Teacher Training Starts

What a busy day at Ban Chamkho School! Apart from opening the Art Competition, as blogged by Meg, we had our first group of teachers come in from other schools for some informal training.

All three teachers teach Prathom (primary) 1, so we spent most of the day with P1 students.

Here we are as the day begins. The students are in their teams, but they don't have "uniforms" on yet. From left to right, that's Khru Tan (seated) from Ban Tha Lambit School, Khru Philaiwan and Khru Lek, regular P1 teachers from Ban Chamkho, Khru Dam from Ban Song Salueng School, and Khru Ten from Ban Nongtakrao School.







"1, 2, 3 go!" and the students are getting themselves set up for Phonics Lucky Dip.














Here I am, putting the #2s from each team through their paces.






In the afternoon, it was time for "Team Coaching", where team captains become the teachers. Here's Khru Tan helping the Blue Captain to coach her team on consonant-vowel blends.

What a luxury! 3 teachers between just 14 students. Homework for tonight is to think through how to run this by yourself when you have a class of 40 students. Still, that's what Team English is all about.