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Placements | Teaching | Healthcare & Medicine | Conservation | Journalism & Media | Orphanages and Care Work |
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Teaching in Uganda
Uganda Teaching placements in Uganda are based in a secondary school in Jinja rural district. Jinja is a sleepy little town, increasingly popular with travellers in light of its location at the source of the Nile and the white-water rafting. Facilities in Jinja are excellent. Shops along Main Street are well supplied and there is a fantastic market well worth a look round that sells just about anything – including the local delicacy of fried white ants! Internet cafés are dotted about up and down Main Street and there are a couple of great restaurants catering for both local and western appetites. The people are incredibly friendly and are genuinely happy to help. Subjects offered are similar to those offered in our own curriculum, and the subjects you teach will be based around your own interests. You will receive a teaching pack in your pre-departure information with ideas to help you teach. We suggest that you include creative teaching methods into your lessons as this is one of the biggest factors missing in Ugandan classes, where education is based around repetition of fact. While it is important to have factual knowledge, it also needs to be understood and built upon. This is what creative educational tools can offer. The most impact you can have on regular curriculum education in Uganda is in secondary schools. However, there are also opportunities to do some part time placements in primary schools if you focus on a particular project – eg conservation education; art/music workshops etc. Those children that receive this secondary education are able to go on to further education in teaching colleges, universities or vocational institutes. Their future possibilities increase fourfold after only four of the six years of secondary school. Related links: Follow your placement with an amazing East African Adventure
Iíd spend my morning teaching English, History and games to classes of 75-220 children! Marking books at break and helping some pupils with their reading. A mug of sweet coconut tea and roasted cassava set us on until lunctime. If I was not teaching in the afternoon Iíd collect the lunch of Chapatis, egg, and salad from Monica and catch a boda boda into town. Painting, digging, and the endless moving of rocks would fill the afternoons as we worked under the inquisitive eyes of the yellow uniformed children. At the end of the day a quick swim in the cool, refreshing river Nile would refresh all after a meal of beans, cabbage and potatoes thereíd be a drink down at the local campsite by the Nile and then bed to the accompaniment of bats.î
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