Tuesday 10 March 2009

Dr Thein Lwin's busy day...

.... but not as busy as it would have been if Murray was still in Scotland!

Today Dr Thein Lwin showed Forthview P5/6 pupils the work he had been doing with Hle Bee Grade 5 on WATER - an environmental education investigation using critical thinking. Forthview children listened and thought so well. They asked very clever questions and showed that they have already learnt to so much about the Burmese people and they learnt even more today.

Tomorrow Dr Thein Lwin will get P5/6 to think about water use in Scotland and make a presentation about this for Hle Bee students. Dr Thein Lwin will take this back to Hle Bee.

Sadly we forgot to take photos! We'll post them tomorrow.

Next off to the beautiful Newbattle Abbey College for a very creative meeting with the Management Team who are working with Murray Forgie and Stuart Simpson towards delivering and accrediting 20 Burmese students in English in collaboration with the Scottish Qualification Authority. Newbattle are showing great initiative in developing this project. Here you can see Nora Fitzcharles, Depute Prinicipal of Newbattle Abbey College with Dr Thein Lwin. Read about Newbattle at www.newbattleabbeycollege.ac.uk/

Finally, Dr Thein Lwin gave a lecture at Edinburgh University to the BA in Childhood Practice students on Critical Thinking for Burmese schools. Again the students listened and asked very searching and insightful questions.

Now Dr Thein Lwin is asleep........ more tomorrow!

PS If Murray was here, Dr Thein Lwin would still be out at meetings. After all, it's only 11pm!

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