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PIMD partners with Sri Lankan Universities
PIMD has partnered with the University of Jaffna and the Eastern University of Sri Lanka to offer the PIMD teacher training as short courses through their online and distance learning centres. The first course to be offered is “Teaching Phonological Awareness and Phonics for English in Schools”. 700 primary English teachers applied for the first …
PIMD feeds the children
In June-July 2022 PIMD provided funds to 15 schools to cover the cost of providing a nutritious meal per day for every student for a month. This action was taken in response to the economic crisis in the country which has meant that Government funding for the school nutrition program had either ceased or declined …
PIMD – New Team Members
We are pleased to welcome two new members to our core team of consultants: Mrs M.S. Fathima Rihana and Ms Shashikala Dissanayake. Mrs M. S. Fathima Rihana, Primary English Consultant, is a primary English teacher in Sri Lanka with a Bachelor of Arts (English, Education, and Sociology) from the Eastern University of Sri Lanka. In addition …
The Lotus Program Works
We recently received this feedback from a primary English teacher in one of the Lotus Program schools in Sri Lanka: “My school is situated in Trincomalee district .There are more than 35 children in each classes. I am one and only English teacher in my school . I faced a lot of issues in my …
PIMD Teacher Training August 2021 attracts 400 teachers!
PIMD’s latest training course introduces important language concepts for language teachers and demonstrates how to teach phonemic awareness and phonics for English in Grades 1 and 2. This year we opened up the training to any interested teacher in Sri Lanka and 400 teachers signed up for the 9 week course! This is a milestone …
Books delivered to 38 schools, in 3 days!
Once again our trusted delivery agent, Mandara Tours, has completed a monumental effort delivering Grade 4 levelled readers to 38 schools in 3 days, battling cyclonic conditions in the North and East of Sri Lanka! These books will allow the Lotus Program to extend to Grade 4 as well as Grade 3 in 2021.
TWDG partners with PIMD to improve Teachers’ English
The Tamil Women’s Development Group (TWDG) is partnering with PIMD to help individual teachers in the Lotus Program build their confidence in spoken English. TWDG volunteers work with individual teachers for 45 mins/week online engaging in English conversation. We are trying to build the teachers’ confidence to help them teach English in the classroom and …
Online training for teachers Sept-Nov 2020
On 29th August a three month, 10 module online training program was launched for 150 teachers in Sri Lanka who teach in PIMD Lotus Program Schools. Teachers watch a pre-recorded lecture each week and then join an online face-to-face discussion workshop. We hope to continue with this mode of delivery offering just in time training …
In-service Workshops Sri Lanka March 2020
For two weeks in March the PIMD Team and Local ISA Support Team conducted a series of in-service workshops for Lotus Schools in Sri Lanka. The workshops were very productive and helped us to better understand how to improve the program to better suit the conditions in the schools. This was an important step to …
Lotus Schools receive levelled readers
Over three days and covering 2500 km we managed to deliver levelled readers to 41 schools ready for the new school year in 2020! We wish to thank the printer, Kandy Offset Printers, our logistics team in Kandy who collated the boxes for the schools – Narain, Veronica and Vassu, and our delivery team who …
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