Not too long ago we were asked by Nepal's Ministry of Education to spread our teacher training to remote village areas, a task that we would find absolutely impossible due to our young staff being based in Kathmandu, a clear logistical issue of not being able to do any follow up work with schools, and a donor condition of funding that our work is concentrated in the capital city.
However we have now started to try a small experiment by inviting 2 teachers from any remote village school to attend each Foundation course which they must then take back and cascade to other teachers.
The first two teachers from Noble English School, Jhapa District in far Eastern Nepal have just completed the course and one of them has written some notes for me:
"My name is Kripa Regmi and I am an English teacher in nursery and lower kindergarten. Our school is located in Bistamode, it is very small and up to class 5. We have about 100 students, mostly the children of labourers from tea plantations. Their economic condition is very bad.
Our Principal manages the school on his own without any government support.
I have attended the NSA Foundation course with my friend Gita Sharma Regmi because we both wanted good teacher training. Our Principal found the training on the internet and asked for help.
I have learned many good teaching skills from the course, especially about child centred education which we have never heard of before. I really liked it because it is activity based learning, and we learn about values, quality education and also physical and psychological things.
We will try our best to implement this in our school and we are very thankful to NSA and Brian sir for helping us"
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All teachers committed to improving the education available to the children they teach will not fail to be inspired by NSA quality education training.
I urge all teachers, who value NSA's professional development, to contribute their comments to NSA and share their new found skills and knowledge with colleagues.
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