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Last week, as it did a year ago, Montevideo Middle School played host to a group of nine doctoral students from Udon Thani Rajubhat University located in Udorn, Thailand.
The Thai students included K-12 principals, superintendents, professors, supervisors of education at the government level, and K-12 teachers.
The group spent a full morning under the guidance of Principal Brenda Vatthauer learning about American education methods and touring classrooms at MMS.
“They were very interested in classroom instruction and management,” Vatthauer stated in an e-mail.
One doctoral student presented a demonstration in Steve Rohloff’s social studies classroom on the takraw (Thai soccer).
“It resembled playing hackysack in the USA, but much more complex,” wrote Vatthauer.
The visitors left Alex Esparza a gift of a takraw ball for assisting with the demonstration.
The nine students were part of a larger group of 30 Thai students, plus four advisers, enrolled as graduate students at Southwest Minnesota State University for a three-week intensive training in American education. This is the fourth consecutive year SMSU has hosted a delegation of doctoral students from Udon Thani.
As part of their course work at Rajabhat University, 13 of the students are studying the Strategies of Learning Management, while the remaining 17 are learning Educational Administration. This group is the largest that SMSU has ever hosted.
The students will return to Thailand on Nov. 12.
Last week, as it did a year ago, Montevideo Middle School played host to a group of nine doctoral students from Udon Thani Rajubhat University located in Udorn, Thailand.
The Thai students included K-12 principals, superintendents, professors, supervisors of education at the government level, and K-12 teachers.
The group spent a full morning under the guidance of Principal Brenda Vatthauer learning about American education methods and touring classrooms at MMS.
“They were very interested in classroom instruction and management,” Vatthauer stated in an e-mail.
One doctoral student presented a demonstration in Steve Rohloff’s social studies classroom on the takraw (Thai soccer).
“It resembled playing hackysack in the USA, but much more complex,” wrote Vatthauer.
The visitors left Alex Esparza a gift of a takraw ball for assisting with the demonstration.
The nine students were part of a larger group of 30 Thai students, plus four advisers, enrolled as graduate students at Southwest Minnesota State University for a three-week intensive training in American education. This is the fourth consecutive year SMSU has hosted a delegation of doctoral students from Udon Thani.
As part of their course work at Rajabhat University, 13 of the students are studying the Strategies of Learning Management, while the remaining 17 are learning Educational Administration. This group is the largest that SMSU has ever hosted.
The students will return to Thailand on Nov. 12.
