Wednesday, October 21

Into the Schools

We have passed an excellent day in Guwahati. It was our first day in the schools, and we enjoyed meeting the children and the staff. The children behaved wonderfully. (Apparently respect is not earned, it is learned—but, you have to teach it!) There were some snafus so we have some notes for improvement in our handling of materials and scheduling. It was a daunting task trying to prepare lessons for an audience we had such little knowledge of, but they surpassed our expectations, and we found that all material was eagerly devoured. The headteacher has asked us to prepare additional lessons to improve the teaching bag of tricks for her teachers—that is also very encouraging to us.

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