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| Esnart and her family |
This is a transcript of an interview with her:
• I am a self-motivated person who strives to make a positive impact on other people’s lives so that they can use their knowledge to change their own lives and those of others.
• At present, I am no longer teaching full time in class but I train Complementary Basic Education (CBE) facilitators who teach out of school youths and children. These facilitators are met in their village zones/clusters.
• The schools in which facilitators teach are in the rural areas and a maximum of 60 facilitators are trained though mostly such trainings would take place at zonal level where a group of 15 facilitators are trained. CBE classes are held in borrowed premises such as school classrooms or any other community building as they only exist for three years to help school drop outs catch up with learning and those who have never been to school to learn before they go back to formal schools.
• I have been a teacher for 25 years.
• I teach adults who in turn teach children and youth of ages 9 to 17 years.
• There are about 60% males and 40% females in my class.
• My classroom is a permanent building with all facilities available. It has model teaching and learning resources that my students could learn from and make their own in their respective classrooms.
• My students are of diverse abilities and backgrounds, but I create an environment where all are given equal opportunity to learn from me and from others.
EXPERIENCE AS A TEACHER IN MALAWI
