I am continually impressed with Graces passion for seeing the
students here succeed. She is so
invested in their lives. She knows all
450 students names, what village they live in and often how many siblings they
have. She recently took a class to
improve her teaching and she is constantly in the staff room pouring over her
notes from that class. This week she
gave an exam in her form I classes. At
Kafule form I is broken up into 3 streams (or classes) and apparently stream A
scored much lower than streams B and C did on this exam. When Grace came back to the staff room after returning
the exams her hands were full of little slips of paper. She told me that she gave the students in
stream A a talk about the importance of education to motivate them. She had them write down what they want to be
when they grow up and talking to them about how their hard work now will enable
them to reach those goals. Grace and I went
through all the papers reading what each student wants to be. Interestingly, every student put down one of
five careers: doctor, teacher, pilot, soldier, or member of parliament. One of the
things that encourages me the most here is hearing about the students
goals and dreams. It was such a blessing
to get to read a whole class worth of them!
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