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Tshwarelo Hosia
  • Beating academic underachievement

    Student achievement levels can only go up if students are subjected to a thorough instructional regimen while also students are sufficiently encouraged and challenged to fully apply and bring their best selves to the classroom learning theatre....

  • Celebrating teachers’ accomplishments

    Members of the teaching fraternity are gathering in the vibrant Palapye town to mark and celebrate their day, highlighting accomplishments made over the years while reflecting on challenges and road blocks that could be inhibiting provision of...

  • The spirit of community enterprise

    Poverty was not used as an excuse to deter people from participating in the education affairs of their children.Indeed, as the Bible states, where your treasure is, there will be your heart also. Before the government seriously took care of erecting...

  • The pain of losing a teacher

    The teacher in question has been the pillar of strength in the creation and sustenance of a high performing culture that our sub region is renowned for. I sat in the office with disbelief, overwhelmed with a sense of loss as I read and re-read his...

  • Spirit of collectivism, working together

    Yes, it would be good if miraculous and overnight solutions were to be sought and found. But that is only a wishful thinking, dream that is almost impossible to realise. The solution rests in the spirit of collectivism, working together for the...

  • Absorbing eligible pupils

    If somehow the participation of government in the provision of reception classes has resulted in the emasculation of the private sector, this outcome was accidental rather than planned .It was an attempt predicated upon a desire to cater for the poor...

  • A low hanging fruit

    The existence of two classes of subjects in the curriculum appears to be more of a perception rather than a reality. The attempt to make a distinction between, on the one hand, the so-called more taxing and exacting subjects and less rigorous and...

  • Segregation of duties

    It is founded and anchored on the principle of collective responsibility. It is a system of governance recognising the participation of all constituents of a school in the smooth running of the organisation. For power to be effective and magnified,...

  • Teacher-student classroom engagement

    Students’ performance data is an advisory note on how well the teachers are delivering classroom instruction and how well students are receiving classroom instruction and applying themselves. Teaching and assessment make teacher-student classroom...

  • A ‘boring’ teacher

    She was a soft spoken, unassuming but gifted teacher. One of her enviable qualities, which endeared her to the students, was the wisdom of building harmonious and cordial relations with her students while also making them feel at ease. Teachers who...

  • The experience of schooling

    That is how schooling experience felt in the last half of the 1970s. The school system was less tolerant of anything coming outside itself . The school even changed the names of our parents and grandparents gave us and replaced them with its own...

  • The plague of under-achievement

    The plague of under-achievement of schools has been a topical issue, which has preoccupied educators and other critical stakeholders for a prolonged period of time yet there has not been any visible signs of recovery or concrete and appropriate...

  • Pushing for a transformative agenda

    Pushing for a transformative agenda designed to upgrade a struggling school should necessarily begin from a human-centred platform. Anything short of this approach may achieve short-term gains and not necessarily accomplish a much more desired...

  • Fixing a broken school

    It is important, therefore, to avoid at all costs a state where a school loses its spark and relegates to a desperate level of becoming synonymous with hopelessness. A school seeking to stay afloat and intentionally rooted on its purpose should...

  • Maintaining a consistent character

    Almost invariably, all private English Medium schools are synonymous with academic excellence. Take for example, Maruapula School. I have known and heard about the school since childhood as a top brand, rendering effective teaching and learning...

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