...See more

I am Mahmoud Mansour, an Egyptian Arabic teacher for foreigners. I earned my BA in Arts and Education, Benha University, Egypt in 2004. My seven-year teaching experience helped me to progress to my current position teaching Arabic in the USA. As a teacher, I always believe in an important view in education process. Students should be creative and productive not only consumers to the material. The teacher is merely a facilitator to the course and his students should be creative enough to apply what they have learned in their surroundings and lives. This principal can easily meet with student-centered teaching approach. In 2008 I won a Fulbright scholarship to teach Arabic as a foreign language. I taught this language in School of American and International Studies, Ramapo college of New Jersey in the United States of America. That scholarship required me to study five courses during this academic year. This included Developmental Writing, Technology in the classroom, Effective speaking, English Grammar and Teaching (Principles and Practices), so I earned sixteen credits for these courses. Working now as an Arabic teacher at The American Youth Academy in Tampa, Florida preceded by two years of teaching Arabic at the International Language Institute in Cairo that is sponsored by The International House Organization in London and also preceded by one year of teaching Arabic for non-native in the US made me aware of the urgent need for Arabic in the whole world in general and in the U.S. in particular. In 2014 I started my MA in Teaching Arabic as a foreign language program from Middlebury College, VT. This important step in my education strengthened me pedagogically and added a lot to my vision in teaching Arabic for foreigners. Therefore that effect is reflected in my second edition of my textbook. It's a different feeling when teaching your own language for foreigners. Teaching foreigners about Arab culture will give me the chance to deal with different cultures and thoughts which is the main core of learning foreign languages, to build cross cultural bridges with collaborated feelings and thoughts. I think our world today needs any effort to spread peace among nations and education can be a powerful resource for that purpose if it is invested in teaching cultures of other nations to close the gaps and block the roads against wars. See less