TEACHERS IMPRESSED WITH MONTHLY ICT SUPPORT.

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RIC-NET staff has been moving around the schools offering training and capacity building to teachers of English in Schools of Kasese.16 teachers (6 female and 10 males) and 3 tutors (1 Female and 2 males) have been participating in these monthly trainings.

The purpose of the monthly support to teacher was to improve capacity and mentorship. The issues handled were purposely meant to; improve the quality of lesson preparation and presentation by the teachers and Offer a one stop point to handle one on one problem of each teacher.

The capacity building helped to handle Individual teacher’s problems with regard to use of ICT in lesson preparation especially the teacher’s competency to use and apply ICT tools in lesson preparation. Ms Hellen Mbambu of St Charles SS Kasanga agreed that the monthly mentorship have Motivated her and other teachers to accept the dynamic teaching environment.

On the other hand Teachers able to review the lessons of others in the same department, setting joint monthly tests across and reviewing monthly outputs in terms of lesson planning and presentations. An agreement to shares monthly exams and support each other in marking was reached and agreed upon by all the teachers.