Training Workshops

(Locations to be determined)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

November 9 - 13, 2008

WORKSHOP PURPOSE:
The purpose of the training seminars is to train instructors to help young people be adaptable lifetime learners as the world situation and the demands of the marketplace change. In the one-day workshops,  various teaching methods will be used to introduce educators to new teaching skills.  Instruction   emphasize importance of helping children learn through various modalities:  visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, including active learning methods. The instruction  will stress taking into account the individual differences and needs of students. Participants will discuss in group study, ways to make schools into stimulating and caring centers of learning by transforming classroom and school climates and encourage teachers to develop nurturing relationships with their students.  Seminar activities will also  provide information for handling children with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. The workshops  will discuss how to identify these problems in children and techniques to help them become successful learners and confident students.  All sessions are focused on parent-teacher cooperation and how the family-school bond can be strengthened for the benefit of the student. 

Dates

Activity

Remarks

November 9, 2008

 (Sunday)  

Day free in Sarajevo

Proposed Activities 

TWI Workshops in Bosnia

 9 - 13 November 2008

Bonnie Miller will present three full-day workshops to educators in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  These multiethnic groups of teachers will participate in the group work and role plays  throughout the workshops.  Power point presentations, video, discussion, demonstration, and hands-on exercises will be used to bring information and skills to the teachers employing visual, auditory and kinesthetic modalities.

Topics of these seminars will concentrate on identifying students with Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder and the academic, social and emotional difficulties faced by these children both in and out of school. Mrs. Miller will discussed  methods to help children in the classroom and demonstrate that many  interactive techniques and ways to make learning interesting and relevant to the learner also work well with all kinds of students. 

The seminars will also included role plays to improve the quality and effectiveness of the mandatory quarterly teacher-parent conferences.  At the end of each seminar, teachers will discuss how they would use the methods in their classrooms and how they would share the three manuals and video and information gained from the workshop with their colleagues.

November 10, 2008

 (Monday)

• day free

Journal of Results

November 11, 2008 

 (Tuesday)

• Workshop in 
  

November 12, 2008

 (Wednesday)

• Workshop in 

November 13, 2008

 (Thursday)  

• Workshop in