Teacher Training Workshop

Group 120 planned, organized and executed a teacher training workshop for 200 Thai teachers of English.


Brainstorming produces lots of ideas. Here we are capturing them on a large piece of paper.


Planning a workshop can be serious business. Can you tell?


Here is one of our most cheerful volunteers. We think she was born with a smile on her face -- and a sweet disposition to go with it.


This smile proves that planning a workshop can be an enjoyable experience!



In this photo you can see great minds at work. The two ladies had an idea of how to best illustrate to the teachers the in's and out's of playing the Hokey Pokey.


Would you believe this is a proposed teaching aid to illustrate how to play the Hokey Pokey.




The day has arrived and we are ready! This photo is from the start of the workshop. As you would expect - all involved had a great time.


Oh look, June has her camera out again - let's give her a big smile! They did and I caught it.


Here is one of our Masters of Ceremonies reminding us of our schedules and details. She, and the other Masters, did a great job.


We tried to give the English teachers ideas of new and fun ways to introduce vocabulary to their students. Here the idea is for participants to create a formation that represents the word in English that has been called out. These teachers are modeling "traffic light". Can you tell? Each formation requires a different number of people. This one takes three.


This formation is the result of calling out "flower". This one takes five people. The people on the outside, there are four, are the petals and the one in the center is the stamen/pistle.


Intersection is the name of this formation and it takes four people. Anyone who cannot be in the called out formation is then eliminated from the game.


Here is another one of our Masters of Ceremonies. She is explaining another game that teaches the names of fruits. It is somewhat similar to musical chairs but without the music. To help in the explanation our leader drew pictures of the fruits. You can see the apple she is holding. When the name of a fruit or a group of fruits is called out each person that is the fruit must change chairs.