{"id":6147,"date":"2022-05-03T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gng.org\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:46:50","slug":"people-behind-the-mission-nada-almonthery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/2022\/05\/03\/people-behind-the-mission-nada-almonthery\/","title":{"rendered":"People Behind the Mission: Nada Almonthery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cAs a Fulbrighter, I feel that there is a lot of knowledge I have gained that I need to share with my country.\u201d This was the mindset Nada Almonthery brought back to Iraq from the six-week Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement program she attended in the United States in 2020. Unfortunately, COVID-19 struck the world soon after her return to Baghdad, leaving schools closed and little opportunity for her to apply the teaching skills she developed overseas.<\/p>\n

After the world started opening up again in 2021, Nada attended a virtual global teaching dialogue where she was introduced to Global Nomads Group. By then Nada was teaching English again, this time at the Al Mutamayzeen High School for Distinguished Boys in Baghdad. Her 15 and 16-year-old students were learning high-level science and mathematics taught in English. Nada\u2019s task was to help them better master the written and spoken language outside of these technical fields.<\/p>\n

Traditional Iraq teaching methods didn\u2019t often engage students. \u201cWe used to stand up just like a tutor at university and just give a lecture,\u201d Nada says. \u201cWe realized that this does not work with language learning; we needed to change our mentality and the way that we deal with our students.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nada and her English class at Al Mutamayzeen High School for Distinguished Boys in Baghdad.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nada decided a more engaged approach would allow students to immerse themselves in new thoughts and concepts in English. \u201cWe moved to a communicative approach with new material, where we are teaching our students in a real-life context.\u201d<\/p>\n

Global Nomads Group\u2019s Student to World program fit this new approach perfectly. In October her students were given a choice of topic \u2013 such as art in action, sports, and women\u2019s rights \u2013 and wrote a series of personal essays exploring that topic from a personal perspective, a community perspective, and a global perspective. Finally, the students presented a problem related to their chosen theme and wrote about possible solutions based on what they learned.<\/p>\n

The program Nada led was so successful that the US State Department recognized its impact. On February 11, 2022, U.S. Embassy Public Affairs Officer Daniel Ernst presented certificates to alumni of the \u201cStudent to World\u201d creative writing course at a ceremony in Baghdad.<\/p>\n

Certificates and awards are certainly impressive, but ultimately Global Nomads Group\u2019s goal is to broaden students\u2019 perspectives and challenge the assumptions they hold about one another. Nada thinks we achieved that.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor this semester my students would like to write about overcoming bias and mental health. These issues are more complex than the first group,\u201d Nada says, beaming with pride. \u201cI feel that my students now have high critical thinking issues that they would like to write about. When we talk about these two topics, this is something huge for teenagers, especially in Iraq!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAs a Fulbrighter, I feel that there is a lot of knowledge I have gained that I need to share with my country.\u201d This was the mindset Nada Almonthery brought back to Iraq from the six-week Fulbright Teaching Excellence and Achievement program she attended in the United States in 2020. Unfortunately, COVID-19 struck the world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gng.org\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}