After lunch, Eric continued with a reading about Paulo Freire‘s work on banking education versus liberation education. The teachers found this very interesting. We had teachers discuss in their groups about reading and different ideas about education, schooling and the two different types of teaching. There was some lively discussion among the groups about these styles of education.

We started the training that day by rearranging the desks so that the layout of the classroom could more easily accommodate group work, something not normally done in Haiti schools. After registration, Eric started with an activity to demonstrate different ways of learning such as visual and auditory. It illustrates the different ways we learn, being creative, thinking outside the box and demonstrates multiple solutions to the same problem.

The teachers loved these interactive activities and some even said they would like to use them in their classes!