This year the class I am in charge of each morning has just 15 students, which is so nice since the past two years I had twice as many. The picture below shows all of the students, along with my junior teachers Abuk and Achol (back row, far left, in white).
My class is the third year at our school but is a grade one level: the children learn English phonics and reading in English, as well as math and social studies. (They learn to read in Dinka, their mother tongue, during the first year, then spend a year learning oral English.)
There are eight boys and seven girls in the class, and, as in previous years, there is quite a wide range of ages, from 8 to 16.
Junior teachers Achol and Abuk, who do their own studies in the afternoon, have made good progress in learning to teach the grade one curriculum. They are able, with supervision and some help, to teach most of the class.
Having Achol and Abuk teach gives me some time to spend in the three Dinka literacy classes. I mentor, encourage and help the local teachers who teach these classes.
My class is the third year at our school but is a grade one level: the children learn English phonics and reading in English, as well as math and social studies. (They learn to read in Dinka, their mother tongue, during the first year, then spend a year learning oral English.)
There are eight boys and seven girls in the class, and, as in previous years, there is quite a wide range of ages, from 8 to 16.
Junior teachers Achol and Abuk, who do their own studies in the afternoon, have made good progress in learning to teach the grade one curriculum. They are able, with supervision and some help, to teach most of the class.
Having Achol and Abuk teach gives me some time to spend in the three Dinka literacy classes. I mentor, encourage and help the local teachers who teach these classes.
Dear Jan, You have a full day. Wonderful that you are investing in the future generation - including some teachers. Blessings, Dale
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