Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten (Alternate title: Teacher training I)

I was nervous about the idea of teaching teachers, but it went GREAT! There were a few times I was worried about their boredom or worried that we were offending them in some way, but when I expected criticism, they gave praise instead.

Most of the teachers at Savva have been there for 5-40 years! Many of them are already in retirement and keep teaching because they love their work and they love the kids. They understood when we talked about remedial learners and behavior problems, eager for fresh solutions to old problems. We also introduced the newer concept of learning styles. Although change takes time, we are thankful to have been received so well. They all completely evaluations that we are so eager to read!

One funny thing you can see in the picture below are some of the role plays the teachers did which were absolutely hilarious! We all knew which kids they were and watching grow men throw fits was too funny for words!

The hope is that perhaps we could have specialized educators visit from the states to do trainings two or three times a year and, with Internet now available at the orphanage schools, perhaps to do even an online training for the teachers!