Teacher training

Because of Covid, Barbara Porter, HELP‘s teacher trainer has not been able to undertake any of her normal teacher training workshops. It was wonderful for her to be able to visit all our partner schools once more, and to undertake teacher training again. For the third time, in partnership with SASA (Serve & Share Association) in Uttarakhand,  HELP financed a four day workshop in a retreat centre in Dehradun for 18 teachers who came from 15 different schools in remote rural areas of Uttarakhand.…

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HELP‘s teacher trainer, Barbara Porter, has just completed a three day teacher training seminar for nearly 30 rural teachers from 14 schools and 4 interior districts of Kumaon in Uttrakhand in North India. This training is likely to improve the learning skills of nearly 7000 children.

These photos have been taken by the Serve and Share Association (SASA) with whom we collaborate to run these seminars. SASA organised the event and recruited the participants, while we covered their expenses, and provided Barbara Porter’s professional services.…

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Barbara Porter (Director, Volunteer Programme), who is visiting our projects in the Indian Himalayas, has just completed a three day teacher training seminar in Dehra Dun on behalf of our local partner, the Serve and Share Association. Nearly 30 participants from 16 different rural schools and interior districts of Garhwal (Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Tehri and Rudraprayag) participated and will hopefully return to their mountain schools with new ways of teaching English. Before 1947, these districts of Garwhal were ruled by a maharaja who did nothing for the education of his people.…

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The workshop was funded by the Himalayan Education Lifeline Programme (H.E.L.P.) under the directorship of Jim Coleman and facilitated in Bhutan by Tshewang Choden, principal of the Druk School.

Participants
The participants were 17 teachers from Druk school, a prestigious private school in the capital Thimphu, and 7 teachers from three government schools – Babesa primary, Changbangdu Primary and Changzamtok Lower Secondary. There were originally 9 teachers from the government schools but two had to withdraw and their places were taken by teachers from Druk school.…

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In September, our teacher trainer, Barbara Porter ran two one week seminars at the Lamdon Model Senior Secondary school, in Leh, Ladakh. The first seminar was intended for new participants who teach at primary level. The second seminar was intended for participants at primary level who had attended the course in 2009. In the event there was a mix of teachers from both the 2009 courses.

The following details have been extracted from Barbara’s report:

Feedback

The feedback for both courses was very positive.…

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Barbara Porter, our teacher trainer, has recently returned from Ladakh, where she has run a couple of very successful seminars for local teachers. The first was for primary level teachers and the second, for secondary teachers. The aim of our teacher training programme is to develop long-term inprovements in the standard of English teaching in the schools we help.

These seminars follow on from the seminars held in Kalimpong and Sikkim in February 2007.…

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Barbara Porter has returned from India where she has been running two one-week seminars for English teachers on behalf of HELP. As can be seen below, the participants (school teachers from local private and state schools) were overwhelmingly positive about the seminars. However, there are some issues that need sorting out before we do this again, including finding an optimum time of the year to run the seminars (when the schools can spare the teachers), and making sure that the seminars are advertised effectively.…

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