The CIVICS Teachersą Training was organized in collaboration with the US-Consulate General-Karachi. Ms. Farah S. Kamal the iEARN Country Coordinator facilitated the pre-training, training and the post training activities. The three-day training programme involved 23 teachers from 13 different K-12 and post secondary educational institutions from April 2-4, 2002. Participating teachers primarily serve the educational needs of students coming from low and middle class social background of the society.

Although eleven of the thirteen schools have access to computers and internet in their schools for their students, none of the schools had ever utilized email or Internet base collaborative projects for teaching and learning activities. All of the schools and participants expressed their desire to acquire skills and opportunities to integrate ICP in their curricula. The training helped change the teacher's perception of teaching in general and the use of technology for presenting meaningful learning experiences to students. One teacher wrote, "… this workshop changed my views. I learnt that …a teacher can explore many things to make her classrooms more creative. Today as teachers …we have to rush with our syllabus … and work according to our curriculum and prepare results. We donąt give much priority to the creative classroom teaching. Here I found iEARN as a really good friend which will help me out to enhance my teaching skills and to enrich my teaching content."

Spotlight on ... Workshop in Karachi, Pakistan