The second project is in realization!

Today is a 5 day of training that starts from 9.00 to 15.30!
Who are the learners?
Among of participants we have 18 teachers from Osh city and Khorogh (Tajikistan), plus one facilitator from Khorogh who is also a participant at the course. There are 4 men and 15 women with different years of working experience from 5 years to 50 years. The language of our discussions is Russian, but participants have to use English words that appear in mail, in Google, and so on. Two of them teach physics and others biology and chemistry. Seven of them do not have any experience with computer and Internet and have never used it. One teacher does not have computers at school and seven teachers do not have access to Internet at school at all. Four teachers in this group have good experience with computer and Internet and use it in their teaching practice. Eleven teachers have heard about the new ways of teaching and tried to practice them in their teaching experience, seven teachers do not have ideas about the student-centered approaches in teaching. One of our participants is a teacher of physics who also teach ICT. Thus, he is a technician person and a participant of the course in one time. As you see the group has different abilities in using technology, but all of them are science teachers who consider the new concepts of teaching with motivation, based on the Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence theory and Bloom’s taxonomy in designing the lesson plan. Teachers consider the question of using ICT at the lessons and have a chance to practice it during the first phase of professional development in ten day’s training.

What is the setting?
We organize training in computer lab with 25 computers with access to low-speed Internet (Ha!). Demonstration of the steps in practice work with computer I can organize by Projector with white screen board or through Net Open program by using my computer with demonstration on all computers for participants. It’s very hot in the room and we have already a conditioner and cooler with water (That is great!). In the school cafeteria we can provide for our participants coffee-break and a lunch. We are planning to work in the future day in Learning Resource Center with the resources that we have for teachers (books, CDs, DVDs, magazines and so on).

What are the course goals?

To create and facilitate a continuous improvement process that ensures excellence in teaching and learning science so that will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and competencies in their teaching practice.
It has the following specific objectives:
Having Professional Development training, participants will be able to make inputs in re-shaping teaching experience with reconsideration of syllabus by technology use.
• To enhance the PPs pedagogical and content knowledge.
• To help the PPs develop greater confidence and competence in using the newly learnt strategies in the classroom.
• To encourage the program participants (PPs) to reflect and share ideas and experience upon their current classroom beliefs and practices about teaching and learning of science:
• To expose the PPs use of ICT( Internet, CDs, use of web resources, data bases, and computer software) for classroom teaching, as well as for their own learning as teachers.
• To encourage the program participants (PPs) to work closely with other PPs to develop skills and attitudes to work collaboratively with their peers for their further professional growth

What have we done for this period of time?
All of the information about the course and photos with participants you can find on the site http://netki11.wordpress.com . Please, welcome to the site and leave your comments there! The information there is on English and Russian. As you find from the information at web-site, as the result of 5 days’ work participants of the course we could create e-mail account (we did it during a day, can you imagine?!, because the system worked not so well and low-speed Internet didn’t allow to us to work fast). Many of them didn’t try to use e-mail before and still in confusion with writing letters to each other in a group. At the next step, participants created account in wikispaces.com on discussion platform where we have discussion each day (For some participants this is a huge progress to write one sentence, for another is “OK” to write a half of the page-as they differ by their abilities to work with computer). Many of them have learned in two days how to type on computer and what does it mean “Enter”.
We did more: participants could create and open account in Delicious page ( for example: http://www.delicious.com/venera4 ; http://www.delicious.com/ruslan.raimbekov75; http://www.delicious.com/tania11) and after all of these activities some of participants felt that they mixed all of their “pages with usernames and passwords). Thus, today we practiced again and tried to identify what is the difference between them, what are their goals, and how they can get access by “sign in” function. Tomorrow we will have “Exam” (with practical work) and participants after the training today worked individually and in pairs (with my help) to have more practice with Internet access and to pass exam well.
Additionally, we discussed ABCD model for learning objectives and applied it to the lesson plan; news of science and technology and how teachers share with this information and include their students in work with new information through different resources; practicing science skills through experiment with motivation to learn the topic; lesson plan through Bloom’s taxonomy prism; Gardner’s MI theory and how teachers implement it in their teaching practice.
I am going to present information and show how participants can create an account in reflective blog and write posts there. For sure, many of them do not have any ideas about blogging and the meaning of it, nonetheless, during our practice I demonstrate web-site everyday where participants can see their photos and information about the course. Only five participants wish to learn how to work there with deep understanding the value of this for their teaching practice. Will try to explain, but feel myself exhausting...