We arrived in Bushenyi for the Teacher Training Workshop!
After a 7 hour drive from Entebbe, we arrived at a community centre in Bushenyi District to set up the hall for the arrival and welcome of the teachers. Each day was packed full of information, videos, sharing opportunities and much, much more!
This is the group of 22 teachers who travelled from 5 minutes away to up to two hours away to attend the Jane Goodall Environmental Education Teacher Training Workshop. All of the teachers taught between Primary 5 to Primary 7 (equivalent to our grade 5 to 7), however, there subject of expertise varied. There were teachers who taught English, Agriculture, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science. By the end of the workshop, the goal was to share resources with the teachers and to work together to develop lesson plans where Environmental Education could be integrated in to any of their subject areas. In doing so, we also led sessions on teaching strategies that would be useful in teaching Environmental Education as well as their specific subject areas.
Tracy, from the JGI office in Uganda led all of the sessions about how the books were developed and the connection to the curriculum set by the Ministry of Education in Uganda.
Over the 4 day workshop, Alie led session on the importance of Environmental Education. Alie and Emma led a discussion on the use of Multiple Intelligence theory as a teaching strategy and how it can be used to reach all types of learners. Meg led a session on cooperative learning as well as how to facilitate a teacher training workshop to share what they have learn with their peers when they return to their schools. Alie led a session on experiential education and demonstrated through a hands on activity - "How to dress a bug?". Emma facilitated a session where the teachers took everything they had learned throughout the workshop and designed a lesson plan in their specific teaching areas - the goal was two-fold - to use a variety of teaching methods and to integrate environmental education. There will be a more in depth blog on each of these sessions.
On the third day, we all loaded in to matatus and travelled to the Kalinzu Forest Centre for a forest walk and overview of their education program for students. The forest centre staff have been trained by the Disney Foundation, in partnership with the JGI Institute to help deliver conservation education to their visitors.
After a 7 hour drive from Entebbe, we arrived at a community centre in Bushenyi District to set up the hall for the arrival and welcome of the teachers. Each day was packed full of information, videos, sharing opportunities and much, much more! 
This is the group of 22 teachers who travelled from 5 minutes away to up to two hours away to attend the Jane Goodall Environmental Education Teacher Training Workshop. All of the teachers taught between Primary 5 to Primary 7 (equivalent to our grade 5 to 7), however, there subject of expertise varied. There were teachers who taught English, Agriculture, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science. By the end of the workshop, the goal was to share resources with the teachers and to work together to develop lesson plans where Environmental Education could be integrated in to any of their subject areas. In doing so, we also led sessions on teaching strategies that would be useful in teaching Environmental Education as well as their specific subject areas.Each teacher received a teachers guide and set of teaching posters filled with "ready-to-use" lesson plans to integrate Environmental Education in to each of their subject areas. This teacher guide was developed by the Jane Goodall Institute in Uganda - to match the expectations set out by the Ugandan Ministry of Education.
Tracy, from the JGI office in Uganda led all of the sessions about how the books were developed and the connection to the curriculum set by the Ministry of Education in Uganda.
Over the 4 day workshop, Alie led session on the importance of Environmental Education. Alie and Emma led a discussion on the use of Multiple Intelligence theory as a teaching strategy and how it can be used to reach all types of learners. Meg led a session on cooperative learning as well as how to facilitate a teacher training workshop to share what they have learn with their peers when they return to their schools. Alie led a session on experiential education and demonstrated through a hands on activity - "How to dress a bug?". Emma facilitated a session where the teachers took everything they had learned throughout the workshop and designed a lesson plan in their specific teaching areas - the goal was two-fold - to use a variety of teaching methods and to integrate environmental education. There will be a more in depth blog on each of these sessions.On the third day, we all loaded in to matatus and travelled to the Kalinzu Forest Centre for a forest walk and overview of their education program for students. The forest centre staff have been trained by the Disney Foundation, in partnership with the JGI Institute to help deliver conservation education to their visitors.
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