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<\/a>October 2015 Thinking Schools Ethiopia: \u00a0Tigray Trainings 16-17 October 2015: \u00a0 professional development with ALL teachers from ALL model laboratory schools in the Wukro region. The Trainer of Trainers will collaborate with the global TSI trainer, the TSE trainers, and the TDA project coordinator. There will be 450 teachers participating with the 2 day training.<\/li>\n Thinking Schools Ethiopia: \u00a0Tigray is a collaboration of:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Thinking Schools whole school, whole system change model focuses on foundational pedagogical teaching practices that are life long thinking and problem solving methods (see below in this posting and throughout earlier postings).<\/p>\n The Thinking Schools Ethiopia project in Tigray continues with Stage 2 Trainings this month, October 2015, in three Tigray locations in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n The Thinking Schools Ethiopia: Tigray<\/strong> project:<\/p>\n In 2014 the Tigray Education Bureau team is trained by TSI Global Trainer Robert Seth Price and his TSE colleagues Atsede\u00a0Tsehayou and Dagim Melese in a 2 day Growing Thinking Schools Inside Out training held in Mekelle. Robert, Atsede and Dagim\u00a0have collaborated for 5\u00a0years including trainings with thousands of educators in SNNPRS, Addis Ababa and Tigray.<\/li>\n model laboratory schools (one woman teacher and one man teacher to be consistent with the focus of whole school change including girl\/woman empowerment for a total of 72 Trainer of Trainers) will receive 4 days of intensive training to build on their initial 2 days of training in April. Then they will collaborate with the TSI and TSE trainers to train ALL the teachers from all 36 model laboratory schools in three trainings which are two days each in Wukro, Aksum and Shire.<\/li>\n Quality\u00a0change in education\u00a0benefits from:<\/strong><\/p>\n Key acronyms:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Tigray model:<\/strong><\/p>\n The Thinking Schools approach is a whole school transformational design that requires minimal materials for implementation and use. What is needed are school leaders, teachers, students and parents immersed in understanding the methods of Thinking Schools Ethiopia pathways for thinking. Thinking Schools Ethiopia focuses on key methods and pathways that aim at the professional development of teachers to improve the quality of their pedagogy and decision-making. This mindset and practice successfully brings a student centered quality thinking education with the whole school environment through the use of:<\/p>\n Thinking Schools Ethiopia is a whole school systems approach based on building capacity inside out with the aim of developing a foundation that is reflective, sustainable, collaborative and replicable. TSE is part of a greater global collaboration that supports multi-directional development. 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. The Thinking Schools Ethiopia training uses research based thinking methods that are lifelong skills for use with problem solving in school, life and work.<\/p>\n If you would like to know more or are interested in attending a training please contact:<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Thinking Schools stage 2 professional development will continue this month with Growing Thinking Schools. The trainers include Robert Seth Price (Thinking Schools International Global Trainer), Atsede Tsehayou & Dagim Melese (Thinking Schools Ethiopia – TSE) and coordinated by Tesfay Nassr Mohammed (Tigray Development Association – TDA):<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>12-15 October 2015: there will be professional development with 72 Trainer of Trainers for the 36 model laboratory schools. The schools represent 12 Woredas with 2 primary and 1 secondary school from each Woreda. Previously 8 teachers and schools leaders from the 36 model laboratory schools (288 educators) received 2 days of Growing Thinking Schools training. The Trainer of Trainers coming from this group will include one woman and one man teacher from each school. The funding from Sida administered by Initiative Africa is for whole school change with a focus on empowerment and equality for girls. This training and others listed here will be in Wukro, Tigray. The Training will be facilitated by Robert Seth Price (Thinking Schools International – TSI), Atsede Tsehayou & Dagim Melese (Thinking Schools Ethiopia – TSE) and coordinated by Tesfay Nassr Mohammed (Tigray Development Association – TDA).<\/li>\n<\/a>\n
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\nsocial media brings key people together (TDA communications director\u00a0Weldeslasie Reta
\nand TSI global trainer Robert Seth Price \u00a0which then connected TDA executive director Dr. Taddele Hagos with Robert). Three weeks after the initial contact a training took place in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia.<\/li>\n
\nIn April 2015\u00a0thirty six\u00a0(36) model laboratory schools are selected from 12 Woredas with 2 primary and 1 secondary schools from each Woreda. Each school selects eight key educators to participate in a 2 day Growing Thinking Schools trainings held in Shire, Aksum and Wukro. Aksum and Mekelle university professors also participated.<\/li>\n
\nOctober 2015: \u00a0two Trainer of Trainers from each of the 36<\/p>\n
\nFuture stages include:
\n\u2014regular site visits from TSE lead trainers to support the school site Trainer of Trainers;
\n\u2014use of video to create a library of ‘models of excellence’ to share locally and regionally;
\n\u2014collaboration with Mekelle and Aksum Universities for accreditation and action research\u00a0(see www.thinkingfoundation.org<\/a>);
\n\u2014scaling the model\u00a0to all schools in each Woreda and throughout the region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
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<\/a>selecting 36 laboratory model schools representing 12 Woredas\u00a0which\u00a0are typically collected together into zones, which form a region. Each Woreda will have 2 primary and 1 secondary laboratory schools. The regions key universities, Mekelle and Aksum will be active participants. The trainings of the schools is divided into 3 cluster areas: \u00a0Shire, Aksum, Wukro.<\/li>\n\n
\nuse of visual tools to organize ones thinking (students, teachers, leaders) with visual tools that are a visual verbal collaborative process of seeing each other\u2019s thinking<\/li>\n
\nhigh quality questioning, listening and discussion skills<\/li>\n
\ncollaborative learning for students; collegial coaching for teachers; community building for the whole school<\/li>\n
\nhow are space (structure and the educators presence) and materials (local and recycled) used with intentionality<\/li>\n
\na mind that is reflective about internal dispositions and actions, while remaining open to other ways in which people are thinking and acting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>\n
\nwebsite: \u00a0www.eggplant.org<\/a>
\nemail: \u00a0robert@eggplant.org<\/a>
\nViber: \u00a0+1 323.397.0630
\nSkype: \u00a0robertsethprice<\/li>\n
\nAddis Ababa, Ethiopia 0912192667<\/li>\n
\nAddis Ababa, Ethiopia 0912102276<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/a>