We Meet Our Co-teachers

These pictures were sent to us while we were in training. Carol's co-teachers were Nipon (in the first picture) and Maa and Dtai in the second picture (Maa is the second from the left and Dtai is on the right).

It must have been a Wednesday because the students are wearing their scout uniforms (not related to the Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts organizations in America. Students wear uniforms every day. There is also the official uniform worn three days/week and a sports uniform worn 1 day/week. Students who cannot afford uniforms are assisted by monies raised by the school (usually from school garden sales).

Bob's teachers are Toy (seated on the right in the third picture with the science teacher) and Tawee in the last picture.

During our first three weeks in the village, we met with our co-teachers to set up some strategies and create some lesson plans as well as some teaching visuals. We later discovered that the lesson planning was a new concept to Thai teachers and that a new mission would be to introduce planing, establishing learning objectives, grade books, and seating charts in addition to introducing student-centered education as opposed to the teacher-centered style that exists in Thailand.