This document outlines an agenda for a teacher training on developing skills for teaching English transactional texts using modal verbs. It includes the following sections:
1. Background on issues like low student achievement, lack of 21st century teaching skills, and need to improve higher-order thinking skills questions.
2. General and specific objectives focused on addressing the background issues.
3. An introduction outlining targeted teacher competencies and basic competencies to be covered.
4. The organized learning activities include building knowledge, modeling texts, joint and independent practice, and developing higher-order thinking skills questions.
5. The closing section provides templates for designing genre-based lesson plans and developing test items to assess the