December 2003 Improving Teaching and Learning in GuineaA Virtual Field Trip Since 1997, EDC has been working
to improve elementary education for nearly every child in the West
African Our virtual field trip narrated by EDC's Thelma Khelghati who
directs field operations in Guinea, provides an overview of the
program
and its successes accompanied by photos of classrooms, teachers,
and students Click
here to
take the field trip. [Note: the field trip is a multimedia file that may take a few minutes to load, depending on the speed of your computer and your connection to the Internet. Once loaded, the running time is 2:00 minutes]. The Guinea project is a project of EDC’s International Education System Division. Music for the production is provided courtesy of the African Children's
Choir, www.africanchildrenschoir.com. http://main.edc.org/newsroom/features/guinea.asp ©2003 Education Development Center, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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nation
of Guinea. The program, funded by the US Agency for International
Development (USAID),
is reaching more than 6,000 schools and nearly one million
children through
teacher training, radio based instruction, and other educational
materials. 
throughout
the country. 
