Yours In Education

Check out @ThangoLee’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ThangoLee/status/989753077228912642?s=09 My takeaway from HollyClarks keynote. #Sawbona. May we recognise the people in our midst beyond saying the words but through follow up action. I am that teacher who ends up teaching science, history and other subjects because all we do is interrelated. Interrelatedness is a necessity. It is important that we teach what can be used beyond the wall confines. #beyondthetextbooks

Introducing educators and other professional in education to the Google Suite For Education with a special focus on Google Drive, Sites, Blogger for creating educational portfolios; a reference of work done in school and looking beyond that for students and going above the average CV for professionals... One of the most powerful things you can do is giving students a voice; that they can be agents of change NOW, there is more to the textbook ; THEIR OWN WILLINGNESS TO GO BEYO ND IS EVERYTHING... # onbeingasocialeducator Speeches, reflectives and narratives, poetry and dramas...and more; all that end with a mark(mostly) How do we go beyond the RED pen and 100%'s? What can we do to teach progressively? ...stretching the norms... Can we own our 'learning'?

wept, stopped and read and... #storiesofourown One Goat is Enough was recommended to me by a dear student. ¨I know you, I've heard you talk; I think you might enjoy this or hate this, have a read¨, she said. And I did, all... It takes one through a lot of emotions: anger, sadness, frustration, disappointment, pride.... All these emotions relating to the stories of our women; some I've heard of, some I've met and some I'm yet to meet... I live with some, was birthed by one and escaping from one I include this book through my life story as women issues of being belittled, taken for granted, not being recognised, working to be expected to give all of you, the servantry expectation and loss of women's names down generations being named what doesn't recognise you as own; what will reject you for their own. I refer to male power that is instilled in men from young such that there is a phrase of behaviour we all have to succumb to calle...