PART TWO

        MY FIRST DAY AS A TEACHER (part two)

Here we are at it again.
A lot of pupils are always excited when they notice a new teacher
in their school. It becomes a bigger source of much happiness if
the new teacher will be assigned to their class.

I was made the class teacher of Standard Two . Most of these kids
are between the ages of 7-8 years old. But when teaching a public
school ,don't be surprised to find a 11 year old learner in STD 2.

The roll of pupils in my class was huge .A total of 102 kids under my watch.
For the better part of the year,I realised ,they will be depending on
my daily provision of emotional,spiritual ,physical ,psychological and ofcourse
educational care.

I was approaching the Standard Two class which was centrally
located on the school compound. The structure of the class was permanent
and we'll roofed. The walls were also painted beautifully with some sections
filled with drawings that captured the ever busy attention of the
school goers. I noticed that the building had open windows i.e windows
without window panes. Now,that was an issue !

Sitting on the window were four learners smilling broadly as I approached
the class. As a matter of fact,most of the learners in Standard Two have
shedded their lower incisors. You can now picture the kind of smiles I'm talking
about.

  to be continued !



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