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Giving Children a Brighter
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A team of dedicated
individuals brings the gift of education to the children of Zimbabwe.
It all started nine
years ago, when Ann Roberts first traveled to Zimbabwe to put L. Ron Hubbard's
Study Technology into the educational system.
Study Technology is
a learning system that produces a greatly improved result when used exactly
(by technology is meant methods of application to obtain a specific result).
L. Ron Hubbard developed Study Technology to help students truly understand
what they study and essentially learn how to learn.
Study Technology consists
of tools and techniques that teachers can use to improve the learning
rates of their students. Students can use it to improve their ability
to understand and use the materials they read and study. It is not a collection
of study or memory tricks. It is a system of learning how to learn.
Zimbabwe is located in the southern regions of Africa, a country torn
by political contention, a poor economy and high unemployment. Survival
is difficult; the average life expectancy is only 36 years, largely due
to widespread HIV infection, while more than eight million people face
starvation.
Though Roberts had
been training Zimbabwean educators for several years, they had been slow
in moving toward a goal of training all 90,000 teachers in Zimbabwe; they
had trained less than a thousand in each year.
Ann's team intended
to speed up the delivery of teachers trained in Study Technology by introducing
successful one-day workshops that had been used in The Gambia, a small
country on the northwest coast of Africa. To achieve this, Applied Scholastics
representatives presented the Permanent Secretary of Education in Zimbabwe,
Mr. T.K. Tsodzo, with plans to implement one-day workshops in two regions
of Zimbabwe. It was agreed that Applied Scholastics volunteers would train
Zimbabwean educators to teach other teachers.
Under the leadership
of Ann Roberts, a team of Applied Scholastics educators from the United
Kingdom introduced thirty Zimbabwean trainers to all the necessary skills
to deliver workshops to hundreds of teachers in a single day.
Though the trainers
couldn't believe it was possible to handle that many teachers, they rose
to the challenge and, on their own, delivered seven days of workshops
to 3,700 teachers and a small number of students.
The seminars addressed
the very roots of educational turmoil, teaching the teachers how to help,
manage and communicate with their students. More importantly, the teachers
also learned how to help students remove barriers from their education.
With the implementation
of L. Ron Hubbard's Study Technology throughout Zimbabwe, the country
now has a bright future ahead of it.
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