Today is our third day of teacher training for the teachers at Docine. It is not a holiday here in Haiti. No BBQs for us. Â But we did have sliced hotdogs in the spaghetti we had for lunch.
The newest member of our team, Quentin Nantz, has the floor today. He started out this morning with an activity where the teachers at each table had to come up with a name, a logo, a handshake, and a cheer for their ‘team.’ The teachers had a fun time with that activity which was intended to take them from being just a group to being a team.
Team fist bump
Since the students that these teachers teach learn Creole in their homes and they are supposed to learn French in school, the subject of the day is language – how we learn our native tongue and how we teach a language or a second language.
Using a pocket chart
Natacha had a long day of translating!
After lunch, he showed some practical ways to teach a language by teaching them some English with words from the children’s book “The Hungry Caterpillar.” To end the day, each team had to cut out a template of a caterpillar based on the book, color it and put it together.
We had a good day in the classroom with the now 29 teachers!
Hi Carla, It is great to follow your work here on this blog. I am teaching my EDU 735 course next week and have dug deeply into Lynn Erickson’s new edition of her book, authored with Lois Manning and Rachel French. There are some interesting new ideas, such as the Structure of Processes (along with the Structure of Knowledge). I know you were teaching on Essential Questions and Enduring Understandings (more McTighe and Wiggins…). It is exciting when teachers “get it”, isn’t it? Quentin’s dad was principal at the school in Naples where I taught for awhile and he was an elder at a church in Naples where we went. I know you are happy to welcome Quentin and his family.
Good to hear from you! I taught a UbD/Covenant M.Ed. Unit Planning workshop here in 2016 and 2017. Yesterday was a review day — Some good light bulb moments. FYI: Quentin will be at Covenant next week, sitting in on Dr. Young’s course.