Jun 26, 2008

TIA: mid week and thur

This year's workshops are full of excitement and fun with lots of active activities, hot discussions and experiences. The seminar has now gone through the mid week with four cases already discussed. Wednesday was about the problem of using participatory m,ethods while teaching a large class, assume having a hundred and fifty young people making all that hell of noise and the discipline issues connected to that. Mr. Nzao presented using a rather vague case study as I may think and a lot of examples.
Today it was Sr. Augustina's turn to look at the problem that we all face in our classes of having students with varied learning speeds, cognitions, style etc. The day started off with a "Learning style questionnaire" which I scored RED meaning I am some sort of independent, unstructured, practical, self directed learner which I assume I possess. It was then followed by a discussion using a method called "discussion carousel". We had some reflection session and some teachers including me gave their experiences in the schools they are from. Most including me totally disagreed to the idea of streaming*grouping with very interesting account from Rev. Uwoya
I would say today wasn't as bored as it was yesterday that we witnessed some participant snoring off!!
During the evening session we were dealing with SoW, Lesson plans and teaching and learning aids. It reminded me of Mrs. Hellen and Miss Sussanah, I missed them both. I'm doing a form two topic "Water management for economic development" specifically on the sub-topic "Riveter Basin Development" of which I made a map for students simulation and role play activities on decision making,
The day is ended with smile on my face remembering the Tuesdays I had making models, posters, creating role plays or learning how to use a digital camera with Erick.
One thing I do not understand is the college website has got virtual nothing regarding this ongoing event. Can someone help me do something about it?

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