Linden Fund USA hosts annual three-day teachers’ workshop.

May 09, 2017 News

Linden Fund USA, in collaboration with the Department of Education, Region Ten, staged its annual three-day Teachers’ Workshop recently at the Kara Kara Primary School Auditorium.
Facilitator Dr. Ivy Bakker explained that the goal this year is to expose teachers to current research and best practices in teaching and learning.
According to Dr. Bakker this year her entity included Desiree De Florimonte, who is a Fullbright Professor who did reading with the teachers.
“We try to bring in new people every year who have new ideas, who have done some research in the area of teaching and learning so that they can help the students.
“We try to emphasize this year persons who have not been teaching for a long time; we have some students from the training college. We have teachers who have been teaching for less than six years.
“We try to emphasize that because they, more than the older teachers, need assistance. Teachers want to come back here year after year because they are getting information here which they can take back to the classroom.
“We try to hold it to a maximum of 60 teachers – 20 nursery, 20 primary and 20 high school. But because we didn’t get as many high school teachers, we brought some from the teachers’ training college this year.”
Dr. Bakker noted that this year the workshop will end with a talk to Administrators. She noted the teachers need the support of learned administrators to help them put into practice the lessons they would have learnt along the way.
“One of the things the administrators need to do, is go to the classrooms observe them and see how they can help them.”
Another facilitator, Dr. Keith Thomas, said most of the teachers are from the Nursery and Primary schools because many of the Secondary teachers have CXC classes.
According to him they would love to get all the teachers. “We try to adjust now; we have noticed that we get a lot more Nursery and Primary teachers, so a lot of our presentations are more Nursery and Primary-oriented rather than Secondary.”
Dr. Thomas said presentations are about the basic Lesson Plans, classroom management and hints on how to access those things on the internet.
“Of course that is the biggest problem we are finding. Teachers don’t have the ability to access the stuff on the internet, so we are trying to solve that problem by getting them a resource centre where they can access, download, copy and use the plans.”
Based on the teachers’ response the workshops are of great value. They are ecstatic because they are getting all the new approaches in teaching methods and instructions that they don’t get anywhere else, Dr. Thomas posited.
“They have realized that coming to these workshops will benefit them; we are getting repeaters, teachers come back every year. We change every year and we try to upgrade what we are presenting to them and those who realize that try to come multiple times.”
The final day of the workshop was mainly directed to Administrators, because according to Dr. Thomas, one of the things they found out is that teachers are not aware of what Administrators are looking for when they do their evaluation. “So it is nice to have the administrators telling the teachers when they are going to their classroom to do an assessment, ‘I look for this, this, this and this’ and have a dialogue going back and forth.
“So they are prepared with their lesson plans and their classroom management but not all the teachers are aware of what the administrators are looking for.”
He stressed that some of the teachers who were there for the first time were interested in writing lesson plans.

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