Updates for Building Quality Classrooms in 2009
Quality Classrooms: Elevating Girls' Education
Tuesday, December 21, 2010EDUCATING GIRLS FOR THE FUTURE
The value of educating girls can't be overestimated. Study after study indicate that when you invest in girls' education, your return is higher than when you in invest in boys. Girls are more likely to apply lessons from school to their everyday lives.
So, the old adage is true: when you educate a girl, you truly do educate a community.
Sports Competition Report
Tuesday, June 15, 2010MORE THAN JUST AN ACTIVITY
To show what an important role sports and art play in imagine1day's schools in Ethiopia, an interschool competition was held in the town of Adigudom from February 26th to 28th, 2010. Over a thousand people attended the competition to watch 195 students with 27 teachers from 27 imagine1day schools compete in a variety of sport and art events.
Quality Classrooms Impact
Saturday, November 7, 2009WHAT IS ACTIVE LEARNING?
We posed this question to Ato Mulat Gebre, who led a 5-day teacher training session on the topic. In his 20 years as a teacher, Ato Mulat has seen big changes in the classrooms of Ethiopia. The most pronounced is the shift from lecture-based learning, a top-down approach where the teacher delivers information to students which they memorize and then regurgitate, to a student-centered, participatory approach. This methodology engages students through their different senses and learning styles; be it visual, aural, tactile or kinetic; hence "active" learning.