Teachers' Workshops

How can teachers in remote villages in Guatemala foster reading skills when their classrooms have very few books and when many of their students’ parents cannot read? When not a single home has a book, and 6 children in a one-room school house will share a tattered textbook and have no access to fiction or picture books? Casa Colibrí developed a teachers’ workshop to address these challenges. With the collaboration of the local education authorities, we invited 90 “K-6” teachers from the villages surrounding the Casa Colibrí Clinic to attend one of three workshops held in May 2015. To say they loved their first exposure to “Professional Development” is a vast understatement! Each learned new skills and techniques aimed at fostering a love of reading. And each went home with a lending library of children’s books for their little schools. The one stipulation? Students MUST be allowed to check out these precious books to take home

Primary-school educators learn about anchor charts and have a contest to see who can make the best one. This little student contributes her ideas, too!