Mae Sot on the Thai/Myanmar Border
Over the school year, MEP’s team of trainers in Mae Sot delivers eight teacher training workshops in two different centres. This year, we have 42 teachers, and our main focus is training in essential classroom skills, including teaching techniques from the perspective of the learner.​
After each workshop, teachers receive an on-site visit, with MEP trainers supporting their implementation of the workshop skills.
These trainee teachers are also given the opportunity to qualify for a 6-month Cambridge English Certificate course, and this year had a total of 26 Basic and 11 Advanced level candidates sitting the Cambridge exam in December.
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Besides improving their English and gaining an internationally recognised qualification, we have found that the Cambridge English Certificate also gives teachers an experience of the learner-centred teaching techniques covered in our workshop, and so encourages them to use this different approach in their own classrooms.
