burning questions, like bushmeat

9/30/2002: EE Working Group

Newsletter Topics/Features:
-Green skills
-Personal experience
-EE announcements/committee
-EE in the field (or "in action")
-Province ecology
-Trivia/factoids
-PCV interviews
-"In the street"
-In the news

...EE meeting was a little less than organized today. started late. without Wendy, unfortunately. so our agro and educ APCDs took the reins. not much help. on our part, we [PCVs] were just jabbing away. PCV talk. Green PC Cameroon, Green PCVs, etc. the list above is from one of the final topics we discussed, the newsletter. we'll crank it out by Wed, insha'Allah.

Tara and i are doing the "in the street" piece. ask a handful of people about a burning question, like bushmeat. i think we'll do that. our APCD made us laugh/wonder with a comment or two about eating and transporting bushmeat. whether people thought it was legal or not. we'll ask the PC drivers, cameroonian and expat admin staff, etc. should be good.

at the Hilton with mama. picked up right where we left off. like she was here only yesterday. i'll be off to Omnisport [the PC office and volunteer house neighborhood in Yaoundé, named after the nearby stadium] in the AM. mama, too – maybe. she'll meet the CD in the morning or après-midi. depending on what she'll have plans for the rest of the day.

learning styles...

5/28/2002: TOT Day 1

Learning Styles

i prefer to learn by doing, thinking through concepts and trying things out myself. so that makes me a...

• type 4: common sense learner
  
• type 1: imaginative learner
  
• type 2: analytical learner
  
• type 3: dynamic learner
  

Catering to different learners...

1. imaginative – drawing/music/poetry
2. analytical – theory... the rules or grammar
3. dynamic – talking, work and/or movement
4. common sense – examples and real life application

...so people process in different ways and someone drawing or talking to themselves may be actively learning in their own style:

• students learn in their own style 25%
• schools validate the way type 2s learn
• ~70% of learners are not type 2

Four styles can correlate to 4 stages of a lesson:

1. motivation (imaginative): who are my students?
2. information (analytic): what am i going to teach?
3. practice (common sense): how am i going to teach?
4. application (dynamic): have i reached my goals?

...therefore, if lesson plans incorporate these 4 stages you will (more or less) cater to the 4 styles of learning.

Teaching is...
-art... style
-science... methodology
-skill... must be done

now... how do we introduce learning styles to PCTs? and how do we apply it in training the PCTs?