DIL News 2008 - Summer

Teachers Embrace DIL’s New Curriculum

In nearly a year since the introduction of the English curriculum to DIL schools, the results have been overwhelmingly positive. From the beginning, the teachers have worked diligently to learn the strategies outlined in the new teacher’s guides and to incorporate a variety of new resources into their classroom routines. We have been fortunate to see the improvements not only in the children, but also in the teacher’s own level of competency in the span of less than a year. For many teachers, even in the US, introduction of new curricula is often not well received because it requires a change in the way they have taught a specific subject. Not only has this not been the case with our teachers, but we have been given detailed feedback and suggestions from the teachers throughout the year for how to make the program better—an indication of how closely they are following the program and how committed they are to its success.

The monthly assessments submitted by each project have shown steady improvements for all schools and has allowed us to monitor and support the teachers throughout this transition. The teachers are incredibly eager to improve their own skills and understand that in order to be effective they, too, must master every topic, even if that means relearning lessons they had previously learned incorrectly. We look forward with confidence to continue developing new educational programs for our schools knowing that DIL’s teachers have the motivation and desire to be the best teachers possible.

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