{"id":5491,"date":"2012-02-10T00:30:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T22:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moses.it\/?p=5491&lang=en"},"modified":"2019-03-07T19:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:49:30","slug":"teaching-to-teach-in-monastic-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moses.it\/en\/teaching-to-teach-in-monastic-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"TEACHING TO TEACH IN MONASTIC SCHOOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Teach to Teach<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Teach to teach<\/strong>is a Moses initiative aimed to improve the educational offering and the basic services<\/strong>in the poor rural communities of Myanmar, through empowerment<\/em><\/strong>and capacity building<\/em><\/strong>of local schools, institutions, and community members. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The scope is to create favorable conditions to a spontaneous development of the local communities and the improvement of their life conditions and perspectives.<\/p>\n

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Myanmar<\/strong>\u2019s government is a repressive regime<\/strong>that only lately has started to show some opening<\/strong>. The basic services and the education programs are of very low quality<\/strong>, and often totally lacking in the rural areas.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the rural communities<\/strong>have created a chain of informal schools (Ba-Ka schools)<\/strong>that are actually performing better than the national system. With the help from the local monasteries and the communities members, those schools have become actual aggregation centers, that also provide basic services.<\/p>\n

The Ba-Ka schools<\/strong>, along with the local institutions (monasteries and rural villages committees) are the focus of Teach to Teach.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion][vc_tta_section title=”What are the project\u2019s objectives?” tab_id=”obiettivi”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

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  • To improve the organization skills<\/strong>in the schools.<\/li>\n
  • To increment the teachers skills and competencies<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  • To increase the school system\u2019s ability to deal with the basic needs from both the children<\/strong>and the community members.<\/li>\n
  • To develop the support material for the teachers<\/strong>and the communities leaders.<\/li>\n
  • To sensitize parents and families<\/strong>about the importance of education.<\/li>\n
  • To create a network of schools<\/strong>, with the aim of harmonizing the education programs, facilitate the exchange of experiences and best practices, and develop a synergy for the general improvement of the education quality.<\/li>\n
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    [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Read more” tab_id=”more”][vc_column_text]The initiative is directly addressed to the Ba-Ka schools. It includes intensive training courses for selected teachers<\/strong>from various schools, who in turn cascade their knowledge to their colleagues in the communities. The training program is focused on lessons planning, innovative education approach and methodologies, and cooperation among the schools. <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Moses implemented the initiative in 2013 and 2014\u00a0<\/strong>thanks to the crucial cooperation with Hanta Educators<\/strong>, an association of Burma university teachers that have been purged following the 1988 closing of the Yangon University (due to the students protest movements). The Hanta teachers have become Moses operational structure, and are in charge of training teachers for the Ba-Ka schools of two Burma regions.<\/p>\n

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    In 2013\u00a0<\/strong>the initiative was focused on the Sagaing region<\/strong>and involved 42 Ba-Ka schools, 135 teachers, and over 3,300 students.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    The Hanta Educators organized two training cycles, attended by 60 selected teachers from 42 schools. After the training cycle, the teachers returned back to their communities, where they cascaded the notions to their colleagues under the Hanta supervision and control.<\/p>\n

    The Hanta Educators also created guidance books for the teachers – actual personalized manuals tailored on the needs of the Ba-Ka schools \u2013 and innovative teaching tools, mainly realized with recycled material.<\/p>\n

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    In 2014\u00a0<\/strong>the initiative followed the same approach, in the Katha region<\/strong>. In that case 21 Ba-Ka schools, 62 teachers, and over 1,700 children have been involved.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row text_align=”center”][vc_column text_align=”center”][vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”8114,8112,8134,8132,8130,8128,8126,8124,8122,8120,8118,8116″ img_size=”270″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Teacher training for teachers in the monastic schools of the Sagaing Region (Myanmar).
    \nThe activity involves 28 schools with the aim being to improve the educational offering and the basic services in poor, rural communities of Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-we-have-done"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t