iEARN Teachers' Training Workshop at Federal Government School Islamabad

19th -21st August '2004

24 educators from 9 Federal Government  Schools attended a 3 days Training Program from 19th-21st August '2004

Some of the participating schools are adopted by ITA   as a part of their school improvement program. The participating schools and their teachers  are enthusiastic to initiate iEARN projects in their schools. iEARN is also in the process of providing some of the participating schools with computer and internet equipments .

"As a teacher this experience is valuable to  me because only the iEARN platform gave us a chance to express our feelings  all over the world. And most important of all, our students who do not know the computer more than a computing machine will have a unique opportunity to work on different projects with  other students of the world through internet" said an excited participant.

The participants  have enthusiastically completed all the offline and online  workshop activities and made real efforts to learn the skills and understand the concept of shared online learning. The newly launched iEARN-PK Training website proved helpful all through the session.

The three days session was designed and facilitated by :

Sarah Alam who is also the lead facilitator with co facilitation provided by Naila Saad Khan  and Raheela Naz

Also we are thankful to Miss Baela Jamil - the Technical Advisor to Ministry of Education , Beena Raza of ITA  for coordination , outreach and school selection efforts.

iEARN-Pakistan in collaboration with ITA (Idara Taleem O Agahi) and Federal Directorate Islamabad  organized a 3 days iEARN Teacher Training Workshop at the  Federal Government School Islamabad.

Ms. Beena from ITA ,the Principal of Federal Government School were present at the closing of the workshop. The Federal Government Official distributed the certificates among the participating teachers..

The most important thing through their project programme it has given a platform to my wishes which I want to fulfill in my life. We have given different projects here individually or in a group.  I have chosen child labor project and I have made action plan for it and I will work on this project with my students. Being a teacher I feel guilty as I am only serving for those who can pay the school dues while the other hands the poor and down trodden people are left uneducated. Overall this workshop is very beneficial for us".
                                                                           Thanks
Miss Shagufta Shaheen F.G.G.MODEL SCHOOL G/6.1.3

Sometimes one lands on a very new place without any prior idea of what’s going to happen. Fear of the unknown, is natural. First of all I would like to pay thanks to iEARN for arranging a three days workshop for Federal Government teachers in Islamabad. This workshop has provided us the knowledge of collaborative online project work in iEARN. These projects will enhance learning outcomes by engaging students in interactive curriculum based projects.
Coordinator and resource persons guided us in a very effective and friendly manner. Now I have the knowledge to plan a project and also the knowledge of posting the messages.
It is an online multicultural community of students and educators and I think our students would like to join this community.
I really feel happy to join the iEARN family. _Rukhsana Kalsoom

"First of all I want to quote a beautiful remark by Daniel Reyes, a founding member of iEARN : “No one person knows so much that he can’t learn from others, and no one person knows so little that he can’t teach others.”  Well said and true. Before attending the workshop I didn’t know that there is a platform for youth of this world to share their knowledge and ideas. But now I am extremely happy that iEARNis there for connecting our youth to share knowledge as I have joined the huge family of iEARN. IEARN is there to develop friendly relations among youth of this world and to encourage youth from all countries to learn and work co-operatively and collaboratively as the information technology has made this world a GLOBAL village. The workshop we attended was really good and all the resource persons are very nice, friendly and delivered their ideas and iEARN goals, objective and principals very nicely."
I am really happy to join iEARN . ___Saima Shaukat.