Monday, January 25, 2010

Math Department of Saba Saba Day Secondary School

I am now a member of the math department of Saba Saba.  There are 4 teachers, each teaching 24 periods.  The teachers are:

Form 4: Mr. Mawazo
Form 3: Mr. Hideki
Form 2: Mr. Kim (me)
Form 1: Miss Yang

Mr. Hideki is a JICA volunteer and Miss Yang is a KOICA volunteer.  Mr. Hideki leaves at March and Miss Yang leaves at April.  Mr. Kim doesn’t start work until mid-February, but the term starts next week. 

So Madam Headmistress, what happens when these volunteers aren’t around?

Well, that’s a problem, but not a lot of solutions I’m afraid.  We’ll get some help.


Apparently, this is a nationwide problem, and is one for science as well.  So multiply the above problem by two, and then multiply that by a very large number to see the teaching shortage here.

Jan 16.



classroom





classroom building



in front of the school

2 comments:

Kabir said...

Fascinating...both this story and the one about the computers. How is teacher attendance? That's a big problem in India.

I always thought the "give stuff and then leave" was more a theoretical problem than a practical one, because I assumed people wouldn't be that stupid.

You should become a computer teacher. Math is too 20th century.

TK said...

The teacher attendance is pretty bad too. I'm not too sure of the extent, but that will be revealed soon.

I should NOT be a computer teacher. I can't do Linux. Math is 20th C, but it was also 5th C BC.

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