Just some quick updates from my first day of school at
Loyola High School:
We began the day with an opening assembly for the new school
year at which new students and staff members were introduced by the Headmaster.
We started the assembly with the school prayer, song and the Tanzanian national
anthem (all of which I need to learn!!). Following the assembly (8:00-10:00a.m.),
we broke for Tea, and then Cait and I divided up our lessons for this term!
My students, the newest students to the school, who will be
in the Human Development Program(HDP) in order to become more comfortable with
speaking English, are in orientation this whole week. I will teach one Religion
class to Form 1 students on Wednesday, but otherwise, the teaching will
commence next week! I now know that I will be teaching HDP Current News, Model
Assembly, Word Games, Jesuit Values and Oral English. The main purpose of this
curriculum is to create an environment in which English is being spoken,
written and learned in order to ready the students for the academic demands of
an English speaking high school. Fortunately, I have the resources of Former JV’s
(FJV’s) and my second year JV, Cait, all to help me with lesson planning for
the year!
We closed the first day with a school Mass and tomorrow, I
will meet my HDP students and accompany them during their orientation as we
simultaneously orient and acclimate ourselves to our new school and home away
from home. More reflection to come soon!
The first day of school is always so exciting. A clean,new notebook holds the promises of the school year ahead. Katie, surely you will make this an exciting one for your lucky students. Love you,A.Lizzy
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you had another great first day of school to add to your days at St.A,DA and Providence-I'm also glad you had a proper teacher outfit for the first day-enjoy meeting your students and colleagues.love,mommy
DeleteI am so glad you enjoyed your "first" day of school in Africa-just like all your firsts at St.A's, DA and Providence-enjoy this week meeting your students and colleagues-also glad you had the proper teacher outfit for first day-love Mommy
Loved how both you and the students entrusted to you are both experiencing the newness of a "first day" together. Journeying together.
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