What a fun week in Accra Ghana!
So good to have the chance to work again with a wonderful group of teachers and to have new folks join the group. A big thank you to AISA Director Peter Bateman and to Benjamin Betts for making this possible. You have been so supportive!
In 2012 we began a project of training Community of Practice Facilitators. The idea is that these volunteers will receive 2 1/2 days of training and an opportunity for ongoing training annually if they step up to facilitate content specific Job a Like Sessions at the Annual AISA conference and follow this up with ongoing online facilitation throughout the school year, for those participants who wish to continue conversations online.
The group who participated in 2012 had the opportunity to return in 2013 and many of them did so to improve their skills and continue the task. So I had the distinct pleasure of getting to work with them again. The plan is that we will continue this work this year and return in 2014 to train additional volunteers until every group meeting for PD at AISA has the leadership of a trained facilitator/teacher leader to support their work.
AISA is to be commended for supporting the development of teacher leadership in this way.
Communities of Practice are an opportunity for a group of AISA educators with common goals to
constructively collaborate, reflect and learn.
Thanks also to Tima Nisbet for attending in 2013 and also blogging about the event
Life in Lusaka: The Happiness Project - Week 33
Off I go onwards to Lusaka Zambia to work next week at the American International School of Lusaka www.aislusaka.org/
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Your workshops are the best. We are constantly moving and doing. You never lecture and everything we do/learn is something that can be translated immediately into our lives. I hope to be back again next year.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tima you have been a great help! I hope they are keeping you learning!
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