Samstag, 14. September 2013

Day 7: Teacher selection...



In the beginning of our stay in Jordan we asked the local volunteers of the Syrian-US-american NGO that we might at some point select / employ teachers for the education projects that we wanted to fund with your donations. We asked them as well as the head of the Spinal Cord Injury clinic to find adequate candidates for the selection. We were informed on Friday that one teacher was found and that we could meet with her on Saturday. This teacher has almost 20 years of experience in teaching and is a refugee herself.

We asked our local support Reem (herself Syrian, from the US, studied at Georgia Tech but lives now with her family in Amman) and Noor (herself also Syrian, teacher, studied at MIT and is now teaching Jordan's best private school) to come along and help us with the interviewing.
Our selection criteria were: open-mindedness, open for feedback, ideally motherly figure, awareness of the childrens’ special situation, ideally Syrian refugee herself, thereby hitting two birds with one stone.
The general feedback was positive and we were happy to put her into round two. More teachers will be interviewed, in Amman for the Spinal Cord Injury clinic as well as in Irbid for the School for Widows (with the half-orphans) where we have two positions to fill.
Reem and Noor volunteered to continue the teachers' interview process while we are not on the ground.

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