one way to encourage girls’ education upon my return to South Sudan

    Upon my return to South Sudan with the great knowledge that I gained in Indiana University, and the good experiences I learned from the conferences, I am now well-equipped and capable to progress more successfully in my profession and able to deal with some educational, social and cultural issues in my country.

     

  One way I will encourage girl’s education will be to organize a workshops in one of our state governmental secondary schools for girls. I will start with (Wau Bmili S.S Girls). The first reason why I chose this school because it is located close to the Ministry of Education and this will help me invite one or two people from the Gender Office to attend this workshop. Secondly, I taught in this school before I shifted to Bahr el Ghazal University therefore, with the help of my former colleagues it will be easier for me to arrange this workshop. These workshops will not be restricted to particular school, since I can organized workshops in any of governmental school in the state.

The step for the specific day for the workshop, I will contact the headmaster of the school to have an idea about the workshop and how we can schedule for the workshop due to the school’s time table.

   

  In this first workshop I will discuss the importance of education in women’s lives, why it is important for them to continue with their education to the higher level, giving examples from my educational background to encourage them. I will be happy to have two of my colleagues (Lucy and Viola) to attend the workshop as the role models. Not only this but the main point is to discuss with those girls to hear their problems and opinions about some social, economic, cultural and family issues as well as personal ideas that are affecting their education. I believe discussing these issues together with girls we can come out with a good result for the better solution that encourage their education.

My plans when I return to South Sudan

      My first plan is to continue in teaching profession as the channel for changes in myself and for the students. Because, schools and colleges are the best place for learning as well as, combining people from different community and diverse groups. Two of the most important ideas I’ve learned so far are improved teaching methodology and the importance of fostering collaborative work.

Improved my teaching methodology: teaching method is an important skill, it is very important for me to improve it based on what I learned and observed here in the United States. It is not easy to apply it typically but, using different teaching methods is very essential for designing a unique learning space that will take place gradually in present and for the better result in the future.

Fostering collaborative work: which is the very successful way of leaning and sharing information and knowledge that I consider as one of the valuable lessons that I learned; however, I will use it although it is difficult to apply it always because of the huge number of the student in the class that let me use teacher center. I plan to use either, group discussion or seminar depending on the course or the lesson.

The most valuable lesson that I like is how to respond and build on other people’s opinions in an appreciative way which creates a safe environment for learning and respect among the students and the teacher as well. Therefore, giving a chance to the student to express his/her ideas and experience is very important because, students are not only the receivers from the teacher but they can contribute positively for their learning, so, based on what I learned from educational psychology, I believe I can apply this approach when I return to South Sudan to facilitate teaching and learning process.

Migration of teachers and pupils

migration as a result of conflict lead to internal and external displacement of teachers and pupils in a country. An educated people specifically, teachers seek safety  for their lives during the conflict, for they are the most targeted people.
pupils as well, being displaced with or without their families, some of them may get an immediate joining schools in their displacement while others are not.and these obstacles will contribute into delayment of child education.
migration of the  teachers and the pupils occurs not only because of the conflict, but also for economic improvement and better education chances.