Thursday 10th October 2019

This was such an enjoyable day. I was running a Team Building Training Day today with Rachelle. I led the morning session, where I got the teachers to work in two teams, with a mix of Experienced Teachers and Trainee Teachers in each team. The Trainee Teachers had to deliver a 25-minute lesson, using a set of Science books I have brought from the UK for them. The Experienced Teachers’ role was to support the Trainee Teachers in the planning phase of the task and then do a lesson observation of them as they were delivering the lesson. 

In the afternoon, Rachelle led some fun team-building activities, with my favourite one being the ‘Protect the Egg Challenge’, where they were divided into teams and each team was given an egg and some straw, some sheets of newspaper and some tape. They used these basic materials to find some way of protecting the egg, which was dropped from a height of about 10 feet. There were four teams and two of the teams’ eggs broke, whilst the other two teams were successful in protecting their egg. They decided to have a play-off, where two members of each team threw and caught their eggs from an increasingly widening distance. Both teams did very well and were throwing and catching their eggs from further and further apart, until Roshani tried to catch the egg above her head and it smashed, leaving her covered with raw egg! Of course, all the other teachers thought this was hilarious!

All the photographs today were taken from the Training Day.













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