OLE Nepal/Deployment guide/Training
Teacher Training
Excerpts From OLE Nepal blogs
- Saurav Dev Bhatta, Bipul Gautam, and Kamana Regmi designed the teacher training program. Sulochan Acharya and Bryan Berry provided technical assistance. Bipul is the lead teacher trainer and is steeped in the theories and practices of different educational schools but Vygotskian Social Cognition and Piaget’s theories of development have influenced him the most.
- The Classroom Setup. We have the teachers facing each other just as we want the students to face each other in the classroom. This will reduce the risk of XO’s falling forward off the front of their narrow desks.
- Day One
- The first day of training focused on basic use of the XO and its functions. Saurav spent a lot of time explaining the functions of the different keys on the keyboard. This was much appreciated by many of the teachers who had minimal experience with computers. Later in the day, Saurav led the teachers in exploring E-Paati and other activities on the XO.
- Day Two
- On the morning of the second day Bipul focused on the theories of Piaget and Vygotsky that underpin constructionism. The afternoon of the second day returned to the activities in the XO and how they reflect the ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky.
- Day Three
- Day four ???
- We hope to steadily build up to using Etoys and programming tools as standard parts of training and teaching/learning.
- We have 4 days off-site of teacher training, followed several weeks later by 3 days on school premises
- Several teachers from both schools approached us and told us that they would like to set up regular meetings between teachers at both schools so that they can support each other and share solutions.
- http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/193
- http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/184
