A group of university teachers, which
consists of Dr. Saeed A. Saeed, Mr. Araz Bashar M. Ali, and Ms. Lureen Ibraheem
Nasir from the English language department of College of Basic Education, University
of Duhok, and Literacy Consultant Mr. Diego Zaffaroni, have initiated the idea
of organizing Jolly Phonics in Six Public Primary Schools in Duhok City
a free teacher-training course for 17
primary school teachers who teach English language in six public primary
schools in Duhok city (Halwist, Zanko, Avro City, Rezan, Siyenna, Piremagroon),
to implement the Jolly Phonics programme to improve literacy standards in their
schools. Those public institutions have been chosen in coordination with the
General Directorate of Education of Duhok city. Accordingly, the consent has
been officially taken to start a “pilot project” in the selected schools; the
project aims at offering free, high-quality teacher training and mentoring to
implement a successful Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme, Jolly Phonics.
The organizing team will work closely with the teachers and school leaders, to observe
those classes regularly, to collect relevant data and assess students’ progress
on a regular basis.
Mr. Diego Zaffaroni, who is a
well-experienced literacy trainer and instructor in Jolly Phonics, gave the
training course in two intensive sessions on 12/01/2019 & 26/01/2019 for
almost 6 hours per session, starting from 8:30 – 2:00. It is worth mentioning
that all of the required materials (Jolly Phonic books, flash-cards, teachers’
books, students’ books, posters, CDs and DVSs) were provided by the publisher
of the programme, Jolly Learning LTD, and were given to the above-mentioned
schools after the training sessions have been successfully conducted. Jolly
Learning has been running pilot schemes which in some cases have led to
region/state official adoption (e.g. Nigeria, Ghana).
The pilot project is now ongoing and
follow up sessions and assessments are being done on a regular basis; above
all, the preliminary results are highly encouraging.
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