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P A G E 2
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Teacher Trainings Back on Track
Continued
Symrise Vanilla/GIZ
, whom we are very pleased to
welcome as a collaborator in the realm of
environmental education in the SAVA region. The
Easter training was the most ambitious to date, with
200 teachers participating, along with 33 other CISCO
trainees. As in the past, the trainings were led by
Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group (MFG) training
specialists, Mr. André Ratsimbazafy, and Mr. Gimod.
The next training will take place during the main school
vacation period, in August.
As a reminder, the first SAVA Conservation activity
was actually teacher trainings in environmental
education, which began in August of 2011. At that
time, the first trainings were not yet with teachers but
with Chef ZAPs (education administrators who
supervise the school directors). The trainings are a
collaboration with the CISCOs of Sambava and Andapa
and are a transfer of the teacher training program as
used by the MFG for 15+ years in the Tamatave region.
Experienced MFG teacher trainers were brought in to
conduct the teacher trainings, and eventually to train
trainers for the SAVA region. The weeklong trainings
familiarize the teachers with use of a 64-page teacher’s
guide which was developed by MFG educators, and has
been authorized by the Madagascar Ministry of
Education. The guide integrates environmental
education into the existing curriculum at the primary
school level.
In the first step of the cascade-type training, 325
SAVA region school directors and school district
personnel have been trained in three separate training
events. Now that all of the school directors of the two
school districts have completed the training, we have
begun the actual training of the teachers, which the
directors participate in and reinforce.
School district officials on the left and right. Middle three, from
left — Ms. Mamy Rajaonarisoa, Symrise/GIZ representative, Mr.
Gimod and Mr. Andr
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Ratsimbazafy, both MFG teacher trainers.