Session training report (Team EFL in Haiti), Gonaives, Haiti December 16, 17, 18, 2017

We are pleased to share the report of our training that we organized in Gonaives from 16th to 18th December 2017, after taking part in the train the trainer program at MIIS Team EFL Haiti last year At St André School from Plateau Central. At first I can’t miss this moment not to greet Mrs Lisa for her help because she sacrifices her time to make possible this training that many teachers were happy to take part on it. A big thanks too Rotary (Hinche), for the financial support of the training session. The trainers were: Gregory Pierre, Ulysse Gestin and Kesnel Décius. In order to advance towards the achievement of targets set by Team EFL Haiti that is a joint project between the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) and the Ministry of Education. In Gonaïves, we have organized it at “Redemption school” where we were allowed to realize the training. 
Let’s talk about the main goal of Team EFL Haiti who is to enhance the design and delivery of English language instruction to the students in Haiti through cooperation with St. Andrew's School and language teachers in the area in order to advance teacher professional development and Higher English language proficiency outcomes for students.
 
In the session there were several phases. We can quote:

1. Chose some means to organize the training.
2. Planning and launch of invitations for training (Buy materials for the training session)
3. Accomplishment phase of the training session;
4. Feedback of the training session
5. Prepare the place for the graduation Ceremony
6. To finish graduation Ceremony

 

1. Chose some means to organize

For planning the activities before realizing the training session, we met at a place in Gonaïves, ( Alliance française)  where  we have selected special documents to facilitate the training. And we profited buy this moment to discuss about how to teach the subjects, we planned the schedule.

1. Planning and launch of invitations for training

In this part it was a little difficult for us to join people to take part in the training because people from Gonaïves doesn’t really trust in training, specially the teachers they don’t care about improving knowledge, despite of making many cards in other to invite them, most of them decline the invitation. We went over almost all the high school around the city to find enough teachers to participate in the training. The most difficult thing we met in the process the teachers pretend that we would pay them a lot of money but when we explain them about the possibilities, averages or advantages, we told them that is a sharing with others program. They say that it’s not a serious program because we have money to buy materials we suppose to get money to tip all the trainers, that was the mean reason who puts us in difficulty to find teachers.
These meetings were successful. We have developed a form of exit ticket (2. 2. 2.), evaluation, our agenda after having set our goals. Such as:
At the end of the session Trainees will be able to (SWBAT)

1. Prepare students for using English outside the classroom in real situations.
2. Use an icebreaker as a warm up.
3.  Plan lessons properly.
4. Explain how communicative language teaching is important.
5. Set their goals Normally
6. Administrate a rubric to evaluate their students to record returns (feedback).

 

1. Implementation phase of the training session

In this, there were three (3) trainers and twenty seven (27) trainees invited to participate in our training. The names of trainees, their emails and their phone numbers a listed below. There are some people who don’t give enough information, if you see some blank cases.
See the timesheet: 
timesheet.docx

Team EFL Haiti
Train-the-Trainer, Session 16, 17, 18 December 2017, Gonaives, Haiti
A Rotary Global Grant Project
Pedagogical Training for English teachers and others educators
Institution   Mixte la Redemption, Gonaïves, Haïti
AGENDA
 
Saturday, 12/16
9h00 AM-9h30AM: Presentation ( Ulysse)
9h30-10h00:  Breakfast (Gregory)
10h00-10h15: Prayer and Ice-Breakers (Ulysse)
10h15-11h00: Introduction (MIIS team EFL and the trainers) Kesnel 
11h00AM-12h00 PM: Basic English (Kesnel and Gregory)
12h00PM-1h00PM: Diner (Ulysse)
1h00-2h00: Basic English (Kesnel and Gregory)
2h00-3h00: Goal setting (Gregory and Kesnel)
3h00-3h10: Break time
3h10-3h20: Simond says, Ice-Breakers (Gregory)
3h20-3h50: Songs, you are my strenth (Kesnel)
3h50-4h00: 222 (Ulysse)
 
Sunday, 12/17
9h00-9h30: Breakfast (Gregory)
9h30-9h40: Prayer and song (Kesnel)
9h40-9h50: Show me how you get down, Ice-Breakers (Ulysse)
9h50-10h00: Summary
10h00-12h00: Goal setting (Gregory and Kesnel)
12h00PM-1h00PM: Diner (Ulysse)
1h00-2h30: Communicative Language Teaching, CLT ( Ulysse and Gregory)
2h30-2h40: Break time
2h40-3h00: Songs (Above all) Kesnel
3h00-3h50: What a good teacher is?   (Ulysse)
3h50-4h00: 222
 
Monday, 12/18
10h00-10h10: Communication activity, Ice-Breakers (Ulysse)
10h10-10h20: Summary
10h20-11h00: Hand washing (Gregory and Kesnel)
11h00-11h15: Feed back
11h15-12h00: Evaluation, Jeopardy (Gregory and Kesnel)
12h00-2h00: Graduation (A song, discourse and thanks, certificate, Collation)     

1. Use an icebreaker as a warm up.

Generally we use an icebreaker to begin and we also use it when the students feel exhausted. 





Icebreakers
Leaning names
How to administrate
By this activity we take all the trainees away, we go on the yard. We make them form a circle and ask to one of them to cite his name after that another one will cite the first name before citing his. And that is the same for each person; you cite all the names you have heard before after that you add yours.
That help the trainees to familiarize each other, we get habit with some voice.
Importance
That helps us to check their memories: the way that they save the name gives us an idea about how they can memorize the lessons.

Icebreakers
D.O.W.N
How to administrate
That’s an activity by  it we have learned a very good sung that title “D.O.W.N” in that activity we choose someone around the crowd to come in front and show how he gets “D.O.W.N” by a gesture and all the others trainees will follow the same gesture and try to reproduce it similarly.  
Importance
That activity permits to the trainees to relax themselves. That makes them exercise. That makes them move their bodies laugh and distract a little bit. 

Icebreakers
Hand washing’s Demonstration  
How to administrate
That was an activity where we had invite people to wash their hands. We ask them to follow the way that they see we wash our hand and after that to do the same. In that we use soap, water, some cups, a container. We follow all of the six steps without tell them about that and make them follow us.
Importance
By this activity the students know how to wash their hands properly by following all of the six steps of “washing Hands” and that connects them too to the next lesson.

Icebreakers
A special dates
How to administrate
Every student write in a piece of paper three dates that they pretend important in his life, after that we group by four or five and classify those dates chronologically. And discus into groups.
Importance
That helps the trainees know about the priority of the things, to know about ordering things in the life.

Icebreakers
Two truths and one lie
How to administrate
It’s an activity by it the students form some groups they use a piece of paper to write three things among them two truths and one lie, they will share that into the group in to another one from the group guess what is the lie. And in the end we choose some members in some groups to share things that they wrote and all of the class will find the lies.
Importance
That help to the student to analyze face of people in other to guess the things that they say falsely. That can help than by making a survey too.

Icebreakers
Morning circle
How to administrate
Like explain the name it’s an activity that people form a circle: that is divided in three parts:
- In the first one people imitate an animal and they do them walking way of the animal to go to greet each other. We call that part “greeting”
-In the second part of this activity someone pass in the center of the circle and share some exciting things with the colleagues and gives a way to applaud him. This part is called “Sharing”
-In the last part we divided people by small groups of five people; one of them will get the middle and close his eyes then drop his body anywhere over the group and the others members will serve him as support.  We call that part “group activity”
 Importance
By this activity the students will become confidents towards people and get habit to communicate publicly.

1.  Set their goals and their lessons properly.

The challenge that we use in the first day of the training session did, presentation and basic English, lesson planning, the point object to improve the trainees during evaluation of the first day. They noticed how our preparation we help to succeed the day completely. They realized that there is no favorable wind for a person who not knows where he goes.
 
After our sharing on goal setting and lesson planning, trainees understand that it is very important to prepare before going into the classroom.
 
In their group work, they demonstrated the way that "Every lesson should be a response" and a proper formulation of a objective. Two concepts that should not be overlooked. They are:

• Content: (Subjects: Mathematic, history, geography etc.}

 

• Language: (The trainees can use the content of a lesson presented, they can be use: grammar, structure, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc...)

 
They also show that all formulations of specific objectives require four broad levels. Such as:

• Metacognitive: Thinking about thinking (understanding)
• Cognitive: Thinking about Understanding
• Affective: Emotions, resentment, feeling 
• Performative or psychomotor: Doing Shares / Practice

 
To prepare a specific objective, you must think about:

• Category’s learners.
• Use Action verbs. (Bloom's Taxonomy).
• Division of the themes of your content.
• Duration and the theme of each lesson.
• Appropriate language
• Give some team activities
• Do a diagnostic evaluation. And so on.

 

1. Explain the importance of communicative language teaching.

For starting the first day, we explained the importance of communication in the learning process. We show the trainees to use an appropriate language in his classroom for helping student understand. In implementation of CLT in our session, they understood that the CLT is a mean that facilitates a good teaching.
Language:  We use it in linguistic. We do the difference between Written and Oral language that have several similarities. It is necessary to take into account the specificities of the spoken. We can say that CLT it’s a key we can use to teaching and learning.

1. In the last day we administrated the rubric and JOEPARDY to evaluate the trainees or to record returns (feedback) on their learning.

 
 We used the lessons plan by 5 groups of our class to develop our Rubric.
See the:
rubric.docx

The way that we organized the game, content of each lesson topic / chapter with the points.
See JEOPARDY:
jeopardy.docx

1. Put the students in the situation to use English anywhere in real situations.

The feedback from trainees about the session let us understand that the session has fulfilled their expectations and that they will implement all they learned in the session because a number of them feel happy to spend this days with us say that they really yearn to participate at another  training session with Team EFL Haiti.

1. Prepare the place for the graduation Ceremony

We chose some people in the training to prepare the place for the graduation Ceremony; they bought some materials to prepare some flowers to decorate it.   

1. Graduation ceremony.

Despite the difficulties we encountered during the JEOPARDY game it does not escape that the delivery of certificates passed perfectly. We encountered a lot of problems during this game, a lot of contestation, the participants wanted more time for this activity. But it was really good, we received a lot of testimony, it was the activity to finish the session.
Finally we can say that we organized a great training and we would like to thank Ms. Lisa and the director of Rotary club Hinche again, Mr. Harry.  

                                                                                                                                 PIERRE Gregory
                                                                                                                                 ULYSSE Gestin
                                                                                                                                 DECIUS Kesnel

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