<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>World Teachers’ Day | Eneza Education</title> <atom:link href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/tag/world-teachers-day/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com</link> <description>Spreading Education Everywhere</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:50:36 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5</generator> <image> <url>https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-03_KP_icon-32x32.jpg</url> <title>World Teachers’ Day | Eneza Education</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>World Teachers Day- Why I became a teacher.</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/05/world-teachers-day-why-i-became-a-teacher/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/05/world-teachers-day-why-i-became-a-teacher/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 13:50:36 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Eneza Media]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Makafui Dzidzienyo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World Teachers' Day]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://enezaeducation.com/?p=10258</guid> <description><![CDATA[World teachers day wouldn’t be complete without a post by one of our teachers from Ghana. “I can’t teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” I share this ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/05/world-teachers-day-why-i-became-a-teacher/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10260" style="width: 691px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Teachers.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10260" class=" wp-image-10260" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Teachers-300x155.jpg" alt="World Teachers Day" width="681" height="354" srcset="https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Teachers-300x155.jpg 300w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Teachers-100x52.jpg 100w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Teachers.jpg 372w" sizes="(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10260" class="wp-caption-text">Photo credit</p></div> <p>World teachers day wouldn’t be complete without a post by one of our teachers from Ghana.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I can’t teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.” I share this quote of Socrates because it brilliantly captures my way of impacting knowledge – teaching. I have always loved the idea of being a teacher right after Senior High School. I volunteered to teach a couple of times while studying at the university, in my quest to help the Junior High School students in my community prepare and pass their basic exams to enter Senior High. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a young graduate of Physics, one would think that the next path for me would be to enter the health industry considering I majored in Medical Physics. I rather took up the challenge to join Teach For Ghana, a non-governmental Organisation that recruits Ghana’s most promising individuals as part of a two-year fellowship to lead change in educational outcomes: bridging the educational inequity gap. I committed to teach in an underserved school in Ghana as a Junior High School Mathematics teacher. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being a teacher in the educational system, living in the community I teach and also engaging with stakeholders in the community to effect the change I want to see, was the greatest profession and decision I had ever taken on my own and it was a promising yet challenging one. My new profession gave me the opportunity to put myself in my students’ shoes and think like them in order to address their problems without judgment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching gave me a platform to nurture, inspire and empower the future of my country.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching gave me a commitment to push for Women Empowerment in my community through providing a safe space for the teenage girls in the community I served to address issues and setbacks they face as young and budding young ladies as far as their gender was in question.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching made me feel fulfilled.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching gave me an opportunity to showcase my ability to work with diverse groups to achieve rigorous and transformational outcomes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching took me places, very few professions, if any, would have.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me share with you some few takeaways from my participation and facilitation in the Inaugural International Teacher’s Forum held from the 27-29th of August 2018 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From a teacher perspective, there is a natural tendency to feel like the school system cannot be improved. We need help, from parents, students, and the key stakeholders of the educational system. However, Andreas Schleicher, The Director for Education and Skills, OECD shared the following points in his keynote speech during the Forum on what the educational systems need to focus on:</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Preparation time for teachers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Observation, Evaluation and giving and accepting feedback among teachers</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Short but efficient and effective use of contact hours</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">More focus on content and less focus on assessment.</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Also, if a change will happen, it has to come from within, then other parties would then be motivated and interested to play a part.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As this year’s World Teacher’s Day theme goes, “The right to education means the right to a qualified teacher”, they go hand in hand. I will use this opportunity to call on all stakeholders to urgently address the “teacher gap” in the Ghanaian educational sector for the benefit of the future of this country. Also to all the incredible teachers who stay up all night planning what to teach, how to manage behaviors and what best practices to use in the classroom, I say Ayekoo! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Happy Teacher’s Day!!!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Makafui Dzidzienyo</span></p> <p><strong>About the author:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Makafui Gracious Dzidzienyo is a Content Associate with Eneza Education, Ghana. Before joining Eneza Education, Makafui was a Teach For Ghana Fellow for two years in an underserved community in the Volta Region of Ghana as a Junior High School Mathematics teacher to address some of the most pressing issues facing the educational system in Ghana. Makafui demonstrates a strong orientation towards establishing environments that will lead to equitable outcomes and develop the necessary mindsets to help each student thrive outside the class.</span></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2018/10/05/world-teachers-day-why-i-became-a-teacher/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Why failure should never be used to break students.</title> <link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2016/10/04/why-failure-should-never-be-used-to-break-students/</link> <comments>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2016/10/04/why-failure-should-never-be-used-to-break-students/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:33:12 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Education in Kenya]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carolyne Wanjiku]]></category> <category><![CDATA[education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Encouragement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Teachers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World Teachers' Day]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://enezaeducation.com/?p=7720</guid> <description><![CDATA[When I joined form one, I can clearly remember what a good student I was. The first year, I never went below position 20 out of over 200 students. I ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2016/10/04/why-failure-should-never-be-used-to-break-students/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_7721" style="width: 467px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/parents-11-tips-help-teen-transform-failing-grades.jpg"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7721" class=" wp-image-7721" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/parents-11-tips-help-teen-transform-failing-grades-300x200.jpg" alt="Image courtesy " width="457" height="304" srcset="https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/parents-11-tips-help-teen-transform-failing-grades-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/parents-11-tips-help-teen-transform-failing-grades.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-7721" class="wp-caption-text"><a href="http://www.collegexpress.com/counselors-and-parents/parents/articles/high-school-journey/11-tips-help-your-teen-transform-failing-grades-academic-success/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Image courtesy</a></p></div> <p>When I joined form one, I can clearly remember what a good student I was. The first year, I never went below position 20 out of over 200 students. I used to run home to my mother every other closing date with my report card and looking into her eyes I always saw how proud she felt. I never knew that the joy, those proud eyes, that love and motivation I got from her would ever come to an end.</p> <p>I still remember that fateful day during the August holiday while in form two, they had a family meeting. She woke up very early to prepare for the meeting. I had never seen her looking as beautiful as she looked that day. We had chitchat as she dressed up. She promised to bring us lots of goodies and we promised to be at our best behavior. She kissed us goodbye and left. My siblings and I ran to the window and watched until she was out of site. Who knew it was last time we’d see her. Who knew?</p> <p>To cut the long sad story short, that was the end of me. I lost myself. Back to school, I could not concentrate. My grades dropped terribly. I changed for the worst. I felt as if I had nothing else to lose or live for. I was always out of school on suspension; I deliberately did wrong to upset everyone. I was fighting everyone; I wanted the world to hurt as much as I was. I felt no one understood my pain.</p> <p>When we were graduating to form four, the teachers decided to group us into three different classes; the FIRST class (for the bright top students), SECOND class for the (average performers) and THIRD class (for the poorest). Being index number 119, I obviously fell to the third class. Tough luck ha-ha. Not that I cared anyway at the moment.</p> <p>It all begun to matter to us, when all the teachers started to treat us as if we never mattered. It’s like we didn’t exist. Our class was at a hidden corridor, the teachers would miss almost every lesson. They had already considered us hopeless, why sweat over people like us?</p> <p>Even our fellow students used to look at us as if we had problems. Maybe we did. It affected us, most of us got used to being discriminated, and they actually started to believe they were failures. Deep down I knew I was not a failure but I was too consumed in my own world to want to do anything about it.</p> <p>One day our CRE teacher came to class and asked us a question which we were all unable to answer. She made us stand up and started hauling insults to us. “You are very useless, fools, all you’re good at is making noise in the class. You will never succeed. I don’t know why am wasting my time and energy on people like you. You are a hopeless bunch”. Those words hit me so hard. I was not hopeless, at least not because she said I was. I cried that whole night, I was not a failure nor was I hopeless. That’s not want my mum would want me to be.</p> <p>I hated the teacher for that, but her words changed me. I was tired of being looked at as a failure. I had to prove to her and the whole school that I wasn’t a failure. I wasn’t useless. Just because I wasn’t an index one, it didn’t mean my downfall. I put my best foot forward. I believed I could turn things around. I had to.</p> <p>Things took a different turn. I came from number 119 to number 36 at the end term exam, then number 18, I kept rising. I still remember with a smile how the teacher used me as a testimony during our prayer day. And yes I made it, from the THIRD CLASS, I became among top ten students, and among the seven who made it to the university.</p> <p>Teachers should be the first people to encourage the students. Many students are going through difficulties, family separations, divorce, sexual harassment, low self-esteem, loss of close family members, poverty, diseases, you name it. We should be there to listen, understand, empathize and work on their healing and restoration. Don’t be the one to break them. As teachers, parents or guardians, what are we doing to encourage these children? Are we building them or breaking them further?</p> <p><strong>About the author</strong></p> <p><em>Carolyne Wanjiku is our marketing intern. She holds a Bachelor of Education, and has a background in teaching Maths and Science to primary school Students.</em></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2016/10/04/why-failure-should-never-be-used-to-break-students/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>