Well the Africa remedies certainly work as I now – sort of – have my voice back! Which was pretty cool as I was following on from the US Embassy trainers today. This whole project is a pilot and hopefully we can spread it out to other areas in Tanzania or hopefully further into East Africa…
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This is a great game from Reeva to go with the ever popular How much? lesson: 1. Cut out some picture cards of things the kids already know (Eg. simple ones like cat, dog etc). 2. Write down a price on the back of each picture card. The kids musn’t see the prices but must…
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The cool thing about travelling is learning the different ways people do things. And one of the really cool things in Africa is the concept of “elders” older (usually) guys who have real gravitas in the community, speak in almost Yoda like wisdom and softness. So today I learnt it’s actually quite common to lose…
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As education in most countries is still very much old fashion grammar, rote learning and “chalk & talk” whenever I do workshops abroad I always seem to have lots of people wanting to see what I do. In Thailand it was the Education Minister and today it was the District Commissioner and also the gentleman…
https://genkienglish.net/teaching/africa-day-4-the-workshops-start-tanzanian-tea-breaks/
It’s amazing how the days get shorter once you settle into a place and you know where you are going, seeing familiar faces, on the morning walk. (The construction workers made me take their photo every time I passed by!) I have three groups of teachers to train this week. The volunteer teachers are from…
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Update: This programme has now finished and we have moved to the main Homework Programme. (Don’t worry I’ll get back to the Africa blog very soon!) Although the main Homework System has been working great in quite a few countries, I’ve had emails from a few teachers in places that aren’t quite so developed asking…
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