2025, let's not only survive but also thrive and come alive -I think this should be a cool motto for the year. It is a bit lengthy, I'm open to making it shorter, maybe just thrive and come alive, as an ultimate goal? Unfortunately, the reality for most is that surviving is the main hurdle... Continue Reading →
Teaching Teachers: The Struggles of Studying Education While Teaching
Last year, I decided to go back to school to upgrade my qualifications in education. This year, I became a BEd Honours student, specialising in Mathematics Education, which makes sense with me being a mathematics teacher. I've been doing it via the purple university situated in North West. I heard a lot of good things... Continue Reading →
The Teacher’s Dilemma: Living with the Contradictions in Education
Whenever two or more teachers are gathered, there will no doubt be a venting session. It is just something that happens. Sure, at first, it starts with a lot of pent-up energy that needs a form of release, but over time, it turns into some form of building one another up and sharing good ideas.... Continue Reading →
Teacher Appreciation: An Inside Job
Annually, on October 5th, it is International Teacher's Day. Interestingly, what I notice every year, since becoming a teacher in 2022, is that teachers (and we can add education NGOs/NPOs, because usually former teachers work there) all over social media celebrate each other more that the rest of the world actually knows about and appreciates... Continue Reading →
Discipline doesn’t mean shhh …
I read somewhere a long time ago that saying, "keep quiet" vs. "quiet down" is not the same thing. In your classroom, you need to let your learners know exactly what you mean. Do you want complete silence, or do you just want a general awareness of the volumes of their voices? As teachers, we... Continue Reading →