Teacher workshop

Monday through Wednesday we had a workshop for teachers of the deaf, sponsored by Vision Trust. There were teachers from all over the country. Each of the three days we had about thirty participants.

The team that came did an excellent job. This kind of training is much needed, and much appreciated. The teachers participated with enthusiasm. All went away from the workshop with new teaching materials in hand, many of which they had made themselves at the workshop, and fresh ideas for teaching their deaf students.

There was a lot of interest in having more workshops next year.

Maria and I have been asked to present three days of afternoon workshops for the public school teachers in Northern Santo Domingo, many of whom are Christians, interested in working with the deaf. Those will be next Wednesday through Friday. A few of these teachers actually have deaf students in their classes, with no interpreters or support services at all--not a good idea. There are also a couple who have deaf children themselves.

Now you cannot prepare teachers of the deaf from scratch in three days, but we will give them a basic orientation to deafness, and some survival signs. We hope that we can pique their interest to follow up and get more training.