Some more insigths

People from TEA program that I haven yet talked about:

Partho and Sarmin from Bangladesh
Pharto is founding teacher in his schools and he is a science teacher. His interest is about water pollution, social issues and economics in rural areas.

Sharmin is a free and happy spirit that teaches English language with a smile and good mood. She has a lot of nice colorful dresses also.

Charo from Bolivia.
Charo is well educated and active English teacher that makes a lot of interesting projects with students eg. writing exercise to make a magazine. She also collects US 25 cents coins (different ones) so if you have any then let her know.

Mary from Costa Rica, the most beautiful country in the wold. She is a hard working women that have opened her hart also towards technology. Shes favorite ideas is to enjoy life as much you can and favorite signature expression is HM!

Serge Pre is from exotic Cote d´lvoire. He teaches in a big classroom (90 students) and has a lot of ideas how to share equity and responsibilities in the world. He has a nice warm and sincere personality and asks you to visit Africa and see yourself the animals and nature and people. He is the one that holds a cord ball.

 Claudia is from Honduras. She likes to go to movies and help others to achieve goals when she has the knowledge to help. She works hard and much and she has also visited Japan. She is the one who is smiling in the back left corner and holding the strings of team trust.

Girls from India - Manjula and Lakshmi. Manjula likes shopping and is passionate of her culture. Lakshmi likes to preform and present her ideas in the same way.  They are both science major and understand it well!

Gulnar from Kazakhstan is the most experienced educator here. She loves her country and being a teacher. She has a quit sharp humor and knows a lot of Russian songs that she sings with her nice voice.

Elena is from Russia and she has a healthy views of how students should be educated and behaved in schools. She likes to be on task and has good computer skills. She also likes a lot American teaching books as they make teachers life mutch more easier.

Svitlana is from Ukraine and she has a experiences of teaching in several countries eg. Poland and now US;) She has won award like teacher of the year and her students are very well educated and usually also participate and win lot of awards.

Mister Panama eg. Gregorio and miss Venezuela eg. Miriam are young and happy teachers - life science meet computers. Grego is nice dzentelmen that after this program will change a lot of things in his school. Miriam is a computer teacher that is so skillful that she has done this job 5 years without the computers. Imagine that!

Maria Julia from Peru states that in Peru there is more than pyramids. She is science teachers and shops a lot (Is I have heard), so little gossip.. She loves TEA program and science classes with innovative methods like 5E and more. She works well in group. You find her siting in a right down corner.

Yefer is from Venezuala and he is also outspoken and smart man who I think has bought half the Amazon. He presents his ideas clearly and very interestingly works in German school. He also knows math!

Insights: Laxman Sharma from Nepal

You know famous Nepal people, but you don't know they came from Nepal - Buddha, Tenzzing Sherpa other Sherpas and now Laxman the most educated and well appreciated teacher.

Life motto: I want to change the world educating children!

He worries a lot of about climate change and science.Children should know all of that as they are the ones that Change the world. Laxman can speak 5 languages: english, nepali, hindi, japan, newari (local). Laxman has worked as teacher 22 years in remote area where there are lot of mountains. As you know Nepal holds a records in 8 out of 10 highest mountains in the world. He has also traveled to the up to the base camp in Mount Everest known as Dzomolungma.Population is 27 M in 15 M square Km area.Kathmandu is the capital city which resides a population nearly 3 M.  

In his lifetime he has visited six different countries and plans to visit 12 more. The best time he had in South Korea when you look it in a educational perspective because of product orientation in that line and quality.
And USA because of being child friendly perspectives.

Nepal has more than 90% students admitted in the basic level. Average no of students is 42 in the level. Students are found to be happy in language classes and mathematics. Average school time is six hours and 6 days a week. Girls participation in the classroom sounds very good. Basic education is free to all including text books, scholarships, food for some schools etc. Nepal has nine universities running and some more than a dozen in waiting.

    

Insights: Erica van Lindgen

Erica is English African teacher form South-Africa. She teaches great 10-12.

Motto: You can only have peace with others when you have peace with in your self. And you can only have peace with yourself when you have peace with god.

She is the blond one.


She has 4 dogs and 2 cats and she lives in a rectory.
She is also a pastoral psychiatrist. She works with people with stress, children with learning disabilities.

Funny fact: Beertjie Africans that sounds like Birgy and it is small teddy bear.

She lives between Cape Town and Johannesburg in the middle. South Africa is sub-dessert but it has many nice animals like rhino, tigers, lions, spring buck and donkeys.

Insights: Mohammed Moustafa from Egypt

He is a English teacher @ high school students and he has done it 12 years.

Motto: Shoot for the moon and if you did not get it, you would put yourself among bright stars.

He is very interested about dealing with different students. He is learning a lot in TEA program about ICT, so the knowledge is rising a lot. He also had a nice project with students when they did a English language magazine about shool life.  



If you want to read more: http://mrmohammedtea.blogspot.com/

He is very into sharing information about Egypt, so there are some pictures

Insights: Salam Saleh from Jordan

She is an English teacher for 6. and 7. grades in an UNRWA school and she has done it for 12 years. She also teaches art classes if needed. 

She’s motto: Hitch your wagon up to a star

Salam-s best achievement is supervising human rights activities and was chosen twice as one of the top 5 teachers in the area. She has found in the TEA program very interesting and liberating and the best so far has been in technology sense how to blog. Here biggest challenge is how to cope with using different devices with different formats as there is so many to choose. 

Her dream is that technology is used to build mutual understanding among people. In the end she is inviting all people to come visit the amazing city of Petra/Jordan....one of the Seven Wonders of the World. 

To find out more visit her school FB: https://www.facebook.com/amir.hassan.prep.g.s.n1

Insights: Savilla Banister, USA

She is a professor of classroom Technologies and has done it for 12 years. Before that, she was a music teacher for K-12. Listing best achievements she is very proud of her family - children and grandchildren, in educational sense she also points out that she has published many research articles and now direct the Center of Excellence for 21st Century Educator Preparation.

Life motto: It's all about the learning!

Savilla is exited about working creative and motivated teachers. Also she is now involved with Digital Texts Learning Community, BYOD project with BGSU students and camera deployment in k-12 schools. But sometimes the technology also gives us challenges like how to use it in that way that everyone feels like they are involved and have an access. Her hope is that someday all people will have connection to internet and it gives better chance to them to be a part of the curriculum. Learning is changing and it is in this way to everybody, so the best is to learn it together. 

Past year learning achievements she talks about syncing all her information from all devices to the cloud...learned by experimentation... and all went OK!

So you can do it too!

Others say:

• she has a uplifting energy and she can keep up with everything
• Whaaaat!
• she is very professional and knows a lot about new technologies, at the same time she doesn't forget to have fun 

Need more: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/edhd/directory/stl/page57435.html