What I think about the mobile phone conversation lessons by Mohan from Kilinochchi

Sometimes I struggled with my English sentence formation as I had less knowledge but after the mobile conversation messages I think I am much better now. I am lucky to have a suitable, knowledgeable and creative conversation partner namely Mr.Mark. I don’t have any other chance to use what I know about English except what …

Sri Lankan Village School Teachers run first workshop for peers

From April 21-24, 2013, a team of five lead teachers from the schools participating in the PIMD Lotus Program, ran their first Lotus Program teacher training workshop. PIMD was on hand to support them but they did an amazing job which was acknowledged by their peers. The other attending teachers commented that this was the …

January 2013 Schools Visit shows strong commitment to Lotus Program

During the first two weeks of January the PIMD team visited all six schools in the Lotus program to measure first year outcomes. Full credit must go to the Principals and staff of the village schools for what they have achieved in 2012 under very difficult circumstances. At each school we reviewed the students’ progress …

Lotus Program launches! January 2012

In January, 2012 the PIMD team visited the six schools participating in our Lotus Program to formally launch the Lotus Program at the start of the new school year. All teachers gave demonstration lessons. View videos of some of the standouts on our Youtube channel .

PIMD Guided Reading Demo Video

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PIMD at work with children in Sri Lanka – a guided reading lesson.

Lotus Program to launch in six schools in January 2012

Six schools in north-east Sri Lanka will formally launch the Lotus Program in January, 2012 at the start of the new school year using new teaching methods and resources supplied by PIMD. This program is a jointly sponsored by PIMD, the Ministry of Education in Sri Lanka and the Provincial Departments of Education for the …

First Teacher Training Workshop

In July 2011 PIMD conducted the first teacher training workshop for the new phase of our Lotus Program focusing on English and Computer Literacy for Grades 3-5. Forty teachers from six schools participated. They were introduced to teaching techniques and approaches for English Literacy based on the use of levelled readers in both guided (small group) …