So this past Thursday and Friday Dylan and I participated in and helped put together some workshops on dynamic teaching methods. On Thursday it was only the preschool teachers, and on Friday it was the other teachers and scholarship students. We talked about ways to involve students in the learning process, making it more fun and interactive for them. We also talked about ways to make the classroom more inviting, having the kids own it, with their work and other such things. We thought of activities that would demonstrate the ideas of dynamic teaching, read stories, and played games such as the human knot and the blind chicken. We also had to write letters to our pretend American uncles at the end. This uncle supposedly funded the workshop and funded Planting Hope. So we wrote letters telling him about what we learned and how the workshop went. Much to mine and Dylan's surprise, we switched the letters around at the end and read them out loud! We weren't supposed to put our names on them, but we were sure ours would be obvious because of our poor Spanish. Dylan tried to withhold his, but he was discovered, and even Beth didn't realize when my letter was read that it was mine!
It has been really fun doing the workshops, we have learned a lot. Even if they were activities or tactics that we might already use in a classroom, it was interesting to see the theory behind it all, and to think of new activities. It was also fun to meet so many new people who are part of Planting Hope.
p.s. Here are some pictures from Doña Aracely's birthday!
That is the Doña with her husband behind her. In the corner is Seydi with little Dylan.
This is baby Dylan and Lissania, our host sister Seydi's children. We call him Dylanito sometimes to keep confusion to a minimum.
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