KIWODEA Nursery School

KIWODEA Nursery School is registered under KIWODEA. So far it has 25 children (11 boys and 14 girls). It was started in 2006 by one retired lady from the Ministry of Women and Children affairs where she served as the Principal Secretary of this Ministry.
It is also under the KIWODEA women Group Administration.

Contacts:
Director: Nancy Tesha
P.O Box 9781 Moshi Mobile phone 0754 310552

Assistant: Gudila Kimboka Mobile 0754 – 892705

Rahel Sabuni: Care taker of the children. 0784 – 466191

Location: It located six kilometers from of CCS Rau along Moshi Arusha Road. It is very close to St. Joseph Hospital near Nancy Tesha’s location.

AIM: To help vulnerable children
Children of single mothers
Orphans
Children of jobless parents e.g. children of house boys and house girls.

Volunteers Activities:
• To assist resident teachers in teaching basic literacy (i.e. writing, reading, counting, shapes, colors)
• Providing physical activities to a group of children.
• Playing games with the children and have fun
• Work hand-in-hand with the Tanzanian teachers to develop pre-school activities and materials that can be used.
• Providing personal presentation and experience to the children and teachers for cultural and educational exchange.

Supplies and Equipment
• Readily designed group activities with facilitator instructions, ready for review and implementation.
• Supplies for physical education activities, music for different activities
• Toys/things to be used for teaching different activities
• Materials for painting
Attributes:
• Love of children and a flair for teaching
• Patience with children and ability to provide effective classroom management
• ESL teaching skills are important and ability to adjust your speech to a very low of annunciation
• Creativity in the design of learning activities with very little supplies or modern equipment

Other notes
The volunteer should speak slowly and not take it for granted that the pupils understand what they’re saying. Find new and creative ways of teaching English. The kids really thrive on positive feedback to build their confidence.

Some of the teachers do not smile or show affection to the kids, and they are able to keep the children disciplined. It is important to balance maintaining control in the class and reinforcing the children’s learning.

It is good to take the children into a small group and teach them. When the kids are all in one room it is difficult to teach and maintain order. In the beginning, the work is challenging, but you will love the kids and you will get a lot of pleasure from seeing the kids learn.

Volunteers have also found that the kids are curious about volunteer’s skin and hair and may like to touch you! It is a good way to bond and also give them exposure to people of different cultures.

Sometimes the volunteer will also be supported by young Tanzanian local volunteers to facilitate translation and classroom control.

Classroom teaching facilities are very limited. Desks and benches to sit on are not enough at times. Some parents cannot afford pens and exercises books At times attendance (number if pupils) might be higher than expected.

Memorization is the style used in most of the nursery schools in Tanzania. The kids are very good at counting and reading the alphabets but they cannot show which alphabet or number they have just mentioned. So the volunteer should be able very creative to choose his / her own methodology.