Since the new teacher training centre was built after the earthquake, the Foundation has trained 94 teachers, and helped some of them to set up 6 new schools.
95% of teachers who graduated in the first 5 teacher-training promotions, are employed as teachers in different parts of Haiti. This means that not only is the Foundation directly creating long-term livelihoods for these new teachers, but that more and more children will continue to benefit from a quality education during the lifetime of their careers as teachers.
2,900 more children are now benefiting directly from quality instruction as a direct result of the 6 new schools which were created by our graduating teachers.
We have continued our commitment to improving teacher skills. And over the last 4 summers we have conducted in-service training seminars for 64 teachers from schools in different regions of Haiti, to improve their skills in teaching, as well as workshops for them to make their own classroom materials.
All of the teachers who attended these workshops were trained by the Foundation over the years. Some had only been Montessori teachers for one year. Others had been Montessori educators for over twenty years and were still operating the schools they opened when they completed their initial training with the Foundation that long ago. Staying at the residential training centre during the in-service training workshops was also a time for these teachers to share their experiences, renew old friendships and help their younger colleagues.
We also made site visits to 12 schools to provide technical assistance and to assure the quality of education in those schools.