{"id":13522,"date":"2018-01-28T18:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T12:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=13522"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:13:45","slug":"everyday-science-all-about-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/everyday-science-all-about-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Science: All About Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since January 12, 2018 I have been running the <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/the-us-embassys-book-bus-science-teacher-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Embassy&#8217;s Book Bus teacher empowerment program<\/a> Everyday Science: Learn, To Teach; Teach, To Learn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I promised the participants that I would share, online, most of what I shared with them in the workshops, that I would share them in the form of blog posts. This is the first one. (<a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/everyday-science-learn-to-teach-teach-to-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a> for the blog post <em>Everyday Science: Learn, To Teach; Teach, To Learn<\/em> in which you can find links to all the blog post about the workshops.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/everyday_science\/Personal%20Introduction.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for a PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied my personal introduction and my initial advice to them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/everyday_science\/Everyday%20Science%20Aims%20and%20Objectives.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for a PDF document summarizing the aims and objectives of the program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/everyday_science\/Dates%20Progression%20&amp;%20Overview%20of%20Topics.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for PDF version of the presentation providing the participants with an overview of the seven-session program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/everyday_science\/D1P1%20-%20What%20is%20Education.pdf\">Click here<\/a> for a PDF version of the PowerPoint presentation I shared with the participants on what education is, or could be, and what being educated means etc. What&#8217;s been left out are the details of the activities I had the participants engage in about education and what it means to them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of every session, I ask the participants to provide anonymous reflections on it. One of the first questions in the sheet asks them to rate the session and provide a reason(s) for the rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"841\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason.png 841w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/rating-and-reason-768x516.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the participants rated the session and their reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Day-1-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1181\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Day-1-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Day-1-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Day-1-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-3-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Day-1-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-3-780x1024.jpg 780w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Day-1-Rating-and-reason-for-rating-3-768x1008.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the details from the first session of the seven-session US Embassy&#8217;s Book Bus (Science) Teacher Empowerment Program, Everyday Science: Learn, to Teach; Teach, To Learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Everyday Science: All About Education #ScienceEducation #TeacherTraining #Nepal","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[340],"tags":[516,518,211,483,210,330,515],"class_list":["post-13522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacher-education","tag-bookbus-nepal","tag-satori-center-for-the-arts","tag-science-teaching","tag-teacher-training-in-nepal","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-in-nepal","tag-the-us-embassys-book-bus"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/best-teachers-are-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-3w6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30004,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13522\/revisions\/30004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}