While school was closed last weekend, our teaching staff was hard at work, attending a 2-day Teacher Training workshop.

A team of professional coaches flew in from Vancouver, on behalf of NASIMCO's Center of Islamic Learning (CIL-NASIMCO) to facilitate the workshop.

Topics covered during the interactive workshop were modules included the following topics:

• active listening
• multiple intelligences
• being a model teacher
• teacher centered vs student centered learning
• behavior management
• teacher growth planning
• emotional intelligence
• effective lesson planning
• presence in the classroom

Our goal with this exercise was is to improve the quality of our education, the caliber of our teaching staff.