{"id":17422,"date":"2020-01-21T13:33:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T07:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=17422"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:01:50","slug":"teacher-education-climatic-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/teacher-education-climatic-calamity\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Education: Climatic Calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in September (2019), I was conducting my teacher education program at a small private school in Kathmandu. One of the aspects of the program involved my demonstrating lessons for the benefit of the teachers there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aims of these demonstrations were to show the teachers a number of things,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. How NOT to teach directly from the textbook (something pretty much every secondary school teacher I have observed has done);<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. How to make science lessons interesting and engaging, even in the absence of fancy, expensive instruments and gadgets or in the absence of a science laboratory (which most schools don’t have) by simply making creative use<\/a> of readily available materials; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. How to engage students in their learning (instead of just lecturing to them from in front of the classroom).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Two lessons I conducted I have already blogged about: the first lesson was on Natural Resources<\/a>, and the second one was about an aspect of Climate Change<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This lesson was supposed to cover hurricane, a climatic calamity, an aspect of climate change. It has just been a day or two since I had learned, from Facebook, about Hurricane Dorian pummeling the Bahamas. Here’s the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    So, I went looking for a videos of the calamity and videos about hurricanes because I wanted to demonstrate to the young science teacher (who was an undergraduate Physics student) that you can teach lessons using videos, topical and current videos! And sure enough I found them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The first was the coverage of the hurricane in the Bahamas by ABC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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