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Very
informative and I am very pleased to have received training in a course which I
believe will soon be implemented in every school. It has definitely changed my
view on teaching phonics as I see it as a program that extends and allows
learners to reach their full potential, rather than inhibit. THRASS is
definitely the way forward in South-Africa and world wide.
Very
interesting and challenging. The presenter Laola was excellent, really bubbly,
dynamic and well informed and definitely well organised. The interactive Smart
Board and software to be used with the THRASS program is truly out of this
world. A big thank you to Laola and to ABSA for affording us the opportunity to
be trained in this program as well as sponsoring our school! Really appreciate
it!
Thank you
Laola for the informative and interactive two day workshop! This will be very
beneficial for improving the skills of our students.
Laola was
excellent, well prepared, dynamic and knowledgeable. I am looking forward to
trying out my first lesson. It was a lot of information to take in. However, I
am sure once I start implementing, it will unfold into place. Thank you for this
opportunity THRASS and ABSA.
A very
informative and insightful presentation! Laola was an excellent, dynamic
presenter and she was well prepared. I am looking forward to implementing
THRASS. Thank you THRASS and ABSA.
Very
interactive and informative. I am looking forward putting everything to
practice. It was very rich and though provoking. I enjoyed being part of this
training project.
A well
presented and meaningful workshop of how the linguistic system should be
implemented in English. I was able to grasp and apply concepts with relative
ease after a while. I am convinced that this will have a positive spin off in
teaching of English in our schools and will become a great tool for the teacher
in the classroom, many thanks to ABSA and Laola for doing a splendid job.
This
training program was most informative, interesting and lively, energetic with an
enthusiastic presentation by Laola that kept us on our toes and stimulating our
grey matters. The materials presented to us during the training program will
certainly be put to good use. We were challenged to participate at each level in
a manner which will be helpful when we implement THRASS in our classroom. A big
thank you for your tremendous effort and patience and the wonderful way you
handled the questions. Laola, God Bless and all the best.
Laola’s
presentation has been absolutely superb! We have indeed been privileged to
participate in this course, we have been brought up to speed by an expert in a
short period of two days and yet feel confident enough to implement the program
immediately. I believe THRASS presents us with opportunity to uplift the
literacy skills of all our learners so that they can become empowered to face a
highly competitive world with confidence in themselves. Thank you THRASS. Thank
you ABSA. Thank you UKZN. Thank you Laola for you passionate engagement with the
methodology.
Fantastic, I
really enjoyed it. I am looking forward to introducing it to our learners. I
would also like to thank Laola for the wonderful presentation and not forgetting
ABSA for giving us this opportunity.
An excellent
English program presentation! I thoroughly enjoyed the two days which was
intensive and thoroughly enjoyable. A clear step by step process of how THRASS
works provided me with the enthusiasm and enrichment of the knowledge and skills
that are needed to implement such a wonderful literacy program. This new option
of teaching THRASS is certainly something I look forward to optimistically.
I came in
with an open mind and I am so glad I did! I am leaving with an extended amount
of new knowledge and I am excited to begin putting it all into practice. THRASS
has really opened my eyes in a perspective of anything is possible!
I am so
excited about THRASS! I think it is absolutely brilliant! The whole concept
behind THRASS makes perfect sense and I think children will benefit largely from
it. A great presentation.
It is
different but very interesting and fun. A well prepared presentation!
Extremely
interesting, educational and relevant. Laola kept us interested and engaged. She
was also audible, clear and to the point. The concepts and practice will be
challenging and stimulating. It is definitely refreshing and a sensible program.
I look forward to using and teaching it.
Thank you
very much for sharing this knowledge with us. I am pleased that I learnt so much
in these two days that lightens my nervousness about teaching in my first year,
next year. I am pleased or I should rather say relieved that I had the
opportunity to undergo this THRASS program before I taught learners that there
are twenty one consonants and only five vowels in the alphabet. Thanks for
bringing this to South-Africa. I hope and pray that all teachers teach by using
THRASS.
A wonderful
enlightening course. It has certainly shaken up our prior knowledge. It is a
definite advantage for us as well as for our future learners that will help them
with the skills of reading, writing and spelling. I look forward to practicing
this methodology.
Extremely
informative. Introduced a new methodology of teaching. Although the content
challenges some of my previous experiences within a school environment, the
convincing deliverance of the THRASS program has allowed me to re-evaluate those
experiences. THRASS shows definite potential in aiding all learners in a
classroom situation and therefore should form an important role in classroom
teaching. On a whole I really enjoyed attending the two day course.
The whole
presentation was fantastic. With all the changes that we are going through in
our education, I think THRASS is the only program that puts more emphasis on
teaching handwriting, reading and spelling skills. Our kids have a big problem
when it comes to pronunciation and spelling. My wish is if the government can
look at it and subsidise public schools that will make a tremendous difference
in our teaching and learning at schools. I would like to give a big thank you
for this golden opportunity they gave us.
An
innovative and interesting approach to teaching these valued skills! I have
found the presentation to be eye opening and challenging. It is a deviation from
the usual methodology and I am excited at the potential it could have for our
second language learners.
Very
impressed with the program and can really see the benefits and merits thereby. I
however like to become more involved with the actual implementation thereby
truly evaluate effectively! Really felt that I needed more time to actually get
the grips of the program. More activities would have been appreciated. On the
whole I am quit excited and want to advocate the use of this program with some
of the schools I work with.
Extremely
educational and fascinating. I have learnt a lot in these two days. I look
forward to using my new THRASS skills in the classroom. I enjoyed the course and
it was done so well, Laola made it very enjoyable! My attention was captured
from start to end.
Really
enjoyable. It was great learning a different angle to teach reading in the
classroom. I wish we could have gone into more depth and learnt more ways and
examples of teaching!
Laola is a
dynamic presenter with a very approachable, friendly disposition. This made the
course enjoyable and I felt free to participate. There was clarity in her
presentation and she handled all questions very efficiently. She is obviously
highly knowledgeable in her field. I do feel somewhat apprehensive about the
implementation of THRASS. We will take it one step at a time!
Very
interesting and useful. This whole THRASS system is fascinating and very
educationally valuable. I can’t wait to use it in the classroom.
Very
beneficial and valuable to my education. It has broadened my view on teaching,
reading and writing in the early years. Education should be constantly evolving
and progressive. THRASS is definitely the way forward.
Very helpful
in increasing our knowledge. It challenges our old ways of thinking and old
methods that have been taught and used. The materials received are very helpful
in getting us started. Laola was very energetic and made this course fun and
made everyone wanting to learn and participate. The colours on the charts are
well chosen and make it easier for the children.
Most
interesting as I have never done phonics before. Don’t feel confident enough to
teach using this approach, but enough to encourage teachers who are using it. I
would like to have seen teachers using it. Thank you for a most enthusiastic
presentation.
A dynamic
presentation! Thought provoking and active involvement rather intriguing.
Very
interesting, understandable and simple. I enjoyed the two days of training. I am
definitely going to use this method of teaching. Our instructor was well
equipped and able to answer our questions. It is a new way forward.
It really
was an eye opener to attend such a workshop. I realised the sounds I never knew
before. This is going to help our children a lot! Keep it up!
THRASS has
really broadened my understanding of the English language. It has made me
realise that there is so much more to learn and even though I am an adult there
is so much out there and that the world is our oyster. I truly believe to read
is to learn and to learn is to live.
The THRASS
workshop has been very informative. I have benefited from this workshop.
This
training course was absolutely brilliant and well presented! Very interesting
and makes a lot of sense to use THRASS in schools.
I really
enjoyed this. I know that learners will enjoy it as they can be very active;
with them being active they learn and remember more. I really think this course
should be held over a longer period, so we can go in depth a little more. She
was very interesting to listen to and kept our attention.
Exciting,
dynamic, well presented! And all round brilliant. Special thanks to Laola, Leroy
and Nick!
THRASS has
been a breath of fresh air to our schooling system. Initially there will be a
trial and error method until perfection is reached. However the system
introduced makes recognising reading and writing words more logical in terms of
sounds and recognition of actual words. I am sure it will be beneficial to all
learners in all grades. Laola has been a dynamic presenter and her instructions
were well received and digested. Thank you to ABSA for this opportunity.
Very dynamic
and interesting! Will definitely be exciting to teach, especially to second
language learners! The Sing-a-Longs are definitely going to help learners to
learn to read and pronounce words. It was certainly an eye opener for me to
learn the 44 phonemes.
Laola, an
excellent job done! Well done! Very informative. The facilitator is dynamic,
energetic and knowledgeable of the contents of THRASS. Was a privilege to attend
this two day workshop as we have learnt a great deal which we will impart on our
learners who will be the real beneficiaries of this program! Thank you to the
THRASS team and thank you to ABSA for sponsoring our school with this delightful
program. May God richly bless you for this gift you have given us.
I thoroughly
enjoyed the presentation. It was amazing to see just how dynamic this program
can be. I enjoyed the interaction and gained a wealth of knowledge from
students, peers as well as Laola! I can’t wait to start this program with my
learners. Thank you to ABSA for this opportunity and to Laola for explaining the
program, which was done so well. It was very much enjoyed and educational as
well!
A dynamic
presenter. I enjoyed her step by step methods. It was quite easy to grasp. The
resources used were excellent! Laola was always willing to answer questions. She
was clear, concise and very dedicated. She always had my full attention. Thank
you Laola for an extremely informative presentation, you are an inspiration to
all learners and educators.
The
presentation: Energetic, clear although the trainer sometimes spoke to fast for
second language speakers. Good response to questions could have been a bit more
interactive, active, audience centred at times. Technology: Pity the interactive
features did not work, though this was out of the trainer’s control. Good
display of materials. Thank you for the resources. Methodology: As a method for
teaching phonics, challenged traditional approaches quite fundamentally and the
trainer dealt with questions about this. As a method of teaching and reading,
focuses on word level work, and did not sufficiently situate this in context of
reading as a meaning, make up activity. I fear that the focus on a methodology
for phonics could undermine efforts to get teachers to approach reading.
Lovely
course, dynamic and interactive presentation! I am passionate about the teaching
of reading and I am certain that THRASS will help reach the high levels of
illiteracy we face in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
I am eagerly
following developments in schools. I intend to study all material provided in
the course carefully and look at how best it can be implemented at Kwa-Zulu
Natal schools.
Fantastic
course! I enjoyed the THRASS workshop tremendously. Laola you have enriched me
and extended my knowledge. I am now going to present exciting lessons to my
learners, thanks to you and THRASS. Thank you to ABSA for the sponsorship. God
Bless!
A well
presented course. The facilitator was excellent and highly approachable and
knowledgeable about THRASS. Thanks to ABSA for the sponsorship!
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