Yours In Education

"To whom much  has been given much is required" I look deep into education through the eyes of the quotee as I search for opportunities for my students. My growth as an educator has come with lessons; major one coming from my recent experience of training girls towards the high school forum discussion competition, seeing them practising what has been taught and delivering it through learned skills and reflecting on performance. I thrive on making my surroundings thrive. Motivation is a huge factor. Truth be told; we are not everyone's people and people aren't all ours; this is quite a mouthful for someone in education with expectations of 'professionalism'; a word intentionally quotation marked for the purpose of this section because of my experience with my girls. For many professionalism is being a bigger person; literally... A rocky start with half of them, an optimistic start with the rest. One important quality I've learned #InEd. is providing oppo...

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...

This picture takes me back to my America's next model; with aspirations of becoming Africa's...STILL  ME: short, petite, shy yet outspoken, South African, smart, inquisitive...  HER: taller, darker, smart, slimmer, sensitive, Somali, shy yet verbal of her realities current and past... This year was also my first time coming across the procedure 'female genital mutilation'... and it wouldn't be the first; here goes: I remember her chocolate brown skin her tiny eyes beautiful cheekbones and pointed nose her gorgeous smile through tears as she told her story there in my lounge listening her soft voice my dad exclaiming in shock: it wasn't the first time hearing such I remember the smell of the food my mother was preparing for us mouth watering samp and beans coffee tea coming up for dad my senses ignited not in joiy but in disgust and shock shock at society of that time shock at the ';values' instilled in women we will cut ...

It is is with great pleasure and power for me to introduce my girls to the art of storytelling. Stories personal to their contexts and beings;  who they are, who they have been, ought to be, want to be, need to be... Because in all fact, all those categories may be totally different viewed in or/and of isolation. Students should not be fed, simply, but exposed to food for the soul, both from their peers and those who have gone past and the living. Most of all students should make their own food; what best way than through stories. This half term my grade 9's are telling their stories through different media in topics such as: life through movies life through people we have and have not met life through music life through books life through poetry etc...

Sharing progressive learning and teaching skills Through teaching languages and through Google educational suite I realised that simply getting a 100% for an assigned task wasn't enough and that the work done by students needs further recognition. It can't just end with my red pen, ticks or mark. What happens to all those documents reflecting on social issues, the poem the songs created, the essays written? How can we teach and learn progressively and empowering students as they grow in our hands: future focused learning? #GlobalEducator #FutureOrientedLeader #AgentOfChange Future oriented learning and teaching trends Mindful behaviour Collaborative Blended Thinking skills Entrepreneurial Teacher development Publishing Reading and Writing Techno integrating Active Learning and teaching Innovative Inquiry based learning