It has been ten years since we held a professional development seminar for the teachers of Calhoun Spady. They ask constantly for further training, because they realize the importance of professional development. It's essential that our teachers receive training because they are not generally graduates of schools which teach the pedagogy of education: what they know they learned on their own, and quite frankly it's not always what's best for our students.
While we realize the importance of professional development, we don't have the means to offer it. The last seminar that we offered was in August, 1997: after ten years, we consider it an obligation to organize another session in July, 2007, for 50 teachers in our school. But we need help to fund this important mission.
Importance of the training:
Each teacher is a leader of his or her class: in addition to the curriculum, each teacher must work hard to transmit good values and moral instruction to the children. Our responsibility is to help create the future leaders of Haiti. We want to impart to our teachers this sense of this important mission for our country. We want to inspire our teachers to model behaviors that will serve the interests of our nation, at the same time as they teach the curriculum. Our teachers often lack skills in important areas like discipline, exam monitoring, lecture preparation, etc.: we need to help them with these essentials.
Our needs for the training:
| Transportation | $240 |
| Food for one week | $150 |
| Teaching | $1000 |
| Subtotal | $1390 |
| Teaching (for two weeks) | $1000 |
| Practice in Social Science | $150 |
| Practice in Experimental Sciences | $150 |
| Practice in Creole | $150 |
| Practice in French | $150 |
| Practice in Math | $200 |
| Subtotal | $800 |
The training will be done in two weeks 8:30 in the morning to 3:00 in the afternoon. We will give lunch in the morning at ten and dinner in the afternoon at 1:30.We will have 50 teacher participants, and require $3 for foods for each teacher each day. $3x50 = $150 per day, for ten days.
| Food for Participants | $1500 |
| Outside Experts | $1390 |
| Teacher trainers from Ranquitte | $1000 |
| Practicum Assistants | $ 800 |
| Food | $1500 |
| Grand Total | $4690 |
We pray that God will give us friends who can help with this, because it's very important for the school. We will be delighted with financing of any part of the training, by any one. Thank you so much to any one who finds it in their heart to help the school in this way.
Yours sincerely,
Mesidor Ilsaint, MA
Principal of the Calhoun Spady Missionary School
Christian Flights International (http://christianflights.org/)
Ranquitte, Haiti.