February 23-24, 2015, the U. S. Embassy trained 27 English teachers, advisors, and inspectors of the Boucle du Mouhoun Region in Dédougou. 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 covered 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 Dedougou teach 10,340 students in 20 communities in the Boucle du Mounhoun Region, and this workshop provided valuable in-service training for them to improve their teaching practice. As one teacher from Gassan pointed out, “I plan to change the way of planning my lesson and the way of doing assessments so that I will have the right feedback from my students.”
