First Day Of Second Week

Monday, July 22^nd. FIRST DAY OF SECOND WEEK

Back to school today. We arrived early and waited for the ministry people and the co-tutors to figure out how we were going to make it work. We decided that George’s lab would keep running and he would have the teachers researching differentiated instruction articles, the second class would be 30 minutes each of three subjects, science, social studies and math, delivered by three people and the third class would be about differentiated instruction led by Wendy. After receiving last night’s e-mail about the change in plans, she found a PowerPoint on the internet.  Irnice, myself and the co-tutors helped out where we were needed. The social studies expert missed the entire first class, and Mavis was a half hour late. It is also interesting how many participants who come in late, walk in and interrupt the class by saying ‘sorry I`m late’ like they are proud of it.

Anyway, it all went fairly smoothly. Mrs. Mohammad, the main ministry person who has caused us the problems and who said she would not be here today, showed up for a bit with a math ministry person to watch their people work.

Wendy and another participant brought in report cards for us to see. They are booklets and contain all the reports, hand written, for all terms and all grades, the student’s whole career.

On the way home we stopped to shop for our Canada Day celebration and then went home to fill out the team report that we have to submit to CTF when we get home. We had a bite to eat and then pooled our Canada gifts and decided who to give them to. That took a long time. I did not realize that we were giving a little something to everyone. If I knew this I would have brought a lot of the same thing rather than an assortment of things. It just makes it harder to divide up and maybe some people will think it is unfair. Oh well, not much we can do at this point. I read, typed and was in bed by ten.