Update From Former Science Workshop Teacher

Check out what Curt and his family are up to in East Timor: 

I was asked again to help with the joint UNICEF and Ministry of Education program “Eskola Foun,” which means “New School.”  I helped with the mathematics Training-of-Trainers last year (check out that blog here), and now they asked me to help with the science TOT.

This program is now in its fourth year and has just added on a new group of schools.  It continues to be one of the most effective programs here for affecting change in the classrooms.  The training I gave was to the 69 school coordinators as well as around 50 trainers, all Timorese, who will go out to the schools and live in the community for a week carrying out the school-based training.  This makes great sense, and is supported by research as well:  apparently only 20% of training that happens in the capital gets applied back at schools, whereas 80% of the training received in a given school gets applied.

Read more here: http://timorrising.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/primary-science-training/