Liisa Ilomäki

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #8 Small stories from Arusha 8 About Educational Heroes and Other Memorable Moments There’s still more to tell about Tanzania, even though our mentor training on digital technology for teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing ended a week ago. My travel companion and I decided to stay […]

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #7 Small stories from Arusha 7 Bittersweet and Uplifting Moments The final day of the two-week mentor training took place on Friday, March 21st. It had truly been an intensive crash course on the use of digital technology applications. Now, it’s up to the mentors to start using the

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #6 Small stories from Arusha 6 Networking Rules!   The second-to-last training day of the two-week FSEA mentoring course. Behind us are over one and a half weeks of intensive training, and it’s definitely been quite a workload for both participants and trainers. I myself am in a kind

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #5   Small Stories from Arusha 5   I Became a Believer in Inclusion   Today’s mentor training focused more on special education. The entire Arusha project has, for the past 12 years, been centered around special education, particularly on developing learning opportunities for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. In

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #4   Small Stories from Arusha 4 Arusha Ladies How would anything get done without female energy? This time, I thought I’d introduce the women involved in our project in the blog. Among the mentors participating in the training, there are four women and ten men. We must start

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #3 Small Stories from Arusha 3 Online – Offline   Greetings from Arusha! You learn all kinds of things just by being in a different environment. For instance, I have become more aware of my own dependence on online activities. When the electricity goes out at our apartment here

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #2   Small Stories from the Arusha, Especially Project in March 2025 Learning Problem-Solving   In the previous story, I talked about the first mentoring day for Tanzanian teachers. Today, I’ll share a story from the second day. The highlight of the afternoon was, of course, the distribution of

Go Back March, 2025 – Update #1   Small Stories from the Arusha, Especially Project in March 2025 On March 10th, FSEA’s newest four-year development project for the education of deaf and hard-of-hearing students was launched. This time, the focus is on strengthening the expertise of digital technology mentor teachers in three secondary schools. The