Tuesday March 24, Day 2: The Teaching Begins!
The difficulty with implementing a workshop is that the government needs to be on board. As a result, it was the Ministry that sent out invitations to the teachers. JGI never knows who will attend until the day it begins. Sadly, the ministry had made a mistake and 6 of the teachers had already attended the workshop in July. They were very disappointed when they found out they could not stay and replacements needed to be found. All the other participants rallied together to find other teachers to come, as it is considered an honour to be invited. Luckily, we were only delayed a few hours as the new teachers trickled in and were able to begin teaching at 9 am (usually we started at 7:30)!
We began by explaining the importance of environmental education in Uganda. We introduced them to the term ‘sustainability’ and were fascinated that their definition of environment was “Man and his surroundings”. The rest of the workshop centered around these ideas.
Alissa instructed them in cooperative learning strategies, Sue enjoyed getting them active while she taught the experiential method, and Ann followed by leading the session on multiple intelligences and how to use them in the classroom. If we were not leading the session, we were actively assisting the other in a team-teaching approach.
Although it took a little time for the teachers to adjust to our accents, everyone had a fun (albeit long) day. The day wrapped up at 9 pm.
The difficulty with implementing a workshop is that the government needs to be on board. As a result, it was the Ministry that sent out invitations to the teachers. JGI never knows who will attend until the day it begins. Sadly, the ministry had made a mistake and 6 of the teachers had already attended the workshop in July. They were very disappointed when they found out they could not stay and replacements needed to be found. All the other participants rallied together to find other teachers to come, as it is considered an honour to be invited. Luckily, we were only delayed a few hours as the new teachers trickled in and were able to begin teaching at 9 am (usually we started at 7:30)!
We began by explaining the importance of environmental education in Uganda. We introduced them to the term ‘sustainability’ and were fascinated that their definition of environment was “Man and his surroundings”. The rest of the workshop centered around these ideas.
Alissa instructed them in cooperative learning strategies, Sue enjoyed getting them active while she taught the experiential method, and Ann followed by leading the session on multiple intelligences and how to use them in the classroom. If we were not leading the session, we were actively assisting the other in a team-teaching approach.
Although it took a little time for the teachers to adjust to our accents, everyone had a fun (albeit long) day. The day wrapped up at 9 pm.
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