Workshops

The excellent teachers were all out to present their best contribution of teaching ideas. Two workshops were organised and presented by the two trainee teachers and Celeste; an experienced teacher trainer.

Jessica and Donna talked about story telling and the techniques to attract an audience and participants. Naomi, a local interpreter took the task of translation and she was just as excellent as she truly emulated actions so precisely.

The trio; young in age are potent in their teaching skills and spoke clearly that intonation, eye contact, facial expressions and act it outs are essential elements to good story telling lessons in the classroom. Energetic and full of vitality, they were indeed exemplary learners and teachers. Many took after their advice and put up story telling performance in the hall.

This particular teacher did his best and used skills stipulated by Jessy and Donna and we believe that the workshop was an eye opener to the many present.

Next, Ms Celeste an experienced teacher trainer took the floor to show that songs and dance are keys to experiential learning in the classroom and gave many instances of the theme. Brave Celeste will be serving in Sarawak to the many locals there in great conviction.

 Celeste and her bend, swing , tap dance got all of us on hour feet using recyclable plastic bottles, coconut shells, and the stick to show us the skills. The accompanying music was trendy and rocked us all together in laughter.

Her scarf dance was a hit among us and the Cambodian teachers. Juat Ngoh and Mary could not resist the dancing steps and felt good that they could still do it.

Look at the smile and the gleeful spirit.

They really enjoyed the movements and steps and would gladly do it again, 

I am sure.

 The scarves were too feminine for the males. They too had their turn at a different dance; the ball dance. Celeste managed to get the supply of paper balls from Shanghai where she had served for the last 4 years.

The workshops gave new, bright ideas to the locals.

Good job.