Ongoing Project
Over the years we had had quite productive interactions with children, from taking them on exciting and expository educational trips to facilitating writing exploits based on our trips. One of the writings was taken up as a Children Book Publication Project.
A Memorable Day was the outcome of the Children Book Writing project facilitated by our Lead Consultant Anthonia Alabi in collaboration with the Alpha Beta Education Centre, Accra Ghana in 2004. In preparation for this project, the Primary Three pupils of the School were taken on a tour of the facilities of Ghana Society for the Blind where they interacted with the staff of the Facility most of whom had visual impairment and some of the blind people who came in for one support or another. They also visited the School for the Deaf also in Accra where they witnessed class sessions for the students of the School, interacted with them and donated a sewing machine and other items to their Vocation centre.
The children writers captured their experiences in the book which they wrote, edited and published with the support of their parents. The School actually launched the book. This is in order to take the young writers through the full process of book publication, writers also make money from the sale of their books.
More Story books by children. This time we are facilitating the writing of interesting French story books authored by children. This time we are collaborating with our ever supportive schools to facilitate the production of French story books for children and anyone who desires to explore the French language. For many years, the French language has been part of the curriculum of the English speaking West African schools, but it has been observed that it is only a minute population of English speaking Africa who can converse in French. After a research we conducted through our interactions with the schools we consult for and a market survey, we concluded that the teaching of the French language has not been effective because of the lack of encouragement to read wide as it is done with the English language. Schools have not even made efforts to recommend the reading of storybooks aside the few stories in the textbooks which are only read to children by teachers and very few of the French teachers take time to do shared reading which gives the student the opportunity to work on perfecting their phonics and phonemic blending skills in the language.
Indeed, over many years we have sought to educate the French teachers we are opportuned to meet to duplicate the practice of teaching the French language as done by their fellow teachers teaching the English language subject in their schools. Last year we embarked on training workshops for teachers teaching the French language in our English speaking West African schools. This workshop was carried out with physical Composition lessons. Mon Grande Ecole is another children written storybook from our stable. With the permission of our client The Vision School, Accra Ghana, we started our Children French Storybook. The book Mon Grande Ecole was written and illustrated by the students of The Vision School facilitated by their French teachers, Monsieur Daniel Ahiable and Madame Raissa Ona.
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