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Monterrey
Workshop: Transforming teaching transforming learning, transforming lives
The Promethean Ambassadors – teacher-researchers, academics and the MirandaNet project team – met in Monterrey, regional capital of Nuevo Leon province, Mexico from March 26 to April 1 for the third international workshop in the international ACTIVboard project funded by Promethean. The first workshop was held in London in January 2005; the second in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2005. Olivia Flores, from the Ministry of Education in Nuevo Leon province in Mexico, is our liaison for the project. She organised a programme for us that started with traditional Mexican dancing, by students from a local school, combined superb accommodation, enjoyable meals and memorable locations, and ended with a day-long conference, where the Ambassadors presented their projects and findings to an audience of teachers, academics and policy makers at Unidad Mederos, the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.
Monterrey
lies in a bowl surrounded by spectacular mountains and is at the edge of the
Chipinque National Park The first part of the workshop was at a lodge in the
park: surrounded by pine trees, looking up to the mountain peaks and down
to the city, whilst above us vultures wheeled in the thermals. We worked for
three days sharing our findings and resources: then we travelled to an even
more breath-taking location in mountain caverns – where, using ACTIVboards,
we prepared a collaborative presentation for the public seminar.
John Eccleston, Group Training Manager of Promethean, provided continuous professional development for all of the participants, who left the workshop with significantly enhanced skills – and Promethean accreditation!
A range of evidence had been collected by the teachers: video clips, flipcharts, pupil work and case studies. All of this was used to create the group presentation at the Autonomous University of Nuevo León on the Friday. Georgia Kalkanis, John Eccleston , Manuel Fernandes, Sylvia Rojas, Christina Preston, Olivia Flores and John Cuthell also presented work. John Eccleston’s expertise ensured that things ran smoothly. The audience were particularly appreciative of the presentations and the evidence presented.
Thanks must go to Olivia Flores, who organised the accommodation and social programme in some spectacular locations, and to Promethean Technologies for supporting and funding the project.
John Potter took a lot of photographs: some can be viewed at www.flickr.com/photos/johnp_p
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