From Rubber Bullets to Rubrics of the Atom - an adventure teaching in Africa
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It was in March 1982. I was placed in Shire Secondary School, a Grade
9-12 School, in a remote village known as Endaselassie, to teach
physics and chemistry respectively. The village was in a region
called Tigrai, in Northern Ethiopia. The country was under military
rule.
Our first few days were very frightening as we were not used to
hearing frequent gun shots throughout the day. In fact gunshots
sounded louder than the school bell. Although the village lacked
basic amenities such as clean drinking water, food and sanitation
facilities, people were very friendly and hospitable.
Lack of teaching resources in the school came as a blessing in
disguise to teachers like me, as the situation gave chance to innovate
our own curriculum and methods of teaching...
Read the rest at http://teachers.net/gazette/wordpress/pr-guruprasad/using-models-in-teaching-physics/
From Rubber Bullets to Rubrics of the Atom: Using Models in Teaching
Physics - an interesting article in the just-released June issue of
Teachers.Net Gazette.
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