|
 Introduction
Why Eritrea? Project
Project History Curriculum Examples
Press
PROJECT HISTORY
TIMELINE
2001
| Dr. Joyce Blueford, Teclu
Tesfazghi of the Math/Science Nucleus and Yosieph Tekie of
Microsoft Corp visited Eritrea with. 4 staff from the
University of Washington who were investigating liaisons with
the University of Asmara. |
- Met with the Minister of Education to discuss plans.
- Selected a pilot training facility in Asmara
(Teacher Training Institute)..
- Visited with over 50 staff members from Ministry
of Education to discuss their needs.
- Met with about 100 high school teachers to get
their impressions of science, math, and technology in Eritrea.
- Met with about 50 students to see how they responded
to pen computers and graphical presentations.
- Left science equipment and software of current I.
Science MaTe Curriculum
2002
| Dr. Blueford, Doris
Raia, and David Lundeen with the help of Richard Nearing
from Firefly Learning Inc redesigned the materials to run
on the server at the Asmara Teacher Training Institute (ATTI).
|
- Reformat materials to be be used in Eritrea.
- Ship science equipment to Eritrea
- Secure funding for Phase II
- Trial "run-through" of presentations by Trainer with
local Eritrean community
| Teclu Tesfazghi and David Lundeen
visited Asmara to set up the ATTI for training teaching.
Office is set up to house materials. |
- Refinement of materials based on feedback from US trials
- Math/Science Nucleus staff to visit Eritrea to set up
hardware in Eritrea Training Facility if necessary. Provide
support for last minute changes and troubleshoot any problems.
- Evaluation of Facility for future projects.
| Joyce
Blueford and Doris Raia refined the computer
network at ATTI and set up materials for training purposes. |
- Trained 3 people to maintain computer lab at ATTI.
- Used computer lab and newly set up teacher
workroom to train 20 teachers.
- Refined delivery system of Integrating Science,
Math, and Technology Reference Curriculum on Intranet.
- Set up 9 lesson plans to be piloted with the
students at ATTI.
- Developed strategies to help teachers use science
materials.
- Discussed future plans to pilot material in
elementary schools.
- A public event to highlight
achievements of project Challenging
the Children of Eritrea
| Joyce
Blueford and Oscar Rosenbloom develop funding
strategy to help teachers and work out details with the Minister
of Education, Osman Saleh |
- Ali Suleman appointed as National
Coordinator of Eritrea Math, Science, and Technology Project
- Tiiu and Frank Adamek, Canada spend
6 weeks working with Ali to determine which schools will be the
first pilot
- Phaesun (Francis Hillman) and
CTS (Alazar Haile Michael in Asmara are consulted to work with
project.
|