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NLPS teacher goes to Haiti with Project Overseas

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TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff ) — Heading to an impoverished country struggling to recuperate from a serious natural disaster might not be everyone’s view of professional

development, but it was for New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) teacher Bruno Dallaire.Mr. Dallaire, a French

language teacher with District School Board Ontario North East (DSBONE) was one of several teachers selected this past summer to volunteer for approximately three weeks (July

6-27) of his summer vacation helping to provide professional upgrading to active teachers in Haiti.

This was his second trip to Haiti as part of The Canadian Teachers Federation (CTF) Project Overseas campaign.

He has previously taught teachers in the African country of Burkina Faso.

“Project Overseas made me realize how fortunate I am to be teaching in Canada and this experience was inspiring and rewarding,” he said

in an interview at The Temiskaming Speaker recently.

The Canadian Teacher’s Federation (CTF) Project Overseas campaign has been in existence for over 50 years and has sent thousands of teachers abroad bringing their skills as educators to help classroom colleagues in the Caribbean, Asia, Latin America and Africa.

“The experience was a good networking opportunity and I met teachers from Haiti and other parts of Canada,” he added.

With extreme conditions, lack of adequate supplies and poor teaching conditions, many of Haiti’s teachers were very appreciative of the mentoring aspect of Project Overseas.TYPICAL DAY

A typical teaching day for Mr. Dallaire in Haiti would go something like this: He started teaching at 8 a.m. and finished around 2:30 p.m. because of the extreme heat and humidity levels in the afternoon. He either spent the rest of his day debriefing and or sightseeing.

He said the elementary particpants

rotated among lesson plans involving French and Science and Math while the secondary participants had French only. He mentioned all participants had the chance to take part in Creole workshops facilitated by one of the co-tutors.IMPRESSIONS

Mr. Dallaire’s overall impression of teaching in Haiti was, “We were treated very well, I had a chance to see a side of the island I hadn’t seen before and experienced the beauty of the place. It is an incredibly beautiful island. Now I have seen both sides (north and south),” he said.

He mentioned teachers in Haiti are challenged by the sheer size of the classes they teach which are well beyond the class limits in Canada.

The strategies that work in Canada often are not as easily applied in other countries, he said.

Teachers in Haiti are working at the elementary and secondary school levels, with no post-secondary teaching available on that Caribbean Island.

New Liskeard Public School teacher Bruno Dallaire (bottom row middle) is surrounded by Haitian teachers. He was a teacher mentor to his colleagues. (Supplied photo)

Haitian girls are pictured wearing dresses that Mr. Dallaire and friends donated to less fortunate children while he was in Haiti last summer. (Supplied photo)

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Continued from C FrontThe people of Haiti provided

a welcoming atmosphere for the visiting teachers.

“They welcomed us and were very happy to see us. The Hai-tians are a proud people.”HUMANITARIAN

Mr. Dallaire’s visit had a hu-manitarian aspect to it.

When he visited Haiti he brought with him over 40 chil-drens’

dresses made by volunteers in this region.

“My colleague, Monica Rus-nak from Timmins, had an idea to create dresses from pillow cases. So with the help of a few friends, they sowed the dresses.

“I took that idea and sent out letters to all the families at school and asked for donations of pillow cases, thread and rib-bons.”

Support for his idea was warmly received and once he received the materials for the dresses he asked Timiskam-ing District Secondary School teacher Jodee Franceour if her students would be willing to make the dresses, and they did.

In addition, NLPS parent vol-unteer Elizabeth Foley sewed a total of 30 dresses and Active1 Source for Sports donated t-shirts for the Haitian children.

Overall he says it may be his last trip overseas as he wants to step back to give other ETFO (Elementary Teachers Federa-tion of Ontario) teachers the opportunity to take part in this “very enriching experience.”

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