Development
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Teaching in Kibera.
Kibera is Africa’s largest slum. Home to over a million
people living in tin houses without running water or sanitary
facilities there are numerous small community schools working
hard to educate thousands of children. The conditions are
harsh, there are no desks and chairs, and there are no books
or pencils. Teachers are often poorly trained and underpaid.
Our volunteer teachers work in harsh conditions but the
rewards are many.
We demonstrate
how to teach English and Mathematics through activity-based
learning. We demonstrate child-centred methods of teaching
and learning. We show our Kenyan colleagues that it is possible
to teach children outdoors to get them out of crowded, dark,
suffocating classrooms. We show how to use PE as a way to
increase literacy and math skills. We teach all day, five
days a week. Our day starts at 7 when we leave our guesthouse
to go be taken to Kibera. Our days end at 4:30 after teaching
as many as 120 children in a classroom our outdoors. We
work in pairs, two teachers or more in a school. We work
with small groups of children, large groups of children
and whole classes. We show our Kenya colleagues how to make
interactive teaching resources, how to create activity-based
lessons, how to plan a lesson and how to integrate the English
and Math curriculum with PE and recreation.
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