Kimberly Brown's Blog (11)

This year’s Trainer Workshops focused on the topic of sustainability for Education Beyond Borders Kenya. We facilitated many discussions on how Education Beyond Borders Kenya would be moving forward in upcoming years. From the discussions came the idea of introducing new workshop topics that would be of interest for local trainers, facilitators and teachers.…

Maureen, Noble and I travelled to Nanyuki, Kenya to be part of a Trainer Workshop. Trainers, both experienced and new, were gathering to be part of a joint district (Gilgil, Naivasha and Laikipia)  workshop for the first time. We flew to Nairobi from Arusha on a quick 25 minute flight then made our way through customs at Jomo Kenyatta Airport before getting…

Today is our last day of Education Beyond Borders workshops in Tanzania and we are wrapping up by holding a student leadership seminar. We have twenty six students attending: four students from four of the five secondary schools (Form 1 - Form 4 or grades 8-11) and 9 class or grade 7 students from nine of the thirteen primary schools.…

Yesterday we finished two and a half days of school visits. It was a wonderful opportunity to see the teachers that we had worked with in workshops and visit their schools. It also gave us an opportunity to meet school heads and thank them for supporting their teachers in attending Education Beyond Borders workshops. The first week of facilitator…

Today is the our last day of teacher workshops before we spend two and a half days visiting schools.  In the last seven days we've had 38 teachers from 11 schools in Leguruki Ward attend workshops. Some of the teachers are people we've gotten to know better than others for many reasons. John from Nkoasenga Secondary School has a certain presence in…

Each day we walk back and forth between Rafiki House and CKC Centre for our teacher workshops. We usually walk through town but we have also been taking different paths through a maize crop, across a soccer pitch, through a back path between small farms and see new things every day. The only days that we don't wonder down new paths is on Mondays and…

The Education Beyond Borders' Learning Styles & Differentiated Workshops ran on Monday, July 7th and Tuesday, July 8th at the CKC Centre in King'ori Tanzania. We had worked with facilitators last week to prepare and practice the workshops and that was our opportunity to work with the new Tanzanian facilitators to deliver a workshops. For me the best part of the experience was having the opportunity to work with Yustina, a primary teacher from Nkoasenga Primary School. …

Monday was our opening day of teacher workshops in King'ori, Tanzania. We had a small amount of teachers for the opening day but that number has grown to 36 teachers from schools throughout Leguruki Ward. The teachers are from a variety of primary and secondary schools: Sinai Primary School, Nkoasenga Primary and Secondary Schools, Miririni Primary, Mbaaseny…

Working on Carousel and moving between as animal families. Great fun!!!!

Today is our last day of facilitator workshops in King'ori before we begin the larger teacher workshops in Leguruki and Nagaronuki next week.

We've worked with teacher facilitators to develop workshops focusing on inquiry, collaborative and differentiated learning.…

We have now finished day three of the facilitator workshops in King'ori, Tanzania. We are now working in three small groups to design workshops on differentiated & collaborative learning along with inquiry learning. We are beginning to develop relationships with our Tanzanian colleagues and also beginning to learn their needs as workshop participants. We, as Canadians, worry that we're delivering too much information in too short of a time, are we speaking too quickly or not clearly…

On my first morning in Tanzania I was woken by the sound of talking and laughing from my colleagues, many of whom I would be meeting for the first time face to face. This was our first morning of facilitator workshops in King’ori for teachers from Leguruki and Ngarenynuki Wards in Tanzania. As I lay in bed I thought about my previous evening…