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Training
Workshops
(Sipovo,
Sanski Most and Velika Kladusa)
Bosnia-Herzegovina
November
9 - 14, 2008
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WORKSHOP
PURPOSE:
The purpose of the
training seminars was 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 were used to introduce educators to new teaching skills.
Instruction emphasized importance of helping children learn
through various modalities: visual,
auditory, and kinesthetic, including active learning methods. The
instruction stressed taking into account the individual differences and
needs of students. Participants discussed in group study, ways to make
schools into stimulating and caring centers of learning by transforming
classroom and school climates and encouraging teachers to develop
nurturing relationships with their students.
Seminar activities also provided information for handling children
with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. The
workshops discussed
how to identify these problems in children and techniques to
help them become successful learners and confident students.
All sessions were focused on
parent-teacher cooperation and how the family-school bond can be
strengthened for the benefit of the student.
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Dates
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Activity
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Remarks
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November
9, 2008
(Sunday)
Day
free in Sarajevo
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Activities
TWI Workshops
in
Bosnia
9
- 13 November 2008
Bonnie Miller presented three full-day workshops to
educators in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
These multiethnic groups of teachers participated in the
group work and role plays throughout the workshops.
Power point presentations, video, discussion, demonstration, and
hands-on exercises were 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 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.
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November
10,
2008
(Monday)
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- Travel
to Sipovo
- Overnight:
Sipovo
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November
11, 2008
(Tuesday)
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- Workshop
in Sipovo
- Travel
to Krazarac
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November
12, 2008
(Wednesday)
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- Workshop
in Sanski Most
- Overnight
Krazarac
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November
13, 2008(Thursday)
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- Travel
to Velika Kladusa
- Overnight
Velika Kladusa
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November 14 2008
Friday
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