The first ever cohort of 65 teachers made it through the
LRTT training course on Friday! On Thursday evening, we were all buzzing with
enthusiasm for the following day- a session on planning, a session on building
non-academic skills, micro-teaching and the closing ceremony.
Clare R. and Kay had the ingenious idea of linking a lesson
plan to building a house whilst Jack made the group mould “confidence” using
Play Dough. The micro-teaching illuminated what the teachers took in from each
of our sessions and filled us with a sense of optimism about what the teachers
would be able to take back into their classrooms.
By the time of the closing ceremony, there was an electric
atmosphere. This was quickly stubbed out by a torrential rainstorm and numerous
long-winded speeches that all started with, “I’ll keep this short.” But they
added to the prestige of the event and made me realise another similarity
between Uganda and Nepal: everyone loves a grand, drawn-out event!
We were lucky enough to get the minister for secondary
education and the vice principal of our facilitating college to attend, along
with superb speeches from Jack, Clare R., Parveen and three of the teachers we
were training. The only thing missing from a (classically Teach First) closing
ceremony was a chant of “Together we are stronger!” So I got everyone to stand,
link arms and chant “Ekata nai bal ho!”
After the event, everyone was immersed with swapping emails with their teachers and I had to drag them away amid making promises to visit them all in the coming week to watch their teaching.
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