The Master of Arts students of the course titled “ENG 649: Materials Design and Evaluation” of Spring 2023 organized two workshops at the Department of English and Humanities of BRAC University in March.
The first workshop titled “Children’s Art and Storytelling Workshop” was a collaboration with Jaago Foundation. Held on 18 March 2023, the daylong workshop invited 10 underprivileged students from Jaago Foundation School Banani, Korail for writing a story and drawing pictures for a wall magazine. At the end of the workshop, the students were asked to present their stories to an audience. Three stories from the wall magazine were selected to be published in Resonance, a creative writing magazine of the department.
The second workshop titled “Developing Materials for Rohingya Learners” was held on 25 March 2023. In this workshop, Golam Benyeaz Ibney Shohid and Jasia Mahjabin Haque, former material developers of Brac, were invited as facilitators. They showed the course students how to design teachers’ manuals for any material.