Teachers Team 2011

Julie Lindhout, Al Stares, and Theresa Douma flew into Port au Prince on Thursday afternoon.  In the following week they will be having workshops for the teachers at Adoration Christian School on different Art projects, journalling, Math manipulatives, establishing Christian perspective and world view, classroom management and expressive language strategies.  We pray and ask you to pray for a good week of studies and learning for both groups involved.

The seminars have started:  Al has spent a great deal of time teaching about perspective and how important it is to have a Christian perspective on teaching.  The students need to know that the teachers love them and love them as fellow brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ.  We need to understand who Christ is so that we can understand the difference between Christian schools and other schools.  The Holy Spirit works through us to help us look at the world differently than we would by ourselves.  Christians are set apart because we believe different things.  Each subject must be taught in that Christian perspective.  Each teacher needs to instill God in their classes. 

Al and Pastor Octavius



















An interactive lesson with the teachers as they try and figure out what is behind the wall.

Julie has introduced Journal writing.  She has asked all the teachers to be different ages.  The teachers were pretending to be Kindergarten to Grade 2.  She asked them what the weather was like, what day it was and then asked which ones could read it depending on the age of the 'students'.  It was neat to see the teachers pretending to be in different ages and 'trying' to read the words on the blackboard.

Julie teaching in fluent French!!  She did really well explaining what needed to be explained.

Theresa taught the teachers how to use Bingo cards in both Math and Language Arts.  In Language Arts different words were written on the sheet and the teachers had to listen for the words in the story.  The first teacher to reach Bingo received a sticker.  Boy did it competative for that one sticker.

Ilda was the winner of the first round of Bingo!

Throughout the week Theresa is also teaching the teachers different Art lessons.  These lessons include self portraits, mosaics, and paper mache.  It is fun watching the teachers draw and colour and create.