Teacher IMPACT Update

Posted by Zina Omarova, English Program Manager

A lot has been happening recently with Teacher IMPACT. Here are some highlights of recent activities.

April 22-24, 2008
Heather Lewis trained 16 village English Language (EL) teachers from 7 regions of the Zhambyl Oblast (the oblast that Taraz is located in) to be IMPACT trainers. They had been selected after 50 hours of IMPACT courses during the previous 2 years. The training was held at the Interlink office. EL teachers got certificates showing their successful completion of the IMPACT trainer course. This June, together with the main trainers from Taraz and the author of the program (Heather Lewis), they will train teachers in their own regions.

April 26-27, 2008
40 Taraz University and school English Language teachers attended the 4th round of the IMPACT program and got certificates of completion. Our main trainers Galina Polikhronidy, Rosa Molchanova, Marina Kirichenko as well as Heather Lewis, trained them.

May 6, 2008
Heather started to train 14 City University and School teachers, who will be trained to be IMPACT trainers. The teachers will come twice a week to the Interlink office and will work from 2:30 pm until 6:00 pm.