Education
Newspapers aid teachers in making lesson plans
The community school, which started in 2019, has a population of 240 pupils in Primary One, Two and Three plus three teachers.
Teacher Florence Pulukol uses TOTO Magazine to prepare her lesson plans. (Credit: Ritah Mukasa)
By: Ritah Mukasa, Journalist @New Vision
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“A teacher can best teach Social Studies and current affairs if they have a current newspaper as a teaching and learning aid,” John Yoannah Aleper, a teacher at Nabokat Community School located in Numelu subcounty, Nakapiripirit District, Karamoja sub-region, says.
In all his lessons in Primary Two and Three, which happen every Thursday, Aleper uses Weekend Vision and TOTO magazines to show the learners, among others, Uganda’s leaders starting with President Yoweri Museveni and his ministers plus Karamoja’s Members of Parliament (MPs).
And when he is teaching about peace and security, he says, “I show the learners the different people that help to keep our country safe, such as the police and army. The pictures are always published in the newspapers.”
Besides, where the teacher steps out of class to attend to a guest at school or is entirely absent due to sickness, Aleper says, the newspapers, especially TOTO magazine, help to keep the learners engaged.
“I distribute the magazines among the children and guide them on how to do the activities like word search, matching words to pictures or joining the dots while counting the numbers up to 40 or 50.” Joining the dots is a fun way to learn to count.
Besides, where the teacher steps out of class to attend to a guest at school or is entirely absent due to sickness, Aleper says, the newspapers, especially TOTO magazine, help to keep the learners engaged.
“I distribute the magazines among the children and guide them on how to do the activities like word search, matching words to pictures or joining the dots while counting the numbers up to 40 or 50.” Joining the dots is a fun way to learn to count.
Similarly, Florence Pulukol, the Primary One English teacher, uses the newspapers to do lesson plans, especially when she is teaching about sounds and blending letters to form words and sentences. “Everything is in TOTO magazine,” she says.
The community school, which started in 2019, has a population of 240 pupils in Primary One, Two and Three plus three teachers.
Every week, they receive 25 copies of Weekend Vision and TOTO magazine under the Newspapers in Education (NiE) programme, which is being funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) through Save the Children in partnership with New Vision.
NORAD is implementing a five-year programme from 2024 to 2028, called “Transforming the Future-For and with Children,” in the Acholi and Karamoja regions. The program aims to ensure that all children enjoy their rights to survival, protection, development and participation in a safe, inclusive, accountable and resilient environment.
The community school, which started in 2019, has a population of 240 pupils in Primary One, Two and Three plus three teachers.
Every week, they receive 25 copies of Weekend Vision and TOTO magazine under the Newspapers in Education (NiE) programme, which is being funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) through Save the Children in partnership with New Vision.
NORAD is implementing a five-year programme from 2024 to 2028, called “Transforming the Future-For and with Children,” in the Acholi and Karamoja regions. The program aims to ensure that all children enjoy their rights to survival, protection, development and participation in a safe, inclusive, accountable and resilient environment.