Project Overseas marks 39th year in Grenada
GRENADIAN TEACHERS RECEIVE VALUABLE INSTRUCTION AND TRAINING TO FURTHER THEIR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
This year, Project Overseas (PO) celebrated its 50th anniversary. Since 1973, PO has worked in Grenada in the areas of organizational and professional development, leadership training and fellowships, and inservice training.
For 2012, the Grenada Union of Teachers (GUT) identified the need to develop teacher professional growth in the six following areas: numeracy, literacy, special education, computers, visual arts and crafts, and leadership and management.
Leadership and management were my areas of instruction. I focused on the theme “leading for learning” — building highly effective schools through collaboration and developing schoolwide best practices in instruction and assessment. Elementary and secondary school principals presented their leadership portfolios and provided evidence of their learning in leadership, instruction and assessment.
In total, 150 Grenadian teachers received 10 days of PD. In addition to instruction in the six content areas, team members offered instruction across all courses in multiple intelligences, classroom management, differentiated instruction, experiential learning, teaching strategies, education technology (application of Smart technology, if appropriate), Bloom’s Taxonomy, assessment, gender equity in the classroom and profession, and HIV/AIDS education.
In addition to workshops and instruction, Karan Spoelder, team member from the Northwest Territories, raised $3,800 to purchase local school supplies, such as laminators for each region, art supplies and books for each school.