Saturday, May 23, 2009

Literacy

Literacy had enabled us to help people learn things that are new to them and everything related to school education. The best thing was to help them learning new things but we were also their teachers and it was a new experience and very positive for us. The classes should be very dynamic so that people wouldn’t look boring and din’t leave. In breaks we gave them a small lunch for them and their children and then returned to classes. We not only teached subjects like math, English, literature, etc, we also teached values what is most important to their lives. There were negative things for example I can say that there are illiterate people who have not been interested in coming to school and they wanted to be paid or something like that, it makes me think that these people were not interested in more developed intellectually and success in their lives. There are others who take great effort to learn and this is going to show all classes or even most of them, whatever the situation they show much interest in each class to learn more. Saturdays were not always appropriate to the classes because many people work or are employed and therefore didn’t come very often. A good thing was that the school helped us with equipment for example with the classrooms and the lunch room to provide a small luch to them. The help with the books was excellent because it can guide us well, and also with our knowledge of primary education.