US embassy sponsors Pak teachers

Islamabad

The US Embassy here sponsored five teachers’ travel to an education conference in Nepal, where they represented Pakistan and shared their teaching expertise with other teachers from all over the world. The educators gave presentations about teaching critical thinking skills and computer-assisted language learning at the 21st international conference of the Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA) in Kathmandu.

Upon returning to Pakistan, the teachers met with US Embassy Regional English Language Officer Jen MacArthur to discuss preparing similar workshops for their own institutions and communities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, and Sindh.

“The NELTA conference gave me the chance to share my unique teaching experience with other professionals,” said Qurratulain Najeeb, a lecturer at the National College of Business Administration and Economics in Bahawalpur.  “I got to know how they teach English and how I can learn from it and use this in my context here in Pakistan.”