{"id":40168,"date":"2019-08-15T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/when-everything-changed\/"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:35:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:35:05","slug":"when-everything-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/when-everything-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"When Everything Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The schoolyard bustles as students hurry back to class. The mid-morning break is almost over, and 19-year-old Christian Nsengiyumva is one of the first to be found sitting attentively at his desk. He sits proudly in his bright blue uniform, waiting for class to resume.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe curriculum changed when I was in Senior 3,\u201d recalls Christian. \u201cIt used to be very boring; the teachers just talked the entire day, and we did not have any activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32708 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4g7a9348.jpg\" alt=\"Christian Nsengiyumva stands in the school yard during morning break\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Christian is in Senior 6 now, his last year of secondary school before he graduates. He has been studying under Rwanda\u2019s new competency-based curriculum for three years, and he feels the difference is palpable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the teachers started working with Vedaste, everything changed,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVedaste helps the teachers interact with each other in groups, practicing activities as if they are the students. They pass these activities on to our classroom, and now we have a lot to do!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32707 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4g7a9240.jpg\" alt=\"Vedaste Muziramacyenga, a teacher-mentor in Rwanda&#039;s Zaza Sector, coaches his fellow teachers on developing student-centred classroom activities.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Vedaste is one of over 830 mentor trainers in Rwanda, working in Christian\u2019s school to train fellow teachers as part of the national School-Based Mentorship Programme. Since 2012, UNICEF has supported this programme to help improve teacher\u2019s teaching and planning skills.<\/p>\n<p>With funding support from the Swiss Committee for UNICEF, mentors receive continuous professional development training to better teach the new competency-based curriculum. Launched in 2016, this new curriculum focuses on individual learning plans and encouraging more interactive classroom activities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32709 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4g7a9212.jpg\" alt=\"Vedaste coaches teachers during a continuous professional development session on designing student-centred activities for Rwandan students.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Exceptional teachers like Vedaste now serve as mentors in their community\u2019s schools, tasked with training their peers on improved lesson plans and better instruction techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Source: UNICEF Rwanda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How one teacher mentor in Rwanda is helping make learning more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2951],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-yonah-nyundo-veronica-houser"],"bylines":[{"id":2951,"name":"Yonah Nyundo &amp; Veronica Houser","slug":"yonah-nyundo-veronica-houser","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2951,"name":"Yonah Nyundo &amp; Veronica Houser","slug":"yonah-nyundo-veronica-houser","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40168"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40168"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}