Practical Guide in Establishing Parents Reading Club

Reading Clubs is a significant in introducing the reading culture in the community, it is also a catalyst in developing the reading interest of the children during formative years. The parents are first contact of the children at home and plays an integral part in the children reading appetite. Here are the practical guides of forming reading clubs in in our schools or in our community initiated by parents.

1.     Introduce  the  importance of the  Reading Club

2.     Motivate the parents of  having  a Reading Club

3.     Let the parents decide for themselves to form a  Reading Club

4.     If the parents decided, guide and facilitate   to organize a Reading Club that is growing and sustainable by answering the following questions?

·        Who   will lead the group of parents

·        When, where  and how often they will meet

·        Where they will get the books

·        What steps they are going to follow in borrowing books.

5.     Trained and coach the parents where to get resources aside from books provide by Itegure Gusoma, like they can obtain and collect books.

6.     Train and guide the parents on how to  manage the  Reading Club   resources by preparing  the following

·        Road map of  the Reading Club  activities

·        Guide to successful reading club sessions

·        A  planning checklist of the Reading Club

 If you gave completed the six steps, then   the Reading Club is on the way!

Ten Commandments of Managing Large Classes

Large classes is always a  challenge, it is every one dreams   to delivery quality education  especially in the  formative  level of education.  However,   being selective of who will attend the class we deprive the  children of their right  for education. In some society,  the salary  amount  of the teachers depend on the number of students because the state or maybe the institution cannot provide them with salary but I will  help you based on experience how to  handle large classes in a very simple way and these are my Ten Commandments in handling large  classes.

The Ten Commandments of Teaching Large Classes

1. Thou shall remember the rights of the child for education
2. Thou shall  not come to class without lesson plan but prepare also an alternative class ativities
3. Thou shall keep   your  class  routine
4. Thou shall be firm  with class disciple and rules without being stric
5. Thou shall manage your  class time carefully but open a room for flexibility
6. Thou shall not forget your class seating plan
7. Thou shall divide your class into groups or teams
8. Thou shall give every student  the opportunity to be heard and participate
9. Thou shall not forget to reinforce or review the lessons before and after the class
10. Thou shall not forget your student name