{"id":3434,"date":"2016-02-25T11:48:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T11:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2016-03-05T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T12:14:17","slug":"thinking-schools-ethiopia-tigrayphase-3school-site-visitsprofessional-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=3434","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Schools Ethiopia – Tigray
Phase 3
School Site Visits
Professional Development
Kalamino Special High School
Andishumdihun Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"andishduhun<\/a> By Dagim Melese and Atsede Teshayou<\/em>
\nPhotos and Video by Atsede Tsehayou and Dagim Melese
\n<\/em>
\nThinking Schools Ethiopia\u2014Thinking Schools Tigray<\/strong><\/em> began a third phase with ongoing scaffolding support for whole school systematic implementation of Thinking Schools pedagogy including Thinking Maps across all disciplines and at all grade levels. Thinking Schools Ethiopia<\/a> – Tigray is a\u00a0collaboration of\u00a0Tigray Development Association<\/a>\u00a0and Thinking Foundation<\/a>\u00a0for 37 model schools in 12 Woredas located in all \u00a07 zonal administrations with funding administered by Initiative Africa<\/a> for a Girl’s Empowerment Whole School Change grant from Sida (Swedish Development Agency)<\/a>\u00a0that began as a grass roots project by Robert Seth Price<\/a>\u00a0along with lead country trainers Atsede Tsehayou<\/a> and Dagim Melese<\/a>.\u00a0Read the chapter on Ethiopia<\/a> in the Corwin Press book Pathways to Thinking Schools<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Kalamino<\/a><\/p>\n

Kalamino Special High School<\/strong>
\n\"Kalamino<\/a>The scaffolding support began being provided to Kalamino Special High school located in the regional capital – Mekelle.\u00a0 On site school support includes collegial coaching, brief\u00a0 refreshment \/ reinforcement training and class room demonstration of lessons modeling the actual use of Thinking Maps\u00a0in real class rooms with students employing other interrelated pedagogical techniques and tools. Thinking Schools Ethiopia (TSE) trainers (Atsede and Dagim) began on Feb. 22, 2016 working with the educators of Kalamino High School for strengthening the whole school implementation\u00a0of the maps and documentation of impacts on such dependent variables as student engagement, levels of independent learning skills, literacy and communication skills and others.<\/p>\n

\"Kalamino<\/a><\/p>\n

The on site schools support is believed to motivate and encourage intensive class room use of Thinking Maps and support better practices of student centred techniques \/ methods . Following are photos taken of the site supports.\"Kalamino<\/a><\/p>\n

Andishumdihun Elementary School\u00a0<\/strong>
\n\"andishduhunSite visit at Andishumdihun elementary school encouraged the school leader to employ a more systematic implementation of thinking maps by having them posted on walls of all class rooms for students to learn and get to know them . Some vibrant teachers at the school were part of the demonstration lesson done in a physics class room . Taking a lead in terms of modelling the actual use of the maps in class rooms for supporting student centred learning . Below are some of the still pictures taken of the site visit.<\/p>\n

\"andishduhun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Dagim Melese and Atsede Teshayou Photos and Video by Atsede Tsehayou and Dagim Melese Thinking Schools Ethiopia\u2014Thinking Schools Tigray began a third phase with ongoing scaffolding support for whole school systematic implementation of Thinking Schools pedagogy including Thinking Maps across all disciplines and at all grade levels. Thinking Schools Ethiopia – Tigray is a\u00a0collaboration… Continue reading Thinking Schools Ethiopia – Tigray
Phase 3
School Site Visits
Professional Development
Kalamino Special High School
Andishumdihun Elementary School<\/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-3434","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-To","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3268,"url":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=3268","url_meta":{"origin":3434,"position":0},"title":"Tigray Ethiopia: Thinking SchoolsAksum: Seka School","author":"admin","date":"November 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"by Tsehaye Hagos Tigray Seka Elementary School Thinking Schools Ethiopia Trainer of Trainer The photos above and below are from Seka Elementary School in the Aksum\u00a0region in\u00a0Tigray Ethiopia. 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