Minds of Ethiopia: Thinking Schools and Leadership Professional Development
Video Clips, Still Photographs, Slide Shows
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Hossana, Ethiopia
24-28 August 2009; 17-23 January 2010
Demonstration Lesson with Students - Hossana, Ethiopia
17-23 January 2010
Hossana, Ethiopia
Video clip of Student demonstration lesson in Hossana including community; think-pair-share; think-quartet-share; Thinking Maps; student reflections. The demonstration lesson was part of the two day professional development with teachers, administrators, and local government representatives. The sessions were held at Children's Home Academy in Hossana.
Click here to watch the Demonstration Lesson with Students video clip.
Frame of Reference - Leadership Session - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Video clip from Leadership session developing personal frames of reference to understand different perspectives within organizations and collaborations. This video was part of the full day professional development session for NGO and school leaders that included use of visual tools, inquiry and community exercises to build a cohesive organization with a focus on problem solving.
Click here to watch the Leadership Frame of Reference video clip.
Participant Reflections
Participant reflections include the principal of the hosting school (Children's Home Academy), UNESCO program director, and various participants from the workshop held from the 24-28 August 2009. Written reflections are also online.
"I would like to see this continue in some form...this was a complete success...to have on an ongoing basis...for public school teachers...that would assist the whole education system in the country because this was a workshop about changing minds...acquiring a new set of beliefs about what education is all about..." Awol Endris, UNESCO
Watch and read the participant reflections:
Interview with Ethiopia Ministry of Education Experts
May 2010
“This thinking process is a day to day activity with each individual [in all classrooms]. When applied in a government school, the people that come from different backgrounds will learn more. This training is very important to be practiced at all levels in government schools
across the grades and all subjects. I suggest it is better to select a model school in different regions. In time these techniques will duplicate to all schools in the country.”
Tilahun Teshome - Ministry of Education
Special Needs Programme in Ethiopia Expert
Daniel Abebe - Ministry of Education
Curriculum Designer
tilahuneteshome@yahoo.com • +251-911-141225
abebemeratedaniel@yahoo.co.uk • +251-911-141225
Click here to watch the Interview with Ethiopia Ministry of Education Experts video clip.
Community Building Exercises
Community building exercises were part of each day of the five day workshop in August 2009. Each day started with introducing and doing new community building exercises with the whole group. Then we divided into several smaller groups to practice the exercises. The community building exercises were both for the participants in the professional development and for the participants to use as teachers in the classroom. There are two video clips:
Hope for Hossana
Hope for Hossana is a video production from Children's Home Society and Family Services Ethiopia (CHSFS-Ethiopia) sharing an understanding of the Hossana region of Ethiopia. This includes the CHSFS-Ethiopia project of sponsoring a quality school education for children in the Hossana region.
More information on CHSFS-Ethiopia is on their website at www.chsfsethiopia.org.
Click here to watch the Hope for Hossana video clip.
Visual Tools: Thinking Maps
A slide show of participants using different visual tools — Thinking Maps for organizing their thinking, collaborative problem solving and deepening understanding of each other including their respective frames of reference.
Click here to watch the Visual Tools slide show.
More in information on Thinking Maps:
Still Pictures
Still pictures from the five day workshops are online.
