Model School

It is exciting to see our school in Kibaale becoming more and more involved in hosting teachers from other schools and fulfilling its goal of being a model school.  Last week we had a group from Come Let Us Dance (Wakiso District), and today I took a group of six teachers from various nursery schools near Masaka to tour Kibaale Community Nursery School.

Judith (on left) taught on our Kibaale staff for many years and is now running her own nursery/primary school.  She is on the board of an association of private schools in her sub-county and has been sharing with these schools many ideas and teaching methods she learned in Kibaale.  The schools represented in this association have been asking for more teacher training help, so Judith approached me to conduct workshops for them.  We began by taking this group of teachers to observe how we use learning centres in the nursery and kindergarten classes in Kibaale.

Our nursery headteacher, Eva, did an excellent job in organising this visit, and I was very proud of all of our teachers who opened their classrooms and shared their expertise so willingly.

 

The visiting teachers went back to their schools with many helpful ideas that they observed and recorded as they interacted with the students and teachers in Kibaale.  They were also very interested in the creative learning materials our teachers had developed.

 

    

We will now provide these teachers with some follow-up workshops held at the Timothy Centre… to help them plan ways to implement these ideas in their own schools and to teach them how to make many of the learning aids they will need.