This month CAST is pleased to have extended our MOU with UNRWA and are proud to be continuing our partnership with them. This week we will be taking a team of artists to work with a group of teachers from the Tyre area in South Lebanon to run a course in Creative Teaching, thanks to generous support by the Yusef Islam Foundation .
Creative Teaching Update :
Our course was an overwhelming success… we originally planned for 25 teachers from the camps and gatherings in the South, and ended up with 42! Everyone returned for each day , despite terrible weather and it was an exciting and inspiring time for both the teachers and the workshop leaders.
Here’s what some of the teachers on the last course had to say:
“… it helps us feel that we are all talented and I have more self confidence.” ” I learnt about teaching students through exciting methods” ” I will be using most of the techniques because I liked them and they can be applied in our schools” “I was expecting drama, or a theatre course but it was far more than that”Click Here to view the finished film from our time in Lebanon showing the teachers, artists and the chief UNRWA area officer of the Tyre region.
We still need help raising funds for the youth project in Lebanon – we hope to hold the course in the Tyre area again, this time with the help of the teachers we have just worked with. Help us to continue helping these students and their teachers.
Photo – Jonathan Brady