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• Books for Kazakh Students

  A Peace Corps volunteer in Kyzylorda is raising money for books for his students at the Kyzylzhar Secondary School. Check out his fundraising page for details and screenshots of the current textbooks they are trying to replace.

  11/06/11 • (Comments Off on Books for Kazakh Students)

• How Do you Say “Know Thyself” in Kazakh?

  Sara Nazarbayeva, the wife of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, had her first book presented the other day, a first among First Ladies in the post-Soviet space. The book is not a history of Kazakhstan or a biography or memoir, as her husband’s books have been. Instead Philosophy of Love presents her methods of self-awareness and recognition. […]

  6/26/11 • (Comments Off on How Do you Say “Know Thyself” in Kazakh?)

• Students Are Chewing More Pencils

  The national school leaving exam (ENT or NUT) will be held this year in the first ten days of June. This is the time of year when high school students get nervous as their ENT scores will determine whether they get into university, which universities they can go to, and how much government aid they […]

  5/20/11 • (Comments Off on Students Are Chewing More Pencils)

• Technology for Education

  One of the things I’ve been trying to do as an educational consultant here is teach teachers to use technology, but in a smart way. I’ve become less of a fan of Smartboards or Active whiteboards here because they’ve been implemented in most classrooms like slightly more convenient projectors. The ability to use pens to […]

  4/03/11 • (Comments Off on Technology for Education)

• Education System in Kazakhstan

  Another nice post I picked up from the Peace Corps Volunteers in Kazakhstan blog feed. This one is an end of summer post, but I thought the bit on how directors of colleges see their teachers as a workforce was interesting. One of the big problems I was loath to face was the situation at […]

  10/21/10 • (1)

• Second Grader’s Case Thrown Out

  An update on my post, Second Grader Sues Ministry. Apparently, the filing was rejected although I can’t find news of this online. However in searching, I found a report on Khabar news and this follow up Book publisher at fault [RU]. Apparently the Ministry of Education never approved this book. The publisher has admitted that […]

  8/04/10 • (3)

• 1 Sept Still First Day of School

  Despite the fact that next winter the Asian Winter Games will be held in Kazakhstan, Almaty education officials say the school year will start on 1 Sept as always. Rumors that the school year would start early so that winter vacation would coincide with the games (or so that pupil would have a longer winter […]

  7/28/10 • (Comments Off on 1 Sept Still First Day of School)

• Second Grader Sues Ministry of Education

  According to Zakon.kz, a boy in second grade is suing the Ministry of Education for psychological damage because his textbook on road safety contains many grammatical and spelling mistakes as well as useless or confusing information. Alikhan Zhumanov of Astana has filed a suit for 100 million tenge for moral and mental damage. The father, […]

  7/25/10 • (2)

• Jeopardy Part II

  I wrote earlier about one of my educational projects with an ESL teacher here in Kazakhstan. We designed an Jeopardy game in .html to have some fun with kids. Well, implementation didn’t go so well. A lot of teachers found it hard to work with because you had to edit so many different files and […]

  11/07/09 • (Comments Off on Jeopardy Part II)