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Comment on The Great Fire of London by Paul Bevan

Paul Bevan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:58 +0000

How did it get the title of The Great Fire of London ?

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by mohammed Abu Mallouh- Gaza

mohammed Abu Mallouh- Gaza — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:19:02 +0000

We miss all these nice things in Gaza. Hopefully we can arrange something together for Gaza teachers.

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by Amira Yasin

Amira Yasin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:23:55 +0000

A very exciting experience with Luke & Tim, I’ve learned many things about MOE and Drama. New experience, a new way to use in the classroom with he children knowing how to imagine things with them. I also learned how to differenciate between inquiry, drama and MOE.
The Olive tree tasks gave me confidence that we an do it as teachers and we can succeed.
Personally, I’m working on doing my own project as soon as we get to school.
Thanx Luke, thanx Tim. We will always remeber what you did to all of us, how you were patient with us especially me and my endless questions.
I thank you very much.

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by Maha Wahdan

Maha Wahdan — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:51:05 +0000

It was from the early beginning of this workshop when i felt that it would make something different while the time passes i started to recognize the tremendous amount of learning and knowledge i started to gain . Lots of old concepts started to appear differently (imagine&pretend) learning is all about us and not me, we and not i , how important is planning for every single work and what is the important of the inessential step. But maybe the most important knowledge came out from my daughter’s mouth when she told me after she attended the olive tree activity: mama there was nothing wrong in what we were saying everything could be right adults were listening carefully to what we were saying and (we) came up with the solution, adults were playing,singing and dancing with us.I wish if my class at school could be the same.
Only at that time I recognized how much lecturing we make in our classes and how much space our children need and how could our judgments be frustrated to those children.
Finally ,it was one of the most valuable experiences of my life.Thanks a lot for Tim & Luke for giving me new strategies for learning,it was pleasure to work with you.

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by arwa farrah

arwa farrah — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:30:38 +0000

هذه الدوره من اروع واكثر الدورات التي مررت بها اكسبتنى الكثير من المهارات والخبره وخاصه اليوم الذي كان بمثابه تحدي لدي مع نفسي, عبر مشروع شجرة الزيتون بمشاركه الاطفال, كان يوم رائع وشاق بالنسبه لي تعلمت الكثير الكثير,كانت هناك اسئله كثيره تدور في رأسي عن كيف سننجح في جذب الأطفال واهتمامهم بالمشروع ,وكيف سيتفاعل الاطفال معنا ويشاركوننا العمل (اطفال غرباء لا نعرفهم نراهم لأول مره )( لوك وتيم) اجابوا على هذه الأسئله بمهاره فائقه الروعه واسلوب زال هذا التخوف لدي من اول دقيقه من بدأ المشروع اسلوب جعلني اعيش هذه اللحظه كأنها حقيقه احببت العمل واحببت الأشخاص ,الطفله الصغير صديقتتي التي ساعدتني بالمشروع (بيسان)كان لها دور ايضا في تعليمي ساعدتني بأن اشعر انني نجحت بعملي واتنمى بأن التقي بمزيد من هؤلاء الأشخاص الذين يستطيعون ان يغييرو في حياتي للأفضل

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by sanna haddad

sanna haddad — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 20:31:06 +0000

I,m very proud to be in this workshop thats give me a lot of knowlege about mantleexpert how to work with my kids in kinder garden so far all the kids can share without boring .i will trsansfare mygain experience to them.

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by shahd sawalhi

shahd sawalhi — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:06:30 +0000

انا احد الاطفال المشاركين بنشاط اليوم وعمري عشر سنوات بحب احكي ان النشاط كان رائع جدا واكثر شيئ اعجبني هو اننا حللنا المشكلة ونفذنا الحل كان الكبار يصغون لنا وكل شيئ نقوله يمكن ان يكون صحيحا لا احد يقول هذا خطا كان الكبار يلعبون معنا ومثلنا تخيلنا كيف يمكن استخدام ادوات الزراعة وتعرفنا على اسمائها
اتمنى لو ان صفي بالمدرسة مثل هذا لانه سيكون اروع واجمل من ان نكون جالسين على المقاعدوننظر الى اللوح والمعلمة ستكون اقرب تغني وترقص معنا

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by Nader Wahbeh, Senior Researcher A.M Qattan Foundation

Nader Wahbeh, Senior Researcher A.M Qattan Foundation — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:22:03 +0000

August 2 2010, Reflections
Mantle of the Expert for the first time in Palestine lead by Luke Abbott and Tim Tayler who are working with 35 Palestinian Kindergarten teachers for six continuous days. The first two days were rich and fruitful. I learned about the levels of the dramatic action and representation forms through two exciting stories, the Tiger in India and the Left out Baby. We managed together to build enquiry questions, do drama tasks, and work in imaginative MoE contexts. The second day, we learned about the conventions, which was quite challenging to me and to the rest of the teachers in terms of how to incorporate the expressive, iconic, and symbolic conventions. We worked together on the Hungry Caterpillar through which we applied the forms of representations, how to make children care about something and work as expert to solve a problem. The most interesting thing is that we co-constructed the story from a Palestinian socio-cultural context: A Palestinian farmer wearing the Palestinian Kofyeh dealing with the problem of the hungry caterpillar taking into consideration the environment and the water crises in Palestine. We learned how to plan, to build resources, and to exchange roles. It is interesting that the word resources was for me equipments, tools, films, and other technical materials, but now I added to my conceptual framework new kinds of resources; resources that are made from simple drawings, iconic and symbolic things, and also humans. In this day we also learned how to prepare for meaningful learning experiences with children using signifiers and connecting the context, while identifying the framework or the Point of views. We also worked on Jack and the Beanstalk story where we had to make difficult decisions and decide how to fix Jack’s mothers house with the small amount of money she offered. During this activity, we applied lots of conventions and used different forms of representations. By the end of the second day, we started to prepare for the big event: the “olive tree” as an MoE experience within the Palestinian context. We all are curious and looking forward for tomorrow’s meeting. Are we able to apply what we’ve learned so far? Can we use the conventions as a guide for building resources and planning for the event? Are we ready to open an opportunity for the children to imagine, ask questions, and live the experience? Let’s see…

Comment on Resources and notes for moe training in Palestine, Aug 2010 by Maha Wahdan

Maha Wahdan — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:56:20 +0000

so far the work shop is very interesting and useful for me and my children it hits lots of points in my mind and answered many questions about how to make all children be envolve in learning without being shy or not intrested and it gave me a very solid background to stand on and fight for my believes. it has been a plessure to have this workshop with Luke & Tim

Comment on Study Days for MoE at Grimley and Holt CE Primary School by Eva Bennett

Eva Bennett — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:53:46 +0000

Are you running any more study days in the 2010-2011 school year?