Category Archives: Teacher training

My primary goal for my second year of service training primary-level English teachers in curriculum and pedagogy.

What I did

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 11, 2004
Somehow we came up with idea over dinner. I had just arrived in Birtamod, Jhapa, to visit Andrew one last time before our lives as PCVs. I was going to stay for a night, maybe two, before heading back to Birganj. Anyhow, we were having dinner, and Andrew was talking about the school visits he would be making the next day: a short in-and-out trip to invite two English teachers to an upcoming training.
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Closing ceremonies

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 1, 2004
I was in Birtamod just after the Thanksgiving trip to Kolkata. I was having lunch with two guys from the Peace Corps office in Washington, DC. They were security. On guy told me that he had been doing, well, military intelligence in Somalia for a several years before retiring and coming to work for the Peace Corps. He told me that when Peace Corps has had to evacuate its volunteers from a country, it's usually because of families calling the office. Or a senator.
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Finishing touches

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jan 23, 2004
During training, one of the hardest and seemingly most necessary things I wanted to communicate to my host family was that I missed home. I missed home. I missed my friends. I missed pizza and beer as dark as the nights in my new, lightless neighborhood. But the best that I could do, after two months of Peace Corps' astounding language training, was to tell them, Ma yad garchhu, I remember.
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Still learning

By Scott Wallick | Published: Dec 8, 2003
Things should be simpler. If people can travel to another hemisphere, learn a somewhat obscure second language, eat with their hands, and grow comfortable with the sounds of bombs and gunfire, then surely organizing and executing a basic teacher training with motivated teachers in a scenic location shouldn't be a problem.
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Small world after all

By Scott Wallick | Published: May 24, 2003
For the past two weeks I've started becoming rather familiar with the underground world of primary schools in Birganj. So far it's been a tour of the bizarre. I'm not seeing things through a cracked looking-glass, but through one that's so old the glass is beginning to run.
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