I will be coming to Port Vila again in May for in-service training with all of the teacher trainers around Vanuatu. Until then for the next 4 months I will be working on a variety of things.
School starts on February 15th so I will be:
- teaching in the Volovuhu Centre School library with each class coming once a week and time for the community to come as well
- working with individual classrooms on literacy pre and post assessments
- doing workshops on formative assessment
- classroom observations and model teaching
- making tippy taps for hand washing (see picture on the right)
- teaching computer skills and typing to the staff
Here are some of the other ideas I have discussed with my counterpart but do not have immediate plans for yet:
- Ways to dispose of garbage and batteries (we currently burn everything! eek)
- English Club
- Working with students in small groups that need more assistance in literacy
- Help find grants for getting our solar panels up and running again
- Re-opening the library in Ndui-Ndui that has not been used in a year due to a political issue
- Creating manipulatives and classroom resources out of local materials
- Vision and Hearing Screenings and finding ways of getting glasses for children
- Making bread with manioc flour instead of white flour
- Workshops on anything and everything
I am excited to go back to site and actually start doing what I came here to do! When I was on the truck headed to the airport 2 weeks ago to come to Vila a few of the villagers asked me "Where are you going?" I joked with them "Oh, I'm going back to America now!" They said "But you haven't done anything yet!" haha
I guess I better get back there and start making a difference!
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