Hi Cherry!<div><br></div><div>The Lubang Support Team will bring the curriculum on Dec 7, Monday. Am setting up a lunch meeting with Ray Morales and Lloyd Daulat and hoping Sandeep and Joel could join too. No definite venue yet because I have to find out where they will be coming from. I may not be able to reciprocate the same welcome they gave us like a marching band<img src="cid:338@goomoji.gmail" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; " goomoji="338"> The most I could do is to treat them to lunch <img src="cid:32B@goomoji.gmail" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; " goomoji="32B">.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have a 2002 DepEd curriculum from Grs. 1-6, all subjects, which I can share with you. But I want to check theirs if they are using the RBEC or Revised Basic Ed Curriculum which I think came out in 2006 or 2007. Will let you know after the meeting on Monday.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Re the curriculum design, if I may suggest, I would like the "champion" teachers to be part of the process. This is going to be one of the components in the teacher training program we will conduct sometime in the first quarter. We still have to draft the timeline factoring the delay in the manufacturing of the 1.5 XO models. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Will give you updates soon.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:10 AM, Cherry Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwithers@ekindling.org">cwithers@ekindling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi All,<br><br>I spoke to a teacher that's also a member of the Squeakland education team. Her name's Christine M. She's going to the Virgin Islands in late May with 15 of her high school students from an all girls private school. The girls are going to develop materials for 4th graders using Etoys. I mentioned that it might be the grade that we will be working with and she said to send them ideas for her girls to work on as they are very eager to help. Her students are doing research now and learning Etoys independently. By January they will put their ideas on ebooks and lesson plans so by May they can just teach for a week in VI. I told her that we'll work on curriculum design first then we'll start from there. <br>
<br>Regards,<br><font color="#888888">---Cherry<br></font>P.S. I do hope that we get a more detailed curriculum as a baseline than the Department of Education one that I was able to download off of their website. That one was only 4 pages long and it looks like a scanned photocopy of a curriculum that's been used since the 1980s. It is not very detailed and the 4 pages covered the entire public school curriculum from 1st-6th grade. Crossing my fingers that we'll get a more details from the Lubang teachers. <br>
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