The aim of the learning project is to illustrate the heroic deeds of the world famous athlete: Haile Gebresellasie from Africa – Ethiopia as role model, and to enable students work in the Student Centred Approach in Pedagogy. Find other great lessons like this one on the Partners in Learning Network (Africa): http://africa.partnersinlearningnetwork.com

1. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
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Authors Girma Mitiku Aleme, Physics Teacher & ICT Club
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(girmamitiku@yahoo.com )
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Description The aim of the learning project is to illustrate the heroic
deeds of the world famous athlete: Haile Gebresellasie from
Africa – Ethiopia as role model, and to enable students work
in the Student Centred Approach in Pedagogy
Learning Areas Collaboration
Levels The Age Level of students participated in the project are 17 &
18 year olds – selected from grade 12
To enable the students develop team spirit, team work &
collaboration when they develop the contents of the website
entitled: ”Haile Gebresellasie - The Most Outstanding Athlete
of the World” and share it to the world via the internet
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Project Overview
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sources , info
Pictures and other
sources, form
MS Word, Powerpoint, Front Page, Macromedia Flash,
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Swish
Champion, Medalia, Winner, 5,000 m, 10,000 m, Marathon,
Cross-country, World Record, Olimpic Record

2. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Teacher Planning and Management
Background and
Planning
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Background & Planning:
•The School:
The school where this Collaboration Project was done
is Menelik II Preparatory High School (comprising of
grade 11 & grade 12 students) located in Arada Sub-
city in the centre of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
•The Teacher:
The Teacher Coordinator of this Collaboration Project
is Girma Mitiku Aleme, a physics teacher & the ICT Club
Coordinator of the school (September 2001 - September
2009), who’s a visionary of capacity building in MS
Application Packages for teachers & students in
Ethiopian high schools, and he’s one of the innovative
teachers who actively participates in National, Regional
& International School Net Projects.
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3. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Planning:
• Project Goals
• The students will be able to apply their basic knowledge of IT and web
page development skills to develop the web pages on the Role Model:
Haile Gebresellasie;
• They’ll be able to develop team spirit, team work and collaboration
among themselves and also develop useful leadership skills or 21
st
century skills
• To make them become Global Citizens by enabling them to share their
knowledge within a group, across groups, and across cultures;
• To develop, on the way, the learners’ English Language , interpersonal

4. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile GebresellasiePlanning:
•The planning and origin of the project
• The project was planned to select a role model and
work a website on that role model in collaboration so
that students will learn from this model to build their
confidence and become good citizens; and on the
way, the website developed can popularize the heroic
deeds of the role model to the world.
• The selected role model is Haile Gebreselassie: The
Most Outstanding Athlete of the World, from Africa –
Ethiopia. The content of the website portrays the birth
history of the athlete, his athletic career, his victories
and what we can learn from the current humanitarian
activities of the athlete besides his talent.
•So to do the website, we’ve used direct interview
method, taking photos and web search methods.

5. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Planning:
• The curriculum context of the project
There’s a close relation b/n the curriculum and the context of the project.
Since the students take IT courses in the Preparatory high schools (grade
11– 12), the relevance of the project was obvious. Also, the main aim of the
current Ethiopian Curriculum as one of its packages for insuring quality
education is encouraging training of pupils in ICT and Science &
Technology.
•The technology context
The students were given a hands-on training on how to design workable
but simple web pages, by the support of UNESCO/IICBA & the British
Council-Ethiopia and they’ve used their skills of basic IT helped by their
teacher coordinator mostly using the Software of Microsoft to design the

6. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Planning:
The project management
Four (2 Females & 2 Males) Interested and competent ICT Club student-
members are selected from grade 12
Hands-on Training on Internet Usage & web designing skills was given to the
students
The necessary documents are collected to satisfy the ’requirement analysis’ to
design the website of the athlete
Direct Interview of the athlete by the students & the teacher coordinator was
done at his office located in Alem Building, Africa Avenue in Addis Ababa.
The Athlete’s Villa/ Castle was visited by the group to learn about the trophies
& medalias collected
The ”Indurance” Film on the athlete was watched by the group.
The website has been designed using all the entry documents and

7. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Classroom Image 1: Team Work & Team Spirit

8. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Classroom Image 2: Collaboration

9. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Teaching Resources
Student Project Overview: The students were required to
perform the following main tasks as active participants:
1. Collect resources for entries to their website through
interview of the athlete, collecting of written documents and
visiting different websites to fulfil the requirement analysis
to design a workable but a simple student website on the
athlete and save it on a CD for review and approval;
2. Use the basic hands-on Practice they’ve had on web page
development & Internet Usage skills to design simple but
workable web pages to demonstrate that the athlete they’re
portraying is really the Most Outstanding world class athlete.
3. Share the knowledge they’ve acquired about the athlete to
their peers within and across groups, and share it to the
global community by uploading their website on to the
internet via temporary free web hosting sites. This step was
optional and was applied only temporarily.

10. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Assessment and Standards
1. The students were selected because they’re
active members of the ICT Club, based on their
results at grade 12, as they were ranking students,
and also because they’ve shown due interest in the
project.
2. In the Web Design & Internet training course, the
trainer has been evaluating them at each step.
3. When the students as a group gather information
for entry to the website, the teacher-coordinator has
evaluated the information gathered whether it fulfills
the “requirement analysis” for entry to the website.
4. Also, after the website is uploaded onto the
internet on the temporary free web hosting site
(www.freewebs.com), feedbacks were collected
from local voluntary viewers and a copy of the
students’ website was sent through the secretary of
the athlete on a CD for the athlete’s own perusal.
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11. The Most Outstanding Athlete of the World:
Haile Gebresellasie
Teacher and School Information
School: Menelik II Preparatory High School, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
Teacher-Coordinator : Girma Mitiku Aleme,
girmamitiku@yahoo.com , Physics Teacher & the ICT Club
Coordinator of the school (September 2001 – September 2009).