Transformational Teaching to Train Leaders of Integrity in Developing Countries

The purpose of this project is to create a teacher training curriculum to develop teachers in primary and secondary education in developing countries. Since very little training in education and pedagogy are available to many teachers throughout the developing world, this project is designed as an introductory level course in best practices for teaching. It incorporates many multisensory approaches in the delivery of the training, so teachers can actually experience what is being described – the difference that can be achieved through active participation in whole-brain learning. The entire curriculum integrates character development, based on the Golden Rule, since teaching the brain without also teaching the heart can lead to negative results.
The training involves a menu of PowerPoint-accompanied Learning Tasks, which address the most high-priority topics for teachers to implement. Each Learning Task is a one-hour lesson about a discreet topic. All lessons incorporate strategies to integrate new knowledge and apply it immediately into the teachers’ practice in their own contexts. The procedures are designed to move participants through ever-more-complex stages of critical and creative thinking in order to achieve practical outcomes and to teach them how to do the same for their students.
My intention for this project is to improve the quality of education, to offer hope and ability to overcome some of the devastating consequences of poverty. I offer it to make available the possibility for marginalized children and their families to see a glimpse of the shalom that God intends His people to provide, on earth as it is in heaven.