A school-specific background study has now been conducted and the actual training program can begin. Participants from Future Starts Now Gambia -school and EMMA school arrive at 10 am to run laptop setup and make personal competence development plans (PCDP).
-Do you like teaching? I ask at the beginning of every PCDP-interview. In addition to "yes", I get a wide smile and twinkling eyes from everyone. There is an admirable amount of sense of meaning in the answers. Almost everyone lacks previous teacher training so the training program will be needed. Schools are different so there will be different needs too. In the training program we'll have modules that are common to all but we'll also find specific tools for programming, management or children's IT training.
As Finnish teachers we can bring a lot to The Gambia but, for real, this is about co-operation. Education system is always connected to local culture so there is no way to produce proper system alone without locals. It seems that we will have a very nice pilot group so we are looking for next 1½ years with a lot of hope and enthusiasm.
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