The National Orthodox Kindergarten is located in a densely populated, low-income neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh in Amman. Many of the people in the neighborhood are refugees some from Palestine from 1948 and 1967, or refugees from Iraq, Sudan and Egypt. MCC is supporting updating educational resources and enhancing professional development for teachers and parents.
We met with the Kindergarten principal - yes a principal for just the Kindergarten.
Cindy, Nada and James
This is the current library for the Kindergarten classes, they would like to incorporate small libraries into each classroom in the near future.
These little guys were making worms for me - as
fast as they could!
Our last Global Family partner visit was to the Arab Episcopal School in Irbid, Jordan.
They provide one-on-one teaching for blind and low-vision students starting in preschool through 10th grade. The government schools will not accept blind or low-vision students, so this school accepts them and fully integrates them in with regular-sighted kids.
Jordan is 98% Muslim and only 2% Christian, the school is a Christian school but they welcome everyone giving a Christian witness in a Muslim country.
They currently have 42 blind students in the school. They teach the blind students Braille and they have a machine that makes Braille worksheets and tests for the blind students to use. The machine is called the Peacemaker - isn't that interesting?
We watched a student write out a greeting in Braille and
then the teacher read it for us. It's not uncommon in the US to have a blind child integrated into a regular classroom, so I had to remind myself how this school was doing things so much different then their government would.
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