Syrian teacher tells about school life at Jordan refugee camp

A Syrian teacher has told how progress is being made in the efforts to get refugee children in Jordan into school and learning.

Mohammed teaches primary and secondary children at the massive Zaatari camp, the second largest in the country.

He is the fourth teacher to be featured in the 10-week UNESCO series #TeacherTuesday. It is a social media campaign following on from the publication of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2013/14,聽which analysed the hurdles teachers have to overcome to provide quality education to their students.

Mohammed has been in Jordan for eight months and got a teaching job four months ago.

He said: 国产视频淚 was teaching in my school in Syria until it was completely destroyed, then I moved to another school.

国产视频淥nce all schools in the area had been completely destroyed, then I left and came to Zaatari. The majority of teachers left Syria to come to Zaatari but some have stayed doing humanitarian work for families there. And some keep teaching the students in villages.国产视频�

Mohammed said the majority of children in the camp are in school. There are 50,000 children in the camp in total 国产视频� half of them are school aged and 20,000 are currently registered with a school.

He pointed out the major problem facing the Zaatari schools is lack of supplies.

He explained: 国产视频淥ur main problems are the shortage of text books 国产视频� we need boards and markers.国产视频�

He added: 国产视频淭he school doesn国产视频檛 look like a school. I want a yard where children can play. We want our school to look like other schools.国产视频�

#TeacherTuesday is running for 10 Tuesdays from February 25 国产视频� sharing the stories, motivations and challenges facing educators across the globe.

You can find out more about #TeacherTuesday here.

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