Hi! Everyone,
‘My name is Mapenzi aged 21 years. Am very much happy to speak to you all today so as to know of my career progress being one of the eldest girls in the Mtomondoni sponsorship program. Having completed my secondary school, I proceeded for a teacher’s training course at a teachers’ training college within Mtwapa called Imara Teachers’ Training College. At the moment am doing an internship where am doing some teaching work at my local village school here in Mtwapa called ‘Amukeni’ Primary school.
‘Amukeni’ is a Kiswahili word meaning wake up, the school is a private owned school with a kids population of slightly over 200 kids ranging from STD 1-6.It has a total number of 8 teachers and each class has an average of 40 kids.The school day at Amukeni primary school begins at 6.00am where all kids are first involved in the morning clean up of their classes and do some lesson preparations. Here below is the school time table;-
7.30 am-8.00am………………….Morning school assembly.
8.00am-9.10 am………………….Normal classes begin.
9.10 am-9.30 am………………….1st morning break
9.30 am-10.40 am………………..morning classes continue.
10.40 am-11.10 am………………2nd morning break.
11.10 am-12.30 pm………………morning classes continue.
12.30 am-2.00pm……………….lunch break.
2.00pm-4.00pm………………….afternoon classes
4.00 pm-5.00 pm games/sports.
5.00 pm End of school day.
The major school subjects offered in our school are Maths, English, Kiswahil, Science, Social studies and Christian Religious Education. In sports we have foot ball for the boys while for the girls we have handball.
As for my work as a teacher, am a class teacher for STD 2and I have a total of 59 kids in my class i.e 27 boys and 32 girls. I teach all the 5 subjects as mentioned above. So as to make sure that all of my students have understood, I give them some exercise or a kind of a test before the end of my lesson and mark immediately. From the marking I’ll will have known which kid will not have understood and so as to make sure the slow learner hasn’t understood ,I do a one on one teaching before I do the next lesson. In my grading I may do comments like good, very good and sometimes I award the kids work with marks. Also I do monthly test for all the subjects for my class.
Before the kids leave for home in the evening, I do give some home work to carry home and then mark their work in the following morning. For the lesson plans, I do prepare my lesson by use of a teacher’s guide book which we are provided by the Ministry of Education, in addition to that I further research from other relevant teachers’ books.
I love all of my kids in class and are too very happy to be their class teacher.
Finally, I want to say thank you to all of my sponsors from Brockington college, England for their continuous support towards my education ever since I was in primary school until now that am undergoing the teacher’s training course. Also I would like to take this opportunity to further say thank you to Brockington College for the continuous food support to me, thank you and be blessed.
Yours loving girl,Mapenzi’.