2009-2010 SJK Annual Report - St. John's-Kilmarnock School
2009-2010 SJK Annual Report - St. John's-Kilmarnock School
2009-2010 SJK Annual Report - St. John's-Kilmarnock School
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Karen Baird Leads Sri Lankan<br />
Teacher Training Workshop<br />
On November 4 <strong>2009</strong>,<br />
Karen Baird, <strong>SJK</strong>’s Lower<br />
<strong>School</strong> Learning Support<br />
teacher, flew to Sri Lanka<br />
to lead a new teachertraining<br />
workshop as part<br />
of the Sri Lankan Early<br />
Childhood Care and<br />
Development Project. This<br />
development project<br />
began as a result of the<br />
Tsunami in 2004, during<br />
which many schools were destroyed and teachers were lost. As the IB<br />
organization strongly endorses humanitarian and outreach projects, funds were<br />
allocated to use teachers from IB schools around the world to train Sri Lankan<br />
teachers. IB Asia-Pacific, the Singapore Red Cross and Sarvodaya, a local Sri<br />
Lankan NGO initiated the project.<br />
The workshop was led by Rob Kiddell, Head of the Junior <strong>School</strong> at Glenlyon<br />
Norfolk in Victoria and Ms Baird. They worked, through an interpreter, with two<br />
groups of thirty teachers, who were incredibly enthusiastic, engaged and<br />
desperate for ideas, lesson plans, teaching strategies and classroom management<br />
techniques. The Sri Lankan teachers had very limited training, worked in tiny<br />
village schools with no resources and could not speak English.<br />
This project caused Karen to reflect on her past and present teaching practice<br />
and showed her how much we can give to others simply by sharing our<br />
knowledge and experiences.<br />
Karen Baird and participants in the Sri Lankan Teacher<br />
Training Workshop
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