{"id":16205,"date":"2019-01-26T14:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=16205"},"modified":"2022-06-20T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:50:11","slug":"back-to-teaching-but-teachers-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/back-to-teaching-but-teachers-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Teaching…But Teachers This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How the two January 25 Professional Development sessions I held at Sanskriti International School were rated by the participants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After about a six-year hiatus from teaching, I am back into it again! The difference is that this time I am “teaching” teachers in Nepal instead of international students from around the world outside the country. In addition to teaching critical thinking skills<\/a>, something I did as a matter of course<\/a> as teacher of young students, I am also “teaching” my fellow Nepali teachers how to impart them to theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started working as a teacher educator a little over a year ago with US Embassy’s Bookbus<\/a>. I implemented the Everyday Science: Learn, to Teach; Teach, to Learn<\/em><\/a> program for the first time around the beginning of last year. I am back doing the same but at individual schools. I started at Aksharaa School two weeks ago, and at Sanskriti International School (SIS) yesterday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first day at both schools I had a morning session with all the teachers exploring what formal<\/a> and informal education is. Exploring informal education, I basically shared what studies have shown makes the most impact on a child’s academic performance, namely, having engaging parents and reading to them, so as to instill a reading habit in them. You can find the content of what I shared in the following two blog posts: IEF 2018: Read to Lead<\/em><\/a>, a reproduction of the presentation I gave about reading at the 2018 Innovation in Education Fair, and Picking Up the Slack: Preparing Children for The 21st Century<\/em><\/a>, a reproduction of parts of the presentation I made to a group of fifty parents or so at Karkhana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exploring informal education, I also shared how I have been raising my little nephew and what I have learned and discovered in the process. One such discovery I shared was how I got him to stop throwing temper tantrums<\/a> by talking to him when he started the behavior as a 15-month old baby. Others were about modeling behavior<\/a>, respecting him, and engaging with him a lot to get him into the habit of engaging with people in a none anti-social way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon session with mostly Science teachers, I started with Some Light Magic<\/em><\/a>. Then a short activity on observing a burning candle and then another activity that I call Air Fire Water<\/a>. (The one I conducted at SIS was actually a slightly modified version of that which appears in the blog post.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the ratings (see image at the top) and the reasons for the ratings (see below) provided by the SIS teachers are anything to go by, most appear to have found the sessions useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are you associated with schools that might benefit from my teacher education program? Would your school be interested in a teacher education program? Click here<\/a> for more details. Get in touch<\/a> and we can sort out fees, dates, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am back..into teaching. This time teaching teachers in Nepal instead of international students abroad. I figured educating teachers in Nepal on how to impart critical thinking skills on student might have a bigger impact than teaching students at one school. If you are interested in having me be involved in teacher education at your school, let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[340],"tags":[483,210,330],"class_list":["post-16205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacher-education","tag-teacher-training-in-nepal","tag-teaching","tag-teaching-in-nepal"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pie-chart-of-rating-of-SIS-PD-feat-image.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-4dn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205","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=16205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}