December 13, 2022
Tuesday
Maker Space Materials Have Arrived!
Today was a day for examining and sorting the material that the PEBL participants will receive to start to develop their Maker Spaces in their own school sites. Djamila, Joni and I literally rolled up our sleeves and began the process of recording the materials that had arrived and what is yet to be delivered.
The materials have been delivered to MGS for storage and sorting. Materials will be divided equally among the schools that have sent participants to the PEBL Trainings. After the new term begins in January, Sister Laetitia, Djamila and Robert will visit each school site, deliver the materials, and acknowledge the terrific work the teachers have already done by participating in the trainings. They will express how pleased they are that they have begun to plan for a Maker Space in their school. It will be a chance to see how far they have been able to go with the planning steps they developed at the end of their work in December 10. The encouragement of the PEBL Trainers and Sister Laetitia as a Head of School will be a reminder that there is going to be support throughout the term as they follow their planning scheme and develop their engineering spaces and Maker Space ideas.
At the close of the April PEBL Training, Djamila asked the teachers to make lists of the materials they felt would be needed to use Novel Engineering and making as part of their curriculum. Djamila honored their lists, and refined some of the list while she was at Tufts in October visiting Maker Spaces with which the CEEO has been working.. She ordered the materials when she returned to Rwanda and they are beginning to arrive. It’s exciting for her to see the shipments. It was good for me to see what the teachers will be receiving that they can continue teaching and learning in Novel Engineering and Arduino.
As I was unwrapping boxes, sorting stuff and reporting each category to Djamila for her inventory, I was reminded of the terrific examples of student work in the Maker Space that we saw Monday in Kigali. Djamila is certain that the ambitious, creative teachers who have been working with the PEBL philosophy will do “great things in each of their schools. I will end this blog post with some photos of the first Primary School Maker Space tat teachers from the April PEBL training have developed. It is evidence that all that stuff we sorted and counted and recounted and recorded on a spreadsheet will be put to good use when they arrive in school in the New Year to enhance student learning!
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