The work
Thai–Myanmar borderTraining the teachers who stay.
Local people train here to teach in their own communities. Training teachers is what makes the rest of it last.
What happens here
Training first, then a placement in the schools.
Student teachers finish two years of coursework and go out to the schools on placement for two more. They pick up planning, running a classroom and working with a community from teachers already doing it, and the schools get another pair of hands while they are there.
More than fifty teachers have come through across the years. A second college is under consideration, because the schools now need more teachers than one college can train.
Who runs it
Trainers who did the same course.
The trainers
Teacher trainers working alongside the serving teachers who take student teachers on placement and give them feedback while they are there.
What else runs from here
Professional development for teachers already in classrooms, and an introduction to teaching for people in the border communities who want to start.
Where this sits
The students who came back.
Some of the student teachers grew up in the jungle schools. They finished, trained here, and went back to teach where they sat as children. EAI calls this its sustainable model.
The schools they trained for, and the children in them.
Photographs
EAI's own pictures, used as shot.