My name is Kunda Kasote. I am a volunteer teacher at Makululu Community Basic School in Kabwe. I started working as an untrained teacher. With the support of the community and the school, I followed formal primary teacher training.
I also learn from the Lesson Study Cycle programme that is introduced by VVOB. I attend a workshop for community school teachers on how to prepare a good lesson plan and how to deliver it. After the training workshop, and with the help of other teachers, I implement the lesson study cycle at school level. It definitely improves my lessons.
Recently VVOB donated ten computers to my school so that both teachers and learners could benefit from ICT. Fortunately, I happen to be a participant of the VVOB Grassroots Zambia Project. My plan is to use Wikipedia to facilitate the teaching of social and development studies and integrate science in my grade six class. So far I have managed to train my pupils in general ICT skills. I am confident that the grassroots project will give the pupils a chance to find learning materials on the computer without difficulties.
Throughout the period I have worked with VVOB, I have learnt many things, such as the improvement of teaching as a result of lesson study and the acquisition of computer skills. I have come to appreciate how important it is for a teacher to be computer literate, so as to cope with the changes that are taking place in the world today. This take me a long way, for I am very willing to transfer the knowledge I have acquired to the pupils and other people in the community.
