London has always been a place where TFB supporters unite around the cause for quality education for every child! This year we are back with an exciting and thought-provoking quiz night on December 6 in London! Thе quiz will test your knowledge about sports, education and pop culture. Curiosity has no age, occupation, or a day off. Besides, quizzes are still the best brain exercise.
Our big goal is to support Teach For Bulgaria’s inspiring project to design Bulgarian language educational resources for primary school students whose mother tongue is not Bulgarian. Here you can support this project ahead of the quiz night.
Teach For Bulgaria teachers work with students whose mother tongue is not Bulgarian in almost all of our partner schools. The majority of these students are Roma, but our participants also work with refugees and with children whose mother tongue is Turkish. They agree that almost all of their students whose mother tongue is not Bulgarian need additional Bulgarian language training.All subjects are taught in Bulgarian, so more often than not poor Bulgarian language skills cause children to lag behind their peers. These students have difficulties mastering their lessons and learning new skills, they feel misunderstood and unsuccessful. This often puts them at a great risk of dropping out. And besides, a good enough methodology for teaching Bulgarian as a second language hasn’t even been developed yet. This presents a serious challenge for teachers who work with bilingual students. There is a complete lack of educational resources for additional language training and support tailored to the specifics of our Bulgarian context.
This is why there is an urgent need to develop effective specialized concepts and educational resources for teachers who work with bilingual children.
N.B. At the initiative of our ambassador Nguyen Le and his Bulgarian colleagues at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD (via its Community Initiative) has agreed in principle to support TFB's efforts by matching all donations from private donors for this fundraiser, up to EUR 50,000. The funds will be employed by TFB and our partners from EducArt to develop a specialized methodology for teaching Bulgarian to children in public schools not yet fluent in the language.
Come and support this project!
When?
December 6, 2019, at 6 p.m.
Where?
Rockefeller Building 337 David Sacks, Medical School Building, UCL, London, UK
The quiz will be in English, so feel free to invite your English-speaking friends.
Registration is required: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11fcNwSXFn2P-2v_qg6Zr_DcUkb3MsW6ZpRS6gNHvnUs/edit.
