Teacher training
Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Thryn and Gabe
on a computer training course for the teachers at my school. I handled
the logistics at my school while they provided training material in
both English and French. Yesterday, the first group of teachers
finished the 3 lesson course! They can all use Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Excel, do research on the internet and use email. Ideally,
this would have been an easy project, but we are in Cameroon (and
nothing is easy here).
principal, but also the Ministry of Secondary Education.
2. Fêtes – Scheduling between parties was a challenge… In
November it was funeral season and in December it was Christmas and
the New Year.
3. Electricity and Internet – both flakey… both necessities for
computer classes…
4. Keys to the computer lab – it’s hard to teach a class when
you are locked out of the lab
5. Time - Cameroonians don’t respect time Despite our challenges, the teacher training course was a success! We
will continue to have monthly classes for the teachers at my school.
