‘Hopeful’ Teacher Training Outreach

This has been a busy past couple of months with teacher training workshops in other schools in the local area.  One of the founding schools of the Christian Schools Association (U), Hope Nursery and Primary School in Masaka, asked us to conduct a 2-day workshop at their school to train their staff in biblical integration.  While I was working in Kibaale Community Centre several years ago, their director and some of their teachers would join our staff development workshops, but over the years they have had many staff changes so they asked us to do more training for them (as well as for the new Hope High School that is affiliated with them).  Still another school found out about the training and sent a couple of teachers to join us.  It was a great time of learning together and the teachers were eager to learn how to integrate their Christian faith in their classroom teaching. 

Hope Primary School has educated hundreds of children over the years, including many who have been relocated from the northern part of Uganda after suffering trauma during the LRA rebel crisis.  It has been an oasis of hope for these children.

This was probably the most successful workshop I have done in terms of teachers being able to apply what they were learning as they wrote sample lesson plans and presented them as model lessons for others to observe.

Vincent Zaake, the founding director of Hope Primary School and Hope High School, is an inspiring man of vision.  He has served for several years as the chairman of the Christian Schools Association (U).  We have so appreciated his zeal for promoting Christian  education in Uganda and are happy to work with him to  equip his teachers.  The seed that was planted in Kibaale is spreading quickly now.  God be praised!