{It’s Been a Year!} Today marked my 1-year Peace Corps and teaching anniversary. Of course, I brought it in with my students in the classroom! Here’s to another impactful year and more grace to get through it! #anniversary #peace corps #peacecorpschina #china #gansu #lanzhou #howiseepc #selfie #student #teacher #blackeducator #volunteer #summer #happy #saturday #naturalhair #twa #twistout
You may have read earlier about Rebecca’s adventures in Fîrlădeni. While there Rebecca observed fellow volunteer Jenny Sayles’s health education class. Jenny was conducting a review session. To make things fun, they played a game of BINGO!
Rebecca recorded 2 minutes of the game. Listen carefully and you’ll hear students shouting Bingo and may hear other words about health topics that sound familiar.
Close your eyes and press play. It’s time to go to school.
Did you celebrate International Mother Language Day? "This year’s theme emphasizes the importance of appropriate languages of instruction, usually mother tongues, in the early years of schooling. It facilitates access to education – while promoting fairness – for population groups that speak minority and indigenous languages, in particular girls and women; it raises the quality of education and learning achievement by laying emphasis on understanding and creativity, rather than on rote and memorisation.“
Electricity’s been out all day, but that won’t slow down our classes! SAT students take it outside and never miss a beat! #globaleducationcenter #peacecorpsthegambia
Thanks to my Mom for a sending me books! I finally got to share them with some teachers at my school and they loved them! They want to do a skit based on Amelia Bedelia :)
I’ve been thinking about ways to encourage students to attend our after school program regularly. I came up with a “responsibility score,” a way for students to track their progress in our class. The kids really like it and were using it right away. They liked that they could mark it themselves which encourages more responsibility.
From Chris Flowers: I found out today that Tinkerbell is Clopotițca, or little bell, in Romanian. We are naming things in English as the kids watch this movie in Romanian. #rcpc http://ift.tt/1Z2NLhQ
Peace Corps Volunteers in Liberia serve in the Education sector. Many are Secondary Education Math Teachers who teach basic math concepts, including numeracy, pre-algebra, geometry, and algebra. This is an exciting and challenging time in the history of Liberia. The Peace Corps Education Project aims to support Liberia’s education sector during a time of reconstruction as it aims to meet the nation’s educational challenges so every Liberian child can obtain a quality education. The Secondary Education project places Volunteers in schools with grades 7th through 12th as math teachers.
During their service in Liberia, Volunteers learn to speak the local languages, including: Liberian English, Kpelle, Mano/Gio, Gola, Via and Mano. More than 4,035 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in Liberia since the program was established in 1962. Other facts include:
The primary industry in this sub-region of West Africa includes tourism, fish processing, construction, craft items and specialized aquaculture.
Sapo National Park in Liberia is West Africa’s second-largest tropical rainforest and home to about 125 mammal species, including elephants, leopards, giant forest hogs, chimpanzees, duiker antilopes and the rare pygmy hippo.
The major religions followed comprise of 40% indigenous beliefs, 40% Christians, and 20% Muslims.
The name Liberia was given by the immigrants, which mean “Land of the Free’ in Latin. The capital of Monrovia was also established by Americo-Liberians named after US President James Madison.
This nation has more female leaders, Presidents or Prime Ministers, than Norway, Sweden and South Korea combined together.
