Blog — The Hands Up Project

Learning Round the Edges

This week's post is by long term Hands up Project volunteer, Sara Wood. Over to you Sara....

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Teaching moves: How teachers scaffold learning

This weeks post is by Hands up Project trustee, Scott Thornbury

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Haneen Khaled's framework for remote theatre - from the students' perspective

Drama is not just a tool. It’s the perfect way to help the students dig deep inside themselves to identify their identities, set up their goals in life and have dreams . I was inspired by this and by the idea of remote theatre (performing plays through simple video-conferencing tools to other parts of the world).

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Creative and Engaging storytelling for Teachers

This week, we have a post from long standing HUP volunteer in Gaza, Heba Hamouda. Heba completed her PhD research on digital storytelling last year, and recently took part in David Heathfield's online course - 'Creative and Engaging storytelling for Teachers'

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Activities for new classes

Some good news... After almost five months off school, children in Gaza are going back to their classes tomorrow. There's going to be a period of revision to catch up on everything that they've missed during lockdown and then the regular semester will start again at the end of August.

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Long live SaturPLAY live!

This weeks post is by long term HUP volunteer and drama specialist in Gaza, Haneen Khaled. Over to you Haneen....

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The Aim of the Game

This week we have a post from one of the latest people to join the Hands Up Project's ever expanding team of volunteers around the world - Anya Shaw. Over to you Anya....

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The Simon Greenall - Hands Up Project Scholarship for IATEFL 2021

The late lamented Simon Greenall, as well as being one of the authors of English for Palestine, was a huge supporter of ELT in general in Palestine, and in particular of The Hands Up Project.

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Students versus teachers

This week's post is by Becca Young of Virginia, USA. She's been a HUP volunteer since July 2019 and currently does a Facebook live storytelling event at 5pm Palestine time every Tuesday.

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A picture's worth a thousand words

This week we have a post from Sue Piper. Sue's been volunteering with Hands Up for two months now and does a wonderful Facebook live storytelling session for younger kids at 10 am Palestine time every Wednesday. Over to you Sue!

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Zoom in and meet the world.

This week we have a post from my very good friend, our advisory board member in Gaza and UNRWA education specialist, Rida Thabet.

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Every story tells a picture..

This week we have a post from Hands Up Project volunteer and professional storyteller, Michael Loader. Over to you Michael.....

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Going with the flow...

'When people are aligned to their purpose, when the gap between values and behaviours closes, what people experience is a stream of ease' (Lewin 2000)

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Humanity and love in the time of COVID-19

This week we have a blog post written by long term Hands Up Project volunteer, Ashraf Kuhail. Ashraf is a very committed member of our HUP community, a brilliant teacher (and newly appointed supervisor) and one of my best friends in Gaza.

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From your story to our story

Last week we published the names of the 18 winning plays of this year's remote theatre competition. This week we're publishing this very moving piece by Ana Begovic, one of the 70 judges who had the unenviable task of having to choose her favourite plays.

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The winners of the 2020 Remote theatre competition

After much deliberation and extremely difficult decisions by the panel of over 70 judges from around the world, we are very proud to announce the 18 winners (listed alphabetically) of the 2020 Hands Up Project remote theatre competition. We would like to offer our huge congratulations to them all.

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Read! Write! Act!

So finally in the midst of a world crisis, and after much deliberation and agonising decisions by the judges from around the world we are almost ready to announce the 18 winning plays of the 2019/2020 Hands Up Project Playwriting competition.

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Locked down but Looking Out..

There's no doubt that the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic has thrown education around the world into chaos. According to UNESCO, 85% of the world's learners are not going to school right now. This means more than one and a half billion children are stuck at home!But as we know, out of chaos there can sometimes arise incredible creativity, especially where Palestine is concerned.

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