Project Update: September 2005

During September, 27 teachers from 16 of the local schools attended a week long teacher training workshop. TCA’s Education Officer Mrs Jean Thomas wrote a training manual based on the PNG science and social science curriculum. The manual is designed as a resource that can help teachers with lesson plans, activities and background information on science and conservation. The content of the manual contains many local examples of animals including the critically endangered Scott’s Tree Kangaroo or Tenkile as it is known in the local language.

Most teachers found the training workshop interesting and have learned a lot.

Mr Ainui Robin

“The nature of living things was an excellent unit of work that really helped me to know the importance of nature because many times I use to say that nature is ‘something nothing’ but the truth is that nature plays an important role in life”

Mr Mathew Makari

“I now realize that PNG is a very unique nation because it has a lot of plants and animals that are not found in other parts of the world. I also learned that humans have had and will have greater impact on the environment and I have to assist one way or another to disseminate information regarding ways and strategies to conserve our most fragile species in the environment.”