{"id":4012,"date":"2016-06-07T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2016-06-07T15:52:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:52:04","slug":"mayhanse-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thinkingschoolsethiopia.com\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"Mayhanse Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mayhanse1\"<\/a><\/strong>Thinking Schools Tigrai, Ethiopia
\n<\/strong>By Dagim Melese &\u00a0Atsede Teshayou<\/em><\/p>\n

\"mayhanse6\"<\/a>We reached the Mayhanse Elementary School early in the morning since it would otherwise be too hot to carry out the site visit. We secured a class room for the professional development and classrooms of students for conducting the demonstration lessons.<\/p>\n

We began the training with community building exercises (leading the group forming a circle showing patterns of bodily movements, hand patterns, creative movements with legs, hand and body). We used the hand symbols of Thinking Maps for hand shown patterns signifying the purpose of the professional development training at the site.<\/p>\n

\"mayhanse8\"<\/a>Then we discussed the Principles of the TSE model, research bases of Visual Tools in the areas of neuroscience and cognitive psychology.\u00a0We then modeled the collegial coaching model: Briefing – Lesson – Debriefing.\u00a0Atsede did a class room demonstration lesson on a content related to regional organizations and their goals.
\nShe first modeled the use of circle map with a student . And practiced Think\u2014Pair\u2014Share with the students.\u00a0\u00a0 Then she subsequently modeled the use of Bridge Map with a student before ALL the children.<\/p>\n

Observations at the Site:<\/p>\n