My name is Marian Dekkers and I have been working in education for 35 years. I started my career teaching refugee children and have worked adult education with Vietnamese refugees.
In those 35 years I taught children in all kind of ages and Grades. Preschool and Grade 1 till 8.
Grade 1 always fascinated me; it’s always a miracle when children start reading. Especially when you know what a complex processes it is,and what is going on in the brain.
For the last 10 years, I have often been to India for the ‘Planet Hope’ foundation to teach and train Indian Primary school teachers there.
The inequality was heartbreking. Where the children in my class nowadays all have a laptop on their table and a well-trained teacher, I saw children sitting there in the school benches with just one crumpled book, they had to share it together…
I will never forget the child, sitting outside the class crying for food and the toddler, eating sand to fill her stomach.
I thought: ‘This has to be different, this can be different‘…….
this will be…”‘ The Key of Education‘…..
Trained readers
Trained teachers
When our chairwoman Marian Dekkers taught for the first time in India at a primary school in 2011 for the 'Planet Hope' foundation, she was struck by the poor technical reading skills of the children.
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We believe in the power of physical knowledge transfer in the module of 'train the teacher' in which observing, co-teaching and evaluating and actually 'practicing' together as teachers in front of the class, is very effective.
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Volunteers can register with our foundation and after an intake, in which it is mainly checked whether someone is well motivated, they follow a two-day training in didactics and course material of 'The Key of Education'.
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