For three successive days of this last week of the short school holidays of July 2019, the trainers in Active and Participatory Pedagogy – PAP, or the PAP teaching unit at the education department – BNEP of the Protestant Council of Rwanda – CPR, were trained in techniques for manufacturing teaching materials.
These teachers, however professional they may be, have often been busy training their fellow teachers across the country in general didactics teaching methods that involve students as much as possible in their lessons. However, active methods also mean the use of appropriately prepared teaching materials. It is therefore very important that these trainers be sufficiently experienced in creating teaching materials based on certain techniques.
A training session was therefore organized for the PAP teaching unit in techniques for manufacturing teaching materials from July 30 to August 1, 2019. They learned to manufacture teaching materials from materials ready to be thrown away or at very low prices: used paper, cardboard, a very large quantity of glue from cassava flour, and.
The Director of BNEP visited the participants in the workshop
They learn to make semi-concrete material (very close to the object itself in its real colors). This manufactured material will last as long as possible, even years and years if it is well preserved. Thus, the teacher will then take the time to increase the quantity (number) of material available to his class or to imagine many others. In addition to active techniques, the imagination, courage and creativity of each person play the rest of the part.
This training is useful in several ways: these teachers use learned techniques to make teaching materials in their respective classes and help their fellow teachers by giving them active teaching techniques and techniques for making teaching materials at the same time.