First iEARN Teachers Training Workshop Peshawar

22nd, 23rd and 24th November 2004

18 educators from 11  public, private and trust schools have successfully attended the 3 days iEARN Teachers Training Workshop from 22nd-24th November 2004.

The participating schools are public, trust and community schools.

"I came to know about the global educational forum for the first time. Watching the iEARNers at work, searching different project websites, reading posting, discussing group wise, presenting our plan, everything altogether went well. Now at the end of the 24 hours workshop I determine to initiate a project in my particular branch of Peshawar Model School and to strengthen the iEARN family."-Mrs. Noreen Sohail

The three days session was facilitated by veteran iEARNer  Mr Saleem Ibrahim. 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.

iEARN-Pakistan organized a 3 days iEARN Teacher Training Workshop at City University Peshawar. The workshop is a part the iEARN-BRIDGE Program.

Mr. Michael A Spangler  the Principal Officer-  Consulate General of United States, Peshawar  alongwith his colleague Mr. Sheharyar Gul and  the Senior Program Officer of iEARN Pakistan concluded the workshop sessions.

Mr. Spangler joined the group for the closing ceremony and distributed the certificates to the participants.

It was a great opportunity for me to attend the iEARN  workshop. The duration of the workshop was 3 days. It was infact a fruitful course. We were provided an online learning opportunities. It has enabled us to interact with different people of different regions relating to our respective fields. It is the time in my whole professional life that I am attending such a workshop where we are being convinced to make the internet a regular part of our teaching learning process. I hope this course will help me groom myself and boast the passion in me required for effective teaching ---Bushra Shahab

Teachers selected the following iEARN projects for integration in their curriculums .

Lewin

City to City

Virtues

Folktales

"I was one of the participants of the iEARN Pakistan, workshop on teaching training for helping them understand and work on the various projects with their students in collaboration with students and teachers from different schools in many countries around the world. It really was an amazing experience. We the teachers belonging to different schools of NWFP, found ourselves in a very exciting world of knowledge and education. One of the most significant aspects of the programme is the project-based learning environment, something which is still very rare in schools in our part of the world. This I hope will prove the foundation stone in the process of a very meaningful educational program. This ,if pursued sincerely and diligently by the teachers who participated in the workshop must bring a very foundation and positive change in our archaic attitude towards teaching-learning process and our outdated mode of education. The programme coordinator Mr. Saleem Ibrahim was an impressive teacher and really motivated the participant teachers to work seriously for the success of the programme. After attending the workshop I really see myself a part of a very positive minded, peace loving and cooperative section of the humanity. We should make all efforts to make this programme a success because more understanding among the various nations of the world can make it a more beautiful place to live in. After participating in the workshop of iEARN, Pakistan, I got the hope that there is no reason to lose faith in humanity yet! Some people are doing great things to make this world happier and prosperous". - Mr. Ilyas Khan.