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Connecting Classrooms Near East and North Africa contact seminar

Connecting Classrooms Near East and North Africa contact seminar. Selsdon, 6 th -8 th November 2010. Outline of today’s session. The partnerships Successes; Challenges and ways of overcoming them;   Communicating; Involving students;. Where I am from. Chris Williams crw197@gmail.com

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Connecting Classrooms Near East and North Africa contact seminar

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  1. Connecting Classrooms Near East and North Africa contact seminar Selsdon, 6th-8th November 2010

  2. Outline of today’s session • The partnerships • Successes; • Challenges and ways of overcoming them;   • Communicating; • Involving students;

  3. Where I am from • Chris Williams crw197@gmail.com • Former History teacher • Former Deputy Head and then Acting Headteacher at large 11-18 school • Special Projects Consultant at Lincoln Christ's Hospital School • Partner Adviser in Lincolnshire – Local Authority reprepresentative • British Council Ambassador for the East Midlands

  4. The projects in which I am working Afghanistan (2008-2011): Year 3 The partners? UK – Lincoln cluster – three schools Afghanistan – Mazar-el-Sharif – five schools My roles ? Local authority representative Lead person in one of the schools

  5. The projects in which I am working Sub-Saharan Africa (2010-2013): Year 1 The partners? Nigeria – Lagos Island – three schools (Y1) Uganda – Mukono – three schools (Y1) UK – Louth cluster – three schools (Y1) (Each cluster will add three more schools in Y2 and again in Y3) My role ? Local authority representative

  6. The projects in which I am working China (2010-2013): Year 1 The partners? China – nine schools in Zhuhai Lincolnshire – nine schools south of Lincoln My role ? Support for the local authority representative in writing application and general advice

  7. Five successes • Finding a good name for the project to unite the Nigerian, Ugandan and UK partners: Mvoakraba “Tiny seeds to great trees” Mvule (UG), Oak (UK), Araba (NIG) – pron. Mow - krab – a)

  8. Five Successes 2. An early visit to the UK by a team from one of the Mvoakraba partners in October 2010

  9. Five Successes 3. Afghanistan - teaching units in two of the UK schools • Secondary school – Year 7 Study Skills • Primary school – Six week theme for the Year 5 class embracing most subjects e.g numeracy. literacy, art etc.

  10. Five Successes 4. Afghanistan – hands-on activities in partner schools in both countries: • Greenhouses have been built from old plastic bottles; • Vegetable plots have been created, and crops compared

  11. Five Successes 5. Afghanistan – I visited Kabul in September 2010 to meet partners; - Year 3 planning took place; • Outcomes (products) were exchanged; • School assemblies on my visit have been well received

  12. Five challenges and ways of overcoming them1. Communications

  13. Five challenges and ways of overcoming them2. Technology

  14. Five challenges and ways of overcoming them3. Language (and cultural) differences

  15. Five challenges and ways of overcoming them4. Time scales

  16. Five challenges and ways of overcoming them5. Leadership and teams

  17. Communicating in the UK cluster- how? when? where? • Afghanistan Despite close distances, communications have mainly been by email, with termly meetings at most • Sub-Saharan Africa Key communication is between heads of the three Year One schools at regular general meetings. Mvoakraba is a fixed agenda item

  18. Involving students • All schools in the cluster • Disability Awareness event • Tree-planting event • Primary schools - Monks Abbey weather project - letter exchanges • Secondary schools

  19. General advice with which to finish this presentation • Build a team • Share the tasks across the cluster • Keep the activity content simple to start with e.g. weather data e.g. ‘my journey to school’ e.g. ‘my food this week’ • Plan the first visit as early as possible in Year 1

  20. The end

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