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Sharing Special Skills

A Teacher Training Video Series

Pearls of Africa, Inc. and Marywood University are pairing up to create a series of teacher training videos that will help train teachers and staff who work with children with disabilities.

Due to severe discrimination and a general lack of information, teachers and personnel trained in special education are hard to come by. The teachers and staff who work with children with disabilities in small organization throughout the country generally do not have special education training. In fact many small organizations do not have the luxury of hiring teachers with any extensive training.

Pearls of Africa is now working to provide useful and practical guidance to these teachers and staff. This training program, which will come in the form of a video series, will introduce and explain special education techniques and demonstrate them in real-world situations. Topics will include established techniques and practices used in special education classrooms today.

Marywood University has joined in this goal by providing expertise, facilities and equipment needed to produce this distance learning project. Students from the Special Education and the Communication Arts departments, under the supervision of faculty, volunteer their time by researching, writing and producing the videos.

The first installment of videos has been completed and will soon be on their way to Uganda. There they will be shown to teachers and staff who work with children with disabilities. Participants will then be surveyed to determine the quality, relevance and effectiveness of the lessons.

After this training session, the videos will be available in the Resource Library for viewing by teachers, parents, and other professionals visiting the library.

Based on reviews of evaluation surveys completed by the teachers in Uganda and the Marywood students and faculty, Pearls of Africa leadership hope to continue the video project every semester, creating new installments to the video series.

If you would like more information about this project, please contact us at info@pearlsofafrica.org.

Your support for this project is greatly appreciated!

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