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The Power of New Teaching Techniques: How Laura Became a Better Teacher

byLaura Orlando
October 9, 2019
in Equal Rights, Essays, SDG Series, Society
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Editorial Note: There is ample and growing evidence that new teaching techniques, with the right training, materials and support, can empower all teachers to succeed no matter where they live. Just like Laura Orlando, a young elementary school teacher in rural Kenya. This is her story, brought to us by Bridge International Academies. It is one of many within their new #TeachersTransformLives campaign that marks UN World Teachers Day 2019, celebrated . 

Laura reflects in her own words on how her teaching has improved through training and support, and how that has helped children to flourish. 


Here is How New Teaching Techniques Empowered Laura 

The reason I wanted to become a teacher in the first place was to inspire Kenya’s next generation. It fills me with great pride knowing that, as a teacher, I have the ability to have an impact on their lives and motivate them to achieve greatness.

I’ve been a teacher for six years now, five of which have been spent at this academy in Gicagi. I was still relatively new to the teaching profession upon joining the school, therefore I had the drive and motivation of a brand new teacher. 

Before first starting out as a teacher, I attended Kaimosi Teacher Training College, where I learnt the most basic teaching techniques required of a teacher. This included the ‘lecturing technique’ where teachers provide a set of information to their pupils without fully engaging them. The issue with this old technique is that it didn’t allow me to see if my pupils understood the lesson.  I was not a very strong teacher back then and I knew it because the children were bored. I did not feel like I was reaching them and I did not feel like I had the things I wanted to be good at my job. I was upset with the whole situation. 

Even though I worked at a school prior to joining this one in Gicagi, the learning outcomes that I am seeing from pupils here is far greater than beforehand. I believe it’s because of the support and teacher training I have here. Things like the textbooks, the flash cards, the lesson plans, the people who supervise me, and all the other things, they are like my strong foundations. And because I am stronger, my pupils are stronger in their learning.

Through the teacher training sessions I attended before starting here in this school, I learnt new teaching techniques that I had never heard of before.

For example, I learnt the ‘checking for learning’ technique. This overlaps quite heavily with the ‘question and answer’ technique, as the aim of both techniques is to keep tabs on pupils that may be struggling to keep up with the lesson content. I ‘check for learning’ through regularly walking around the classroom when I give my pupils activities to do, engaging with them on what they think about the lesson. This is a positive technique as it gives pupils the opportunity to speak up, particularly those that may feel too shy to speak to an entire classroom. 

But what is most important is that I have so many people around me in this school who support me. I have an Academy Manager leader who can watch some of the lessons and then show me after how I can improve. I have people who come from the support office and they are good at giving me feedback on little things I do that work well for the children. It is almost like being in training all the time, because I am always learning here. 

So, every week I am still exploring ways to teach, still changing and developing as a teacher. I never stay still. The parents have noticed it as well. They say to me that their children come home talking about school and learning things, and that never happened before. 

The results speak for themselves, I have seen our children, over the past four years, get better grades than most other children in the KCPE  [Kenya Certificate of Primary Education] exams. In this school children are confident because they know they can do better here in the final exam. Children who were with me a few years ago, they took the exam, they did very very well. That is why the parents like this school and they like my teaching. I think this is only possible with all the help we have as teachers.   

There are so many people who help me with better teaching, almost every week they have given me the power to teach pupils faster. For them to learn more I engage them and now they are better and understand the lessons much deeper. My lessons are clear from start to finish – pupil-centred all the way, and that has made for higher academic results. 

I am seeing the good results that these ways of teaching have on pupils across the school. I want to say good luck to everyone in their upcoming Kenya Certificate of Primary Education exams.    

 

To see more teacher profiles and their stories that celebrate UN World Teachers Day please visit the campaign homepage.         

 

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Laura Orlando is a teacher in Nairobi Kenya where she has been teaching for 5 years at Bridge International Academies. She trained as a teacher at Kaimosi Teacher Training College and qualified as a teacher in 2014. Teacher Laura has been working with children in primary level education for her whole career. Her greatest motivation in life is to inspire the minds of Kenya’s next generation.

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