HOW CAN I IMPROVE MY PRACTICE – IN YEI- AGAIN

The partucipants during blog session

Under umbrella of Teacher Development Program the workshop is held at mine action building in Yei. The participants were combination of mine action employees and Norwegian people aid Yei vocational training centre.
The workshop started on Saturday 28th by following up the progress which the participants have done since the last workshop
The focal points of this workshop were:
· How can the participants find out a mechanism for improving their practice between the workshops.
· How can they benefit from learning groups as an effective tool of learning within and between the workshops?
· How can they use the blogs to describe their practice in details in order to build up an awareness about their practice and discover the weak areas for further improvements?
· Sharing their knowledge and experiences through group discussion.
· How can they utilize the above points to facilitate learning to their students.
The workshop concentrated on the importance of students centered learning as an effective

process which consider the needs of student with respect to his/her ability to learn.
The participants started to accept the new approach of student centered learning carefully at the beginning but after more demonstration about this approach by using brainstorm and group discussion they began to appreciate this as a new way to facilitate learning and to improve their practice putting into their consideration that they can’t learn on behalf of the student and the best thing that they can do is to let the students to take responsibility on their own learning instead of sitting in the classroom and listening.
I think now the participants have gotten many things to apply in their practice and in their daily life. In the same time they are looking forward to the next workshop.

How can I improve my practice -in Juba-

The workshop started on Monday 23th march at Mango camp in Juba under the umbrella of how can I improve my practice to train 22 participants from Multi training center MTC the main focus of the workshop is to help the participants to build up their won awareness toward facilitating learning to their students and trainees through:
Group discussion
Writing a daily log to sum up each day using their own observation and reflection upon their activities and vocational pedagogy as an approach which support and emphasis the practical area.
Sharing their knowledge and practice through face to face interaction and by using Internet as a global mean for sharing ideas and knowledge which is going to help them to reflect on their won practice related to their won trade. They are too interested in explore this area of technology. Their coming challenge is the sustainability of access to Internet in the coming soon future after the workshop ends in order to get familiar to use it.
How to identify problems which are facing instructor in practice and how can he solves them through experiences and doing then learn.
The participants are motivated and eager to participate in all activities especially when it related to Internet and blogs.