This weekend we arranged our very first Teacher Seminar, ever. Exclusively for the teachers we have supported in the past, and off course the newly educated teachers. The common thing for them is that they are working full time all over the poorest mountain areas in Savannakhet Province, areas where the aboriginal minority people of the Bru-people live.
The location for the seminar is in Sepon. Surrounded by tall mountains and beautiful nature. The teachers comes from those districts in Savannakhet province, with the fewest amount of kids pr citizen gets to go to school; Nong, Sepon, Vilabury, Phin and Thabanthong district.
Even the director of the school authorities in Savannakhet Province, Mr. Kamphone, drove over 400 kilometers on bad roads just to teach at our seminar. We have a lot of goodwill at the regional and local school authorities because of what we do, and it really was a great honor both for the teachers and us that the director himself saw the importance of focusing on the main subject of the weekend, which were ”The Heart of A Teacher”.
The Director of School Authorities is a skilled and a dynamic man, with a huge heart for children and their education
New songs are being taught, so they can teach them to their pupils
Everybody was divided into groups and was assigned different topics to discuss, and then present this to the rest of the teachers.
Suksidaphet talks about what she and her group put into the topic “The Heart of The Teacher”
In addition to the teaching, there were a lot of time for group work, socializing, and exchange of experiences to being a teacher.
A lot of experiences is shared, and a lot of good stories are told, after seeing each others for the first time since college.
Teachers who works miles and miles apart, has now gotten new impulses from each others and from SSL, which they can take forth to their own school, and the year to come.
One has to eternalize the moments. It might be a long while until good friends unites again.
Thank you so much to the School Authorities office in Savannakhet, who is willing to see and acknowledge the important work we do. Thanks to Martine, Erling, Tik and Phen for a fantastic volunteer effort. Last but not least, thank you Satad, Somchai, Nid and Lek, which is the worlds greatest, toughest and best SSL team a leader could ever wish for!
– Marit
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