Teaching and Learning for Living
Characteristics Common to All Five Mwangaza Programs:
- Program designs reflect constituencies' needs;
- Participants from at least three dioceses attend all training seminars;
- Trainees return to their dioceses to teach other leaders;
- Programs include critical thinking, group work, opportunities for dialogue
- and questions, and reflection on problem-posing pictures; and
- Through Mwangaza programs, all are empowered.
Mwangaza's Five Education Programs
 | Secondary School Teachers Skill | |
| Development Program: |
- Teacher exchanges are
scheduled every three years for
ELCT/ELCA teachers for
collaborative development of
teaching guides, team taught
seminars, and provision of
material resources. - Mwangaza professional
development seminars respond to
requests for teacher-training
from 51 schools within the ELCT
nationwide. - Seminars focus upon teaching
strategies, problem-posing
pictures, interpreting visuals, and
HIV/AIDS. - Mwangaza teacher-training
seminars develop classrooms that
respect the learner and create a
non-threatening learning
environment. - Typically, ten Tanzanian students
use a single text. Through book
purchases, Mwangaza seeks to
reduce the 10:1 ratio.
| Computer Training and Online | |
| Teacher Partnerships: Computer instruction for teachers from focus schools in seven dioceses and for seminar participants. Computer training has been added to the summer teacher seminars as of June 2006. A partnership program pairing Tanzanian teacher leaders with U.S. teachers was begun in 2005. Online partners discuss pedagogy and lesson development, share resources and teaching strategies. |
| Integrated HIV/AiDS and Covenant | |
| Circle Program: Seminar instruction is provided for community leaders followed by evaluation seminars: |
- Information regarding contraction
of disease and prevention - Information regarding process of
behavior change - Establishment of peer support
and guardian programs
Emphasis on responsibilities of all
members of a community; issues
of stigma and gender
- Covenant Circle - commitment to
behavioral change - A code of behavior design for
each community that places
responsibility on everyone.
| Binti-Mama/Daughter-Mother | |
| Program: |
communication, family health, nutrition,
and also:
- Issues of violence, HIV/AIDS
prevention, gender relationships - Women's life cycle, abortion,
family planning - Relationships and responsibility in
family, community, church - Issues of power and authority
- Leadership models for women
identified in selected Bible stories - Importance of formal and informal
education for girls
| Mwana-Baba/Son-Father Program: | |
| Instruction covers life-skills: communication, family health, nutrition, and also: |
- Issues of violence, HIV/AIDS
prevention, gender relationships - Women's life cycle, abortion,
family planning - Relationships and responsibility in
family, community, church - Issues of power and authority
- Leadership models for women
identified in selected Bible stories - Importance of formal and informal
education for girls
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