Fellows' Newsletter: Impact Stories.

  A tidy classroom is conducive for teaching and learning. A school environment free from litter, amazes visitors, and that means that every school is obliged to devise sustainable ways of managing waste within classrooms and around the compound. Since the first week of stepping in my school of placement, I have been, and still is, endeavoring to change how certain things are done but with minimal results. For the first two days on reporting, I swept my P1 classroom and asked some learners from P4 to collect the rubbish since my P1 learners couldn't think of looking for brooms to sweep the classroom, they themselves being oriented. When the SEA found me sweeping on the third day, he told me to let the pupils sweep and learn on the job. So, later, the learners took over from me. I must say that before I had written and pinned any class values or norms on the walls, I had already made it clear that I hate seeing litter or untidiness within the classroom or outside. To my amazemen...

  I can't clearly define the level of uncertainty I was filled up with immediately after the Teach For Uganda's training institute. I might have had the vision to transform lives but not the required resilience to work in the deep end of a local setting.   I was depressed, confused and totally discouraged upon checking my school of placement. I bore the dusty and terrible roads but the long distance broke me. In the taxi, I convinced myself that I would handle this come what . The last thread of hope I had tore on seeing my designated accommodation – a noisy crowded area void of privacy and serenity, the two things desired by all, more so teachers . I second guessed my choice f or embarking on the fellowship journey. I questioned why I was even here of all the places I could be, the thoughts of tailoring a resignation crossed my mind several times . The poor network reception for both voice and internet compounded my worries. I wondered if it was a calling for a differ...