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Honduras Reading Activity - Empowering Teachers and Directors to Create Nurturing Classrooms

Thu, March 26, 8:15 to 9:45am EDT (8:15 to 9:45am EDT), Hyatt Regency Miami, Floor: 3rd, Foster II

Proposal

The Honduras Reading Project trains teachers in effective evidence-based reading instruction, develops revised and improved curriculum and learning materials for grades 1-6, and supports community involvement to improve reading achievement in students in grades 1-6.
Teachers are key to creating nurturing classrooms that encourage and support learning, but in Honduras, as in many other countries, the teaching profession is undervalued, wages are low and schools operate in a context of high poverty, public insecurity, and social instability.
Teachers in Honduras face challenges in creating a nurturing classroom for learning, from professional challenges related to changing attitudes in teaching and implementing a new methodology and learning materials. Furthermore, they work in an institutional culture historically more focused on hierarchy and supervision than on coaching and peer support. They also face violence and insecurity in their own lives and the lives of their students and school community.
The presenter will discuss how HRA strengthens teachers’ ability to create nurturing classrooms. HRA, working through the MOE, is implementing an intensive teacher coaching at the classroom level. The panelist will discuss how this process was developed, socialized and adapted based on experience to date, as well as what coaches and teachers have reported about the experience and its positive effect in their work. Additionally, HRA is also working with Master Trainers and teachers in a small pilot to build teacher resiliency and coping skills, and the panelist will present progress and findings to date from this experience.

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