PTC Field Trip!!

It has been such a long week of technical training. We have learned all about literacy and the basics of what our positions really mean in practice. Today we split up by Teacher Trainers and Literacy Specialists, and we took field trips to a PTC and to a primary school. Obviously I went to the PTC.

We went to one of our trainer’s sites, a PTC that was only supposed to be 45 minutes to an hour away, but because of construction, it took almost an hour and a half to get there.  (More on this in another blog post). When we got there, we watched our trainer give a lesson on Alphabetic Principle and Phonemic Awareness, which is exactly what we’ve been learning about this week. It was fabulous to be able to see him teach a lesson I’m going to have to teach in a couple of weeks. Throughout the lesson, he was also modelling the use of positive behavior systems, so he gave the class tally marks for behaving well. They were working to us doing a dance for them, something he definitely didn’t run by us beforehand. We’re all pretty laidback people, though, so when they had earned all five tallies by the end of class, we did the best rendition of the Cha Cha Slide in the history of Uganda. Unfortunately, no one recorded it.

Of course, they also danced for us, and I did get that on tape! I also took video of the activity our trainer had his students do. Hopefully I can upload it!