Workshops

So, yesterday I gave my first workshop for the teachers. To be completely honest, they didn't seem all that excited about the workshop. When we gave the same workshop in Sierra Leone, we had to turn teachers away but here they came late and one teacher didn't show up at all. Oh well, the workshop itself went well. I was simply trying to share some ideas on how to teach language in a new way. I have taken several courses since graduating from teacher's college on how to teach literacy effectively. I took several of the ideas I learned from these courses and tried to teach them to the teachers. Yesterday we focussed on oral language today we'll focus on reading and word activities. I'm trying to explain that games are an excellent way to teach and students often remember more from a game than from formal excercises.
Today was the first day of school for Manu and Jacob. They were very excited and were ready to go at 6:30 this morning. (School starts at 8:00.) They attend an English school very close to where we live. Karen and I walked them there this morning and waited outside with all the parents as they took attendance. I took a picture of the boys in their school uniforms, they are so cute. I hope to meet with the Director of this school some time next week. It will be interesting to observe several different schools here in Haiti to discover ways to improve Coram Deo's school.