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CONVENTION PRESENTERS

All presenters are educators with a particular area of interest or concern in Tanzanian education that they would like to share with their peers.

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Presenters have been professionally mentored to assist them in becoming an expert in the current best practice for their chosen topic area, able to competently run professional development workshops for Tanzanian educators.

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All workshops will be run in Swahili unless otherwise stated.

Meet the Workshop Facilitators

Innovative Teaching Strategies

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Idrisa R. Kingazi

Teacher at Kilasala Secondary School in Kilimanjaro Region

"I liked teaching profession from the time when I was in form 3. In our school we had no enough teachers and I took time to study and help teaching my fellow students in some few subjects. From that time, I aimed to become a teacher and this did inspire me. The mentioned topic that I am going to present and the strong desire to learn new things from the convention interested me to be part of it."

Scaffolding Tasks

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Mwajuma A. Magwede

Teacher of  students with learning disabilities at Leganga Primary School in Meru District of Arusha Region

"The wrong perceptions towards students with learning disabilities in our communities inspired me to be a teacher. I like to learn with these students and if they are empowered they can perform at the best of their abilities. Building teachers’ abilities in building students' competencies for 21st Century world is the motive behind my participation in the convention."

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Innovative Teaching Strategies

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Abdul A. Mdee

Teacher from Kitefu Primary School in Meru District of Arusha Region

"The love of being a teacher started from my early years when I was helping my peers with basic literacy and numeracy. They started to respect me and called me teacher then I liked teaching as a respectful profession. I like sharing and learning from others, this motivated me to become a presenter during the convention."

Meaningful Student Engagement and Giving Useful Feedback

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Yohana Mdiu

Head Teacher of Shepherds Schools in Arusha District

"Thinking in a big picture, the main reason for me being a teacher is the big impact that I see in the community and the nation at large through what I teach to my students. I like to share experience with different education stakeholders to arrive at the effective teaching and learning with significant contribution to students learning outcome."

Learning Objectives and Success Criteria

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Redempta Msacky

Ward Education Officer of Usa River Ward, Meru District of Arusha Region

"The opportunity to educate the community and see student learning outcomes improved, inspired me to be a teacher. What fascinated me to become one among the presenters for this convention is the power behind sharing and learning to reach the common intended educational goal for our students."  

Differentiation in the Classroom

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Anna E. Mwajeka

Moshono Secondary School in Arusha City Council

"I was inspired to be a facilitator on “Differentiation in the Classroom” because I love teaching itself and learning from adults, get new experience and networking with like-minded people."

21st Century Skills

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Aisha S. Mwanja

Teacher at Leganga Primary School in Meru District of Arusha Region

"I like teaching because of the love and care that I got from my mathematics teacher and I wanted to share that love to others, that's my big why of being a teacher. My belief is that when you share your knowledge and skills in the course of doing so you even get more as a result."

Effective Assessment

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Stephano Jackson

Teacher at Pamoja Ngabobo Leganga Secondary school in Meru District 

"I liked a teaching career because I love teaching others from my childhood. I choose facilitating a workshop on effective assessment because I have passion to see how my students progress in their learning and evaluate my instruction as a teacher."

Differentiation in the Classroom

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Philemon S. Torongei

Moshono Secondary School in Arusha City Council

"I was inspired to be a facilitator on “Differentiation in the Classroom” because I love teaching itself and learning from adults, get new experience and networking with like-minded people."

Creating Reusable Teaching Resources

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Julitha C. Minde

School Quality Assurance Office in Meru District

“I chose to be a teacher and also a teacher educator because since I was young I liked to educate and support my fellows to do better. Therefore since then I promised myself to become a teacher so that l get chance to acquire skills, knowledge and methods to support others professionally.”

Creating Reusable Teaching Resources

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Julius Meigaru

Department of School Quality Assurance Office in Meru District

“I chose to become a teacher after being inspired by one of my English teachers at secondary school level. He advised me that I could suit either being a teacher or a church pastor, I opted to become a teacher after realizing that I have that trait of helping people, especially the young ones.”

Innovative Teaching Strategies

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Dr Zawadi Richard Juma

Lecturer in Education Courses at St John’s University

"My experiences with the Tanzania education system ignite my research interest in issues related to improving curriculum as well as education as whole.  In turn, the experiences build in me a desire to be involved in research and innovation for improving science education. My involvement with Language Supportive Teaching and Textbooks project in Tanzania continued to enlighten me with issues related to improvement of education system in Tanzania." 

"The wrong perceptions towards students with learning disabilities in our communities inspired me to be a teacher. I like to learn with these students and if they are empowered they can perform at the best of their abilities. Building teachers’ abilities in building students competencies for the 21st Century world is the motive behind my participation in the convention."

What presenters can expect

  • High quality professional mentoring

  • Access to a variety of educational resources and equipment to help develop their workshop

  • Support from The Foundation For Tomorrow in producing workshop resources in terms or equipment, printing and photocopying

  • Practical and useful feedback on their workshop presentation

  • A certificate that verifies their involvement and achievement in the convention

  • Payment for their professional presentation at the convention

  • To participate in the convention when they aren't presenting

  • Future opportunities to provide professional development arising from a quality convention presentation

Expectations of presenters

  • Attend mentoring meetings

  • Provide requests for resources in a timely manner

  • Provide materials for printing, photocopying and in the convention booklet in a timely manner

  • Provide a summary of their workshop content for circulation to participants

  • Communicate regularly with their mentor and the team convening the convention

  • Be available to attend an onsite meeting in the week prior to the convention

  • Present at their allocated time during the convention

  • Participate in the monitoring and evaluation process

Expectations of workshops

  • Run for approximately 70 minutes

  • Be interactive and participatory, with visual and practical elements

  • Have an opportunity for questions and discussion

  • Have something that participants can take away and use immediately in the classroom

  • Provide attendees with useful resources to assist them to implement their learning

  • Evaluated by the participant who attended

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