Workshop #2 - Team 2 (Chris and April)

Team #2 (Chris and April) are currently in Masindi delivering the second workshop to a new group of teachers. 29 teachers arrived on Tuesday to participate in the environmental education workshop. The teachers have students in grades 5, 6, and 7. We had a great first day at the workshop as the teachers were very talkative and ready to participate. Our workshop days are long but the participants stay motivated throughout the day, which is very encouraging for us. Yesterday we covered lessons on sustainability, the importance of environmental education, and local environmental problems. Today we covered lessons on cooperative learning, experiential learning, multiple intelligences, body language, and how to integrate environmental education into specific subject areas. Tomorrow they will create lesson plans that they can take back to their schools and implement in their classrooms. They will also bring workshop materials back to their schools and share the information learned at the workshop with other teachers. We are visiting a local forest and education centre, and for some teachers it will be there first visit to a forest.

Unfortunately we do not have any photos to post right now as our Internet connection is less than reliable, even though between the five of us I am sure we've taken at least one thousand photos.