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PHOTO ESSAY: THADINGYUT FESTIVAL

10/19/2021

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candles, lanterns
greet the sky
hello full moon

Happy Thadingyut Full Moon Festival! 

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PHOTO ESSAY: FOOTBALL

2/18/2020

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From the front row, we cheered on our main teacher trainee and his teammates. It was the quarterfinals and they were up against a team from another village.

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PHOTO ESSAY: TAKING CARE OF THE COMMUNITY

11/26/2017

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Our teacher trainees are realizing that learning is not just what happens in the classroom. It's important that we build a stronger community and help each other out. This weekend, we joined the students in cleaning the monastery compound.
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PHOTO ESSAY: TEACHING THOUGHTFULLY

4/26/2017

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Our teacher trainee said that he previously thought that teaching was easy and straightforward. Now, he worries each day that he hasn’t planned the lesson correctly and he worries that he isn’t doing a good job of teaching.

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PHOTO ESSAY: TEACHER TRAINING WITH ENGLISH LANGUAGE

2/21/2017

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I decided that I should incorporate training wherever possible by asking the teachers to think critically about how they could use or adapt the activities in their own classrooms. This critical thinking didn’t need to be done in English and therefore was more of an exercise in implementing active learning within the classroom than a test of knowledge.

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PHOTO ESSAY: PLANNING FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT

1/25/2017

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The teacher trainee came in unprepared for class. Two days later, the same scenario. I felt frustration that we had planned this information yet we were not working to the plan. Where was the plan that we had meticulously poured over? My repeated mantra of the past 4 months has been that planning is paramount. My trainee knew that the lesson was not as good as usual.

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PHOTO ESSAY: HONEST FEEDBACK

1/10/2017

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Culturally, Myanmar people do not like saying ‘no.’ They do not like to disappoint the other party, and they work in a hierarchy which means that a pupil giving feedback to a teacher is unheard of, unless the feedback is ‘it was great, all great. You are a wonderful teacher!’

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PHOTO ESSAY: CHILD DISCIPLINE

12/6/2016

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Ever since I arrived in Myanmar, I have been all too keenly aware that caning the children is common practice. Brandishing it menacingly is even more normal than using it to strike an unruly child.

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PHOTO ESSAY: CLASS CONDITIONS

11/30/2016

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Van and I assumed our position at the back of the cold classroom. Each classroom is where the students learn, sleep and socialize. This is evident from the rack of brightly colored fleece blankets suspended above us on a hanging rack and in the corners of the room out of the way for daytime.

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