Games in the schools [Archives:2006/976/Local News]

SANA'A, Aug. 27 ) Teachers are learning how to use games as a teaching tool.

At a three-day workshop at the Resources Center for Early Childhood Development teachers learnt how games will help them in their classrooms. It was part of a project brought together by the Ministry of Education, UNICEF, and the High Council for Motherhood, SOUL NGO and the Japanese Higher Council for Motherhood and Childhood.

The workshop further focuses on practical methods and approaches to education through “playing,” to be adopted while teaching small children.

The Japanese Higher Council also prepared material for the participating teachers, including illustrations and pictures of games used in classes with students. Their main interest lies in developing the areas of girls education, basic education, extending rural water supply, and improving health services.

The involvement of the Japanese Higher Council in Yemen started in 1991, when the first batch of volunteers came to Yemen. Due to security concerns they left Yemen in 1994, but returned in 2002 after they had been assured that Yemen is secure.

The Japanese Higher Council office was officially reopened in March 2005 and the office is run by the office in Cairo, Egypt and the Japanese Embassy in Yemen is in charge of projects implementation.
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