Red Deer Alberta Rotary Supporting Literacy In Belize, in San Ignacio, Volunteers

August, 2011

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Literacy Alive! August 2011 PD

Five outstanding educators provided in excess of five full days of professional development to the teachers and administrators of the six pilot schools in the project. The Ministry of Education leaders from the Cayo district also participated in the learning experiences which focused on effective approaches to literacy teaching and learning. The VTT team led discussions and planning sessions that assisted the Belize educators with strategies to approach the literacy assessment of students in the pilot schools and to determine essential teaching/learning resources and a series of teaching strategies to address the literacy learning needs of students in the pilot schools. The Alberta teachers used a ‘train the trainer’ or ‘learning coaching’ model in all professional development. The intent of this model encouraged the building of instructional leadership capacity of the stronger teachers in the Cayo region.