The One With The Students Career Goals (11/16/2012)

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!