Teacher to Teacher Tuesday ...continued

Although we are helping establish a library at Makeni, upper elementary class teachers from other schools expressed frustration with the lack of a library, books,and reference materials that would enable them to meet the educational  needs of their students. While listing the resources that would be   necessary in order to make libraries a reality in their school, one teacher said "the help of God."  Please join with Michael Kamara praying for the teachers and students in UMC schools in Sierra Leone and also consider whether you are called to be an answer to those prayers.  Pat Macdonald

With class one and two teachers participating in the teacher to teacher workshop, one participant, Roseline, offered to allow Linda to demonstrate with a lab school kind of setting, using 20 Sierra Leone students. The "Learning Centers"we're spelling, reading, reading from grade level books with the teacher and a "look at books" table.

In the spelling center, one little child struggled to write even three letters while the other children finished the list. She could not write her name on the paper. She was totally lost.

But how could a teacher determine who needs help. Another gentleman, Solomon, has 109 children in his first grade class! It makes us wonder how a teacher could keep track of each of the learning needs of each individual! Yet most teachers expressed their children were ready to go on to the next level.  Martin H.