Over the last one hundred and thirty days since the change in management a lot of good things have occurred. We are able to welcome on board teams from The Gambia, Cameroon, Togo and soon Botswana, Angola, Madagascar, Rwanda and Gabon.

The March Learning Circles ended with 76% successful participation in terms of time and quality of content produced by learners. Two thousand eight hundred and thirty – five (2,835) learners and teachers from 23 countries took part in seventeen (17) English and French Learning Circles.

The Understanding Diversity activity for 2020/2020 is near conclusion with most pairs having submitted their exhibitions which are available online at www.globalteenager.org/virtualcampus.

From June 6th to 11th, 2020, the yearly Johan Kooij Fellowship (JKF) workshop took place in Pretoria, South Africa. Majority of the GTP team, including Facilitators, Coordinators and Programme Managers (27 participants from 22 countries), got together to get to know each other, strategise for the future, identifying challenges and areas of improvement. The programme content was well balanced with good team building processes, in a warm environment where everybody felt comfortable, enabling good and responsive participation, resulting in a productive event. More details are available in the upcoming JKF report.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Learning Circles & Understanding Diversity: The September Learning Circles in English and French will begin September 13th and October 4th respectively.  Plans are underway to begin a Spanish learning circle in the year 2020/2020. The next phase of the Understanding Diversity project will kick off in July/August. A cut of mark of 70% in the Advanced Learning Circle was used as criteria for participation – the class with the highest mark from a country was selected where there was more than one class from a country.

iEARN 2020: The GTP team will be represented at the upcoming iEARN conference in Koiscé, Slovakia from July 11-17th by the following partner’s iEARN Ukraine (Natasha Cherednichenko), iEARN Netherlands (Bob Hofman of ICT-EDU) and the Program Managers.

For more information on the G.T.P please email: [email protected]

Source: Global Teenager Project