{"id":3544,"date":"2016-03-03T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2016-03-05T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T12:09:20","slug":"zelalem-desta-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=3544","title":{"rendered":"Zelalem Desta Elementary School
Thinking Schools Ethiopia – Tigray
Phase 3
School Site Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students modeling the hand symbol representing the cognitive process of compare and contrast for a Double Bubble Map.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Teachers participating in the school site professional development actively involved with students on their learning and implementation of Thinking Maps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Zelalem Desta Elementary School<\/strong>
\nBy Dagim Melese and Atsede Teshayou<\/em>
\nPhotos and Video by Atsede Tsehayou and Dagim Melese<\/em>
\nZelalem Desta Elementary School is a long established school that was built in the Ethiopian Calendar year of 1947 (1954 Gregorian Calendar). There are 27 teachers teaching in the school . We were informed that due to lack of trained teachers the school had to call back retired teachers to work in the vacant capacities .<\/p>\n

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Of the 27 educators of the school approximately half of them took part in the two days Thinking Maps training held in October. There is only 1 Trainer of Trainer from the school who is at the same time the schools director. In October the Trainer of Trainers received an additional 4 days of Thinking Schools Ethiopia training including Thinking Maps, Community Building, Inquiry and Leadership skills.<\/p>\n

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We followed site visit procedures which includes mini professional development sessions, collegial coaching, classroom demonstration lessons which include teacher briefing and debriefing .<\/p>\n