It's now that I've come to appreciate the quality of education and exposure I have received in life.


To those who have made it possible (teachers, classmates, parents, sponsors, lecturers, advisers, encouragers et al), gracias. I love you all!


As a Corper serving in a missionary school in Imo state, I have encountered so many challenges.


From lateness, to indiscipline, to unseriousness, I thought I had seen it all.


However, during a SS1 Physics class this morning, I realised that my "beloved" students didn't know the multiplication table.


To say I was shocked is an understatement!
In an instant, my morale took a nosedive and I felt like weeping for this country.


I did a brief exercise and discovered that 99% of Senior Students in the school didn't know the multiplication table. When I told the SS2 students to learn it before Monday, a female student asked if I wanted them to run mad. Imagine!


I'm still asking myself where I could start teaching them from but the magnitude of the problem really dazzles me.


I really want to impart these students positively and make them better students and people.


Good people of Nairaland, if you were in my shoes, where would you start from?


Matured advices only... Thanks

simiolu1:
It's now that I've come to appreciate the quality of education and exposure I have received in life.

To those who have made it possible (teachers, classmates, parents, sponsors, lecturers, advisers, encouragers et al), gracias. I love you all!

As a Corper serving in a missionary school in Imo state, I have encountered so many challenges.

From lateness, to indiscipline, to unseriousness, I thought I had seen it all.

However, during a SS1 Physics class this morning, I realised that my "beloved" students didn't know the multiplication table.

An SS1

datguru:


An SS1

Thanks...

This is serious.

Olarewajub:
This is serious.

So serious... Way forward please. Thanks

One thing you can do is to prepare your curriculum based on what you have any observed because the topics in SS2 physics are not child's play.

jeebz:
One thing you can do is to prepare your curriculum based on what you have any observed because the topics in SS2 physics are not child's play.

I have d curriculum and I've tried to strictly adhere to it. But we have a situation where if they have missed a topic in an earlier class, I hav to teach that topic first before teachin them what is in d curriculum. Thanks for your contribution

simiolu1:

I have d curriculum and I've tried to strictly adhere to it. But we have a situation where if they have missed a topic in an earlier class, I hav to teach that topic first before teachin them what is in d curriculum. Thanks for your contribution

I actually mean that a student who can't recite the times table would have serious challenges with the topics in SS2 Physics. Topics like Electricity and Mechanics may prove difficult. You may need assess the real situation of the students in terms of what they lack and start from there.
I guess that you may need to assess their knowledge of elementary physics to see if it would be worthwhile to proceed with the SS2 curriculum.

jeebz:

I actually mean that a student who can't recite the times table would have serious challenges with the topics in SS2 Physics. Topics like Electricity and Mechanics may prove difficult. You may need assess the real situation of the students in terms of what they lack and start from there.
I guess that you may need to assess their knowledge of elementary physics to see if it would be worthwhile to proceed with the SS2 curriculum.

Thanks for that tip... Would do just that