{"id":1369,"date":"2013-06-11T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2013-06-19T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T12:34:08","slug":"thinking-schools-ethiopia-to-support-initiative-africa-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Schools Ethiopia to support Initiative Africa Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/intafri-logo1.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1375\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?attachment_id=1375\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/intafri-logo1.png?fit=176%2C146\" data-orig-size=\"176,146\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"intafri-logo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/intafri-logo1.png?fit=176%2C146\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/intafri-logo1.png?fit=176%2C146\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1375\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"intafri-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/intafri-logo1.png?resize=176%2C146\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>Thinking Schools Ethiopia\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eminence-se.org\">Eminence Social Entrepreneurs<\/a>)\u00a0in\u00a0collaboration\u00a0with Initiative Africa has organized a two day training on thinking methodologies, reading\u00a0and\u00a0spelling. The training will be conducted from June 15-16, 2013 at the 4 kilo Sports and Education Center.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Participants\u00a0are\u00a0thirty school leaders and six education Bureau officers from\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371110533633_4289\">selected schools in\u00a0<\/span>Addis Ababa,\u00a0<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371110533633_4276\">Kolfe Keraniyo and Gullele sub-cities<\/span>,\u00a0Boset Woreda, East Shewa, Oromia<span id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1371110533633_4280\">\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0Angolela Tera Woreda, North Shewa, Amhara regions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<strong>Purpose:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connecting the All Children Reading Initiative with Growing Thinking Schools Ethiopia Approach for a Sustainable Initiative.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multi-directional development is a belief system and model where all participants recognize their own capacity for aiding the others globally: ideas and innovation originate within and across all places globally.<\/li>\n<li>Whole systems change involves \u2018whole schools\u2019 in implementation including all students, staff, teachers, administration and parents.<\/li>\n<li>People must have an understanding, \u2018buy-in\u2019, and develop mastery of methods for change to root and become imbedded in the process of change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Methodology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thinking Schools Ethiopia is a 21st century sustainable model developing educators and children who are innovative thinkers through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>whole school training with methodologies \u2013 a systems approach<\/li>\n<li>training leadership team as leaders using and modeling methodologies to be the leaders and guides<\/li>\n<li>creating models of excellence using methodologies that are research based, examples of success in the field and create models of excellence to build upon<\/li>\n<li>creating new innovative patterns \u2013 the brain seeks patterns and to change how we teach children to be lifelong thinkers starts with the leadership and educators<\/li>\n<li>Methods\/tools that are lifelong learning tools; across all disciplines; involve and used by all levels of the community within the school and outside the school from students to adults. Reflective Questioning; Visual Tools; Collaborative Networking\/Learning; Structuring Environment; Developing Dispositions; Thinking Skills<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative training model for developing highly qualified Ethiopian facilitators\/trainers<\/li>\n<li>Ongoing Action Research<\/li>\n<li>Criteria for achieving \u2018Thinking Schools\u2019 accreditation<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Initiative Africa: \u00a0<a title=\"Initiative Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.initiativeafrica.net\">www.initiativeafrica.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking Schools Ethiopia\u00a0(Eminence Social Entrepreneurs)\u00a0in\u00a0collaboration\u00a0with Initiative Africa has organized a two day training on thinking methodologies, reading\u00a0and\u00a0spelling. The training will be conducted from June 15-16, 2013 at the 4 kilo Sports and Education Center.\u00a0Participants\u00a0are\u00a0thirty school leaders and six education Bureau officers from\u00a0selected schools in\u00a0Addis Ababa,\u00a0Kolfe Keraniyo and Gullele sub-cities,\u00a0Boset Woreda, East Shewa, Oromia\u00a0and\u00a0Angolela Tera Woreda,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=1369\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thinking Schools Ethiopia to support Initiative Africa Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","gallery-content-unit","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7oKjh-m5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2428,"url":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=2428","url_meta":{"origin":1369,"position":0},"title":"\u2022 Making Change Happen\u2022 Thinking:  Quality Education\u2022 Thinking Schools Tigray Ethiopia","author":"admin","date":"October 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"October 2015 Thinking Schools Ethiopia: \u00a0Tigray Trainings Thinking Schools stage 2 professional development will continue this month with Growing Thinking Schools. 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