All too soon we are in the last night. The discussion is lively. We think about the suitability of different methods to the conditions in The Gambia. The topic of the last night is assessment. How the assessment of learning and the assessment of competencies differ from each other?
Catering group gives us an excellent example. Earlier we were asked to give them some kind of written acknowledgment too. So we train to identify the competences related to their activities.
At the end of the training, we arrange ourselves in a corridor with a smiley face at one end and a sad face at the other end. Some of the participants feel sad because the training is ending. -This group feels like a family, someone commented. Others are near to the smiley face. They feel that they got much more than what was expected.
Also teacher of teachers feels happy and thankful. It's hard to imagine a more interesting case than being able to develop teaching together with representatives of a completely foreign culture. We continue working with ICT and social media materials for fundraising. We still have the opportunity for one more period of face-to-face teaching, but we are sure that communicating remotely before that will be much more easy.
Finally, how does an excellent Gambian teacher look like today? He/she is confident, focused, flexible, determinent to teach, goal-oriented, teacher by heart, clear with explanations, gives good introductions, ensures understanding AND he or she is a good motivator, uses different methods and is professional in assessment.
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