One of the things we do as part of our ITEP work is to observe teachers who are in the student teaching phase of their certification. Right now we are working with 4 different teachers. Each teacher has to have 5 lessons observed and evaluated. Last Friday we visited Temokua's class, where he was teaching a lesson on different types of banks as part of his accounting curriculum. This picture shows a team of 6 girls preparing a role play activity to portray the 3 different types of banks.
Here the girls are doing their role play while Temokua observes and grades them. They had to do everything in English, of course, which is very difficult for some of them. Notice the open windows on both sides of the classroom. When it rains, the noise is so loud it makes it very hard to hear anything the teacher or students say. As ambulances or police cars go by with their sirens blaring, they make quite a distraction while instruction comes to a halt for half a minute.
Temokua is giving direct instruction to the class on the three kinds of banks.
We have had several good storms roll through recently, which has messed up the road but really helped the water situation.
The rain reflects some sad things that have happened recently in our mission. One of our young elders learned two weeks ago that both his parents and two younger siblings were killed in a private plane accident in Missouri. Amazingly, he has decided to stay on his mission. Tomorrow we say goodbye to the self-reliance senior couple who are returning to the U.S. temporarily, we hope, for a medical procedure. Their health problem, they believe, may stem from the mosquito bourne disease, Chikagunya, which she had last February. Next Tuesday we begin teaching a new ITEP class, EDU 312 called Effective Pedagogy. Time is flying by!
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