February 26-27, 2015, the U. S. Embassy trained 48 English teachers, advisors, and inspectors of the Central West Region in Koudougou. In support of its goals for economic growth and development through education, the U. S. Embassy Ouagadougou is carrying out a country-wide tour providing training to English teaching professionals in all 13 regions of Burkina Faso during the 2014/2015 academic year. English Program Specialist Lynn Hanson Ouédraogo and English Language Fellows Bonnie Bailey and Juan Reyes from the USA are training teachers to better align learning objectives, lesson activities, and assessments to promote improved English proficiency outcomes for secondary school students. The Intelligence Tour started in Gaoua, Banfora, and Bobo-Dioulasso in December 2014 and continued to Ouahigouya, Kaya, and Dori in January 2015. The participants of this two-day workshop in Koudougou teach 14,798 students in 23 communities in the Central West Region. This workshop provided valuable in-service training for these teachers who are being inspired to change their teaching practice as evidenced by the comments of a teacher from Siglé who said, “I will put the learners (students) at the center of the learning process and keep on getting trained myself to give the best of myself.”
