Within the next several days, fourteen of us will be getting on airplanes to start this experience. We will all meet up in Arusha the weekend of June 23-24, and the fun will begin.
The first couple of days, Monday and Tuesday, we will be learning about schooling in Tanzania. We will observe the student verification interview and visit process for Peace House Secondary School (PHS), and we will visit two other Tanzanian schools.
The next four days will be focused on the teaching seminar which is the biggest part of our trip. Tanzanian teachers lead their classrooms by lecturing and testing. We will provide examples of other ways to teach in the classroom and other ways to enrich students' learning. The staff of PHS have invited teachers from surrounding Tanzanian schools, figuring that since we were going to be teaching, we may as well teach to a larger group. To our amazement, over 120 teachers have signed up to come to the 2-day seminar. We will be truly affecting hundreds of children's lives by helping their teachers learn new educational techniques. It's incredible to contemplate.
Following our seminar days, we have the rare opportunity to visit a traditional Maasai village and learn about this tribe's way of life. Then we finish our Tanzanian adventure with a safari - which promises to be memorable.
We will post here as often as we can! Enjoy reading and following along. Thanks for all the interest and support you have shown each of us. We, and the children of Tanzania, thank you.
-Karen Peterson
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