TEACHER TRAINING IN OUR SCHOOLS

Language & Curriculum 

During late 2006 and early 2007 GETSuk held a 5 day training programme with all our teachers in First Aid. This provided a perfect opportunity for all our teachers from the 4 GTS/GETS schools to meet together and get to know each other.

 This was followed by teacher training sessions for the heads and one classroom teacher, these were most successful and will be resumed in early 2008 as soon as funding is available.

A volunteer at work 
in the classroom

The Curriculum

The GETS curriculum's focus is on correctly spoken English, with good comprehension, well formed writing and competent reading. 
To carry this out, our teachers must have the resources and delivery skills to obtain what we are aiming to achieve.
The teaching resources will be made in The Gambia at our own specialist resource centre.

Volunteers

The curriculum will be divided into teaching weeks so that volunteers can be primed with the core teaching objectives for their time in a GETS school.
Volunteers will spend some of their time preparing the relevant resources and some of their time in the class rooms.

As a charity we always welcome English speaking volunteers to attend our schools as classroom assistants to help all of our teachers improve their spoken English, extend their vocabularies and correct their diction and pronounciation.

Often no previous teaching skills are needed for this BUT volunteers with teaching practice are of great benefit in helping our teachers to produce teaching support resources and showing how to use them in and out 
of the classrooms.

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