Report of Adult Education

PROGRESSIVE REPORT

ON

WHISPERS ADULT LEARNERS CLASS

FOR THE PERIOD FEBRUARY –AUGUST 2012

WRITTEN BY

Ms. VICTORIA ITAMBA

ADULT CLASS FACILITATOR

Submitted to: Ms. Veronika Cejpkova

DATE SUBMITTED: 31^ST AUGUST, 2012

Over View of the WALC.

Whispers Adult Learners Class (WALC) begun in February, 2012 out of the financial and material support from Whisper based in Mutai, Kagoma County, Jinja District. WALC begun with 27 adult learners the majority (20) being housewives. Sixteen (16) of the women had never been to school while four had ended in Primary three. The male participant had never been to school before.

The classes are conducted every Saturday and Sundays every week from 2.00-5.00pm. The days and times were correctively determined by the learners to ensure convenience.

The class lessons started with teaching the learners how to count number (1-100), writing them down, reading and writing the vowels, alphabet letters, how to handle the writing materials like a pencil and pens, pronunciations of words, writing their names, how to greet in English according to the time of the day, naming of things in the environment, basic mathematical calculations, to mention but a few.

Methods of Delivery of Class.

While delivering the lessons a number methods and techniques were employed and these were not limited to the following;

·      Demonstration

·      Illustrations

·      Role Plays

·      Imitations

·      Brain storming

·      Question and Answers

Achievements registered so far.

·      98% of the learners are now able to reading and write all the Alphabets, vowels and numbers without any hardship.

·      96 % of all learners can ably write their name.

·      98% of the learners can now confidently greet in English.

·      Most of the learners can now express themselves in a group which was not the case at the commencement of the class as the majority were shy and feared to express themselves before others.

·      Ninety percent of the learners can now construct basic sentences.

Challenges threatening the WALC.

·      Poor time management by the learners as the class time is never kept and yet it was consciously agreed upon by the learners.

·      Irregular attendance by some of the learners, which they attribute to family chores/ problems like sickness of their children, death of relatives, Local Council cases resulting from disputes between neighbors.

·      Alcohol drinking among the learners has to some extent affected the general attendance. Some of these are involved in brewing or buying alcohol to drink.

·      The majority of the learners being farmers, sometimes especially during the rain seasons, the attendance is poor as many are busy planting or weeding their crops.

Way Forward.

·      There is need to involve the Local Leaders in the area to keep mobilizing the learners to join the WALC.

·      Management of Whispers need to plan for quarterly meetings with the learners to continue encouraging them to attend the lessons.

·      If possible Whispers management need to consider bringing other programmes on board like vocational training in the areas of tailoring, craft, weaving, income generating activities etc as away of enticing the learners to keep coming regularly.

APPRECIATION

I take the opportunity to thank Ms. Veronika Cejpkova and the entire management for giving the opportunity to facilitate WACL. I hope this is just the beginning of working with Whisper Orphans.

Thank you.