How can a novice teacher turned around hopeless results :: Mmegi Online

Matlhogonolo Mokakapadi was 25-years-old and had just completed his diploma in mathematics when he became a teacher in Tswapong. There, he soon found out that the pass-rate was just 25%. As Maunatlala JSS celebrates 30 years, the miracle teacher, now Human Resources Manager at the MoESD headquarters, shares his story.

It was early in the eighties, when a very unexpected thing happened. The Maunatala community decided that adjacent to the footsteps of the Tswapong Hills, a Community Junior Secondary school should be constructed and named Maunatlala Community Junior Secondary School It started operating in 1984.

I was one of the teachers who joined the school on the June 1, 1987 as a mathematics teacher. This was my very first posting as a novice teacher having completed a Diploma in Secondary Education (science) at the University of Botswana. I joined Maunatlala CJSS and the Maunatlala community with vigour and veracity.

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