Our Friday programme has been full of fun, and some serious work has been achieved.
Each day the teachers have been filling out a card with 'takeaway' messages from the day's work and today we reviewed our learning for the week and the teachers were asked to complete an overarching core purpose for their work as teachers. My colleague, Sashi, and I have worked with a group of leaders from among the teachers to think about ongoing professional development in their schools after the Rata team leaves. We also asked them to put together a 2 hour workshop to facilitate the writing of core purposes, and it went really well.
We have been given a good supply of mangos while we're here, and I have just finished eating three in a row. In one of our session about planning lessons, we asked the teachers to draw up a lesson plan to teach us how to eat mangos, and luckily I was the guinea pig! So I have learned to eat mangos by sucking out the flesh through a hole in the top of the skin. This makes them much less messy to eat, which makes it easy to eat many more!
Every day we have chai on the terrace with either spicy shortbread or bujha mix. The views are expansive and peaceful, and it is a very enjoyable part of the routine of the day. The Indian chai is very sweet so the cooks make us a jug of unsweetened chai to enjoy :)
Each day the teachers have been filling out a card with 'takeaway' messages from the day's work and today we reviewed our learning for the week and the teachers were asked to complete an overarching core purpose for their work as teachers. My colleague, Sashi, and I have worked with a group of leaders from among the teachers to think about ongoing professional development in their schools after the Rata team leaves. We also asked them to put together a 2 hour workshop to facilitate the writing of core purposes, and it went really well.
We have been given a good supply of mangos while we're here, and I have just finished eating three in a row. In one of our session about planning lessons, we asked the teachers to draw up a lesson plan to teach us how to eat mangos, and luckily I was the guinea pig! So I have learned to eat mangos by sucking out the flesh through a hole in the top of the skin. This makes them much less messy to eat, which makes it easy to eat many more!
Every day we have chai on the terrace with either spicy shortbread or bujha mix. The views are expansive and peaceful, and it is a very enjoyable part of the routine of the day. The Indian chai is very sweet so the cooks make us a jug of unsweetened chai to enjoy :)
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