Teacher training in Service programmes train teachers to use ICT tools integrated with school subjects. Before a Teacher Training programme starts we map the access of the technical tools the student group have. The tools are adapted to the access to ICT infrastructure. The students use different Social Media as
Learning management platform (LMS)
Blogs
Wiki
International Networks connected to their practice
and if Internet connection is good
Youtube
Picture Services as Flickr
Skype
In the courses a special homepage and blog has been created for the teachers where they can present their learning and their pupils work (this blog for example). There are also other happenings that are connected to this homepage that is used for learning. Through the Teacher Training the students learn how to use social media in different ways.
What are the aims with this?
Let for example teachers, parents, children and other experts show their examples
Make learning and knowledge development visible
Share learning examples local and global
Show practical examples about human rights connected to school subjects
Stimulate creativity
Have forum for discussions, ideas, fruitful examples for learning
Transparency in information, communication and knowledge’s
Local and global network
Language training
Training in communicate learning
Net communities like ENO and Life-Link has projects and themes to use in the local school. Those networks have members from schools in different parts of the world.
To be used by schools, local and global experts etc to stimulate learning development
The use of Skype helps students to reach the tutor for communication for free. As a tutor I can send group sms to give information to the group. The LMS gives the assignments when they feel prepared to do them
Social media work is adapted after the local groups needs. Successive they train to use them natural in their work and daily life. This also makes life long learning visible and more people get access to knowledge’s and ICT tools. Social media can help people to get back to and continue learning examples.The stories and pictures come mostly from the local group that use their mobile phones to take pictures or borrow a camera.
Have you ideas or thoughts about this? You are welcome to give them!
Kindly regards from Emma, tutor and course developer in Teacher Training
This Friday on the 22:th of May it was “Environmental Online (ENO) Tree planting day”. ENOs vision is to have 100 million trees planted in 2017. In Al-Baraka Schools pupils, students, teachers, head teachers and others planted 50 trees.
Teacher Abdi Mukhtaar Ismail has taken the pictures tell us about the day
we have planted these trees in secondary school and intermediate school in Al-Baraka schools. The story about day that we want to change our environment to the better with an ever green surrounding. We want our students to learn to take care about the environment everywhere such us home, school, street and we want to encourage them to be more careful about our environment.
Idil Hassan is a young daughter in grade three (primary school). She lives outside the city and is one of the students in Al-Baraka shools. She comes to school by foot,but Idil is in a different situation, because she comes outside the city while the other students come inside the city. Idil runs few kilometers of hilly and wild forest early in the morning to reach to the school! Her own story about this comes here in English:
“On my way to the school it takes me a complete hour to come to the school, and I walk along the beautiful trees and hills. The environment is very beautiful and when the flowers bloom I cut some flowers to show my science teacher”.
Idil Hassan
Abdirazak: Idil told me this story before the start of the school day. She added that she entertain her self to create educational songs to not feel alone.
Idil’s favourite place:
“My favourite place is Daalo. Daalo is located the forest in the Sanaag region. It is big and beautiful.There are clouds covered by the sun and there is a place to play. My favourite place is the nature and the beautiful forest in all over the world. I never went there but i hope to go Daalo one day. I like to go to the forest and walk between the trees. In the spring the flowres bloom and the trees blossom.”
The presentations comes from assignment 4 (unit 2) Teacher Training (English training)
My aim is to let them to express how they found their places!
To develop their curiousity to ask about any things that found in their environments
Urge their parents to work with me and their kids to help us to take them in trips to develop their knowledges
About my thoughts:
Urge my student and their parents to let them to go to any trips and after that let them to disuse with their friends , parents , teachers etc
Listening to them coz their have many story that help us in their lesson
Let them to tell us their story advantage that they do in their place
About my reflections:
After I teach this lesson I found that every student in my class can image and do many things to help this environment although they are kids and how they want to develop their place in the future. I was so happy to see what my student did.
About my choice of this lesson: I want to build a generation that can be creative in any things without any helps.
To show me if they understand me or not: I ask them to tell me story about the place they want to live and what they can do it, so they start to say to me about their story.
This boys name is ABDI AL WAHAB MUSTAFA and he is 4 years old. He told me about last year when he and his family went to Barbara. He saw a big sea! When he saw it he run and jumped to swim with his sisters and brothers. He saw many boats and ships that was in port. How ever they ate a big fish that was very delicious! This holiday was a wonder full coz we do what we wants, the weather their was very hot we take many water to drink.
This boys name is CAYDARUUS ABDI AL KARIIM and he is 4 years old. He tells me that he likes to live in HARGAYSA coz here he live with his family that belonged to a big house. He aslo have many friends that he can play with at any time. How ever he want to go in university to be a doctor and want to work and achieve his dream. He wants to be there. On the other hand there are hospital , school, houses and many place that he want, so he say he want to live in city very well. So as tou know there were many stories that helped me in this lesson.
This example shows teacher Ibrahims students stories about history and geography.
Ibrahim: On the next day, I was very surprised because I figured out from the students that they got a big idea of the lesson. Here are some of the students’ feedbacks from the lesson.
Sakaria Ahmed Ibrahim and mother:
“Last night I was talking to my mother after finished my school’s homework, and I asked her ” mom tell me about our history “My mom said ” our history is full of wars before 1994, because before that year there were a lot of civil wars took place in our country so my son you need to know our history in order to avoid making the same mistake that happened before now.”
Ibrahim: “So when the student told me that short story I asked him what did you understood from your mother’s speech? And he answered “I understood that we need to know history so to avoid remaking the previous mistakes.”
Ikran and her Classmates:
“I asked my father why Geography is Important and He replied, “My daughter we need to study Geography so as to classify our land, for example if you need to make a farm you can’t make it in a desert place because you need a water. On the other hand, you need to now something about Geography if you need to make any new project.”
Ibrahim: “Finally, when I asked the students about the lesson, I got that they firstly were didn’t interesting it. But when we finish the lesson I figured out that they liked because they understood it from me and also from their parents.”
Teacher Ibrahim and his students from Primary school (Al Baraka Schools)
“My favourite place is my grandfather’s hut .it is my favourite place because I can relax there. I visit it every weekend, because it is near my home, I am there about 1-2 hours, some times I go with my friends.”
By Muna
“My favourite place is Arabsiy, it is my favourite home, I go with my family every year on vacations. It has comforting nature and its small stones that water is flowing on them. I often visit this place every summer. I sometimes enjoy this place alone and sometimes with other people.”
Last week MKFC Stockholm College participated in the ENO Conference in Joensuu, Finland. Children, teenagers, teachers and headmasters and others from different parts in the world where participating and networking. It was very exciting to follow all the work shops with themes about recycling, environment, chemistry and others. An austronout from USA gave a lot of inspiration to the participants to discover science!
You can read more and see exciting pictures from the conference in this link
From the starting of this course, both teachers and students felt a better change of the way of teaching. When unit one ended, the ministry of education and parents also get the same feeling. The change that this course made in the way of teaching was very good for anyone related to our school (Al-Baraka). Here are some of the responses that summarized so far: Read the rest of this entry »
My favorites place
My favorites place is the beach which is located in city of Barbara the name of the beach is (Budd Tallaleh).
Usually my father take the whole family their in the spring holiday only for 2 weeks because it is 125km away from my city Hargeisa
The first time I saw the beach was 2 years ago, since then I think about it
It is peaceful and nice, there is no noise only the sound of waves, I enjoin the nature there
It’s a place I will not forget
From the left up: Ahmed Abdillahi, Abdirizak Mohamed, Mohamed Eid, Muktar Ismail, Ibrahin Osman, Essa Nasir, Nur Yonis From the left down: Khayria Abdi, Mona Omer, Fozia Jama, Kharda Ismail)
Thursday 2009-02-12 the Somali Al-Baraka Schools hold a ceremony to celebrate the first Graduation of Teachers in service in the ongoing End-to-End eLearning™ Teacher Training education. The MKFC team for Teacher Training was connected and had the great occasion to convey their greetings by phone. Read the rest of this entry »
