Dear All, Though quiet, I have been very keen in following the bulk of interesting ideas that have been generated by our own concerned sons and daughters of the soil. I unreservedly thank all those concerned. I have one simple suggestion that some teachers in West Nile who are on the ground need to be part of the task force. Its them who can clearly pin point pertinent issues of poor performance because they know and feel what it means to teach and learn here. Some of the reasons are realy so obvious but painfully, they cannot easily be addressed. One or two of them on the task force would do us a lot of good. Ayibo Benard
--- On Tue, 3/10/09, willy ngaka <[email protected]> wrote: From: willy ngaka <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Terms of Reference for the Task Force To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 11:55 PM Dear all, I must start with my apologies for not being active of late. There are very many reasons for that and one of them being my location in the viallge where I have no access to internet. However, I am now in SA where I can access the net more regularly. I must apprecaite and commend the efforts of all those whose valuable contributions I am reading. I must also appreciate the fact that we have realized that any meaningful change in terms of educational performance in our region will only come from us who have made it to a certain level. Thanks to all those who are active and making contributions. I am just settling down and pledge to be active as soon as that is done. However, in terms of TOR, I wish to suggest the name of OB Joshua Matua who has been Director of Studies for long in three Kampala schools and is currently teaching in St. Kalemba SS in Kayunga district. I an Matua and working on a project which is geared towards curriculum reform in Uganda which has a lot of bearing on what we are discussing right now. We came across many interesting things in our recently concluded First National Intergenerational Literacy Learners' Conference that was jointly organized by URLCODA, Arua District Local Government and Makerere University. I am yet to share some of the findings and recommendations with you soon. Patrick had requested me to brief the OBs before I left, but it was not possible due to lack of time. For more information, you can get to Mr. Joshua Matua about the conference. Finally, as we try to think about deterioration in performance, let us focus on some of the root causes and not the symptoms. Thanks Willy Ngaka --- On Tue, 10/3/09, ONZOMA APOLLO <[email protected]> wrote: From: ONZOMA APOLLO <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Terms of Reference for the Task Force To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 10 March, 2009, 3:36 PM Dear all This appears to be a very good wayforward for the life of all the future leaders who seem to be finding it very hard to show up academically in the environment at home. Am sure if we adopt a very thorough approach and start with serious consultation with the people normally involved in setting exams and marking. This is because they seem to be knowing the trend of the changes coming up but have no fora for sharing the challenges of the current education and even if they do then the impact may not be much felt. So in addition to thinking about the teachers, parents, and other levels of importance in education, i have a feeling that the key persons in dertermination of the results (i.e. examiners and markers at various levels) should be pulled together and share with us the challenges and this becomes a very good stage for begining. It is always difficult to understand why those receiving teaching on the same syllabus, and text books and from qualified teachers may not be able to pass or pass at levels that varry so much when we compare to other regions, though the differences in the economic situations have some roles to play, there could be other ways that the fora could come in to address the existing challenges. I commend the initiators of the fora and i believe that it will contribute alot to the reduction of the gap in overall performance of our region compared to the others. Let the struggle continue Apollo Onzoma From: Gilbert Adibo <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:18:11 AM Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Terms of Reference for the Task Force Sam Andema, This is the pragmatism we are talking about here now. Action and action. I concur with the specific allocation of duties that you have implicitly done in you posting a few minutes ago so that the forum gets some working documents to propel action in this noble cause. What I would only add is to have a set time frame of about to get the drafts posted for wider input of views in refining the two documents. Caleb should really be able to come with a draft in even two days time to guide workflow of the Task force. Cheers! Gilly I On 10/03/2009, samuel andema <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Caleb, Thank you for your mail. You are right we need to move the process forward. Much has been said, less has been done. It is time to start acting. We should quickly agree on the number of the task force. Some had mention seven as an ideal number but my view would that the task force should have more than seven people for pragmatic reasons. Father Rofino should generate a draft work plan or schedule and share it with members of the task force before publishing it to the rest of us for more input. While you, Caleb should volunteer to work on the terms of reference for the task force and share the terms of reference with the task force before making it public for further discussion. After soliciting our input on the work plan and the terms of reference, the task force should proceed to refine the two documents and table them again for adoption and real work begins from there. Such is my suggestion for the way forward. Thank you. Sam Andema University of British Columbia 6335 Thunderbird Crescent Vancouver, B.C Canada --- On Tue, 10/3/09, Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> wrote: From: Caleb Alaka <[email protected]> Subject: [WestNileNet] Terms of Reference for the Task Force To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, 10 March, 2009, 1:50 PM Father George, welcome on board, Father Ruffino, I believe we need a draft TOR as soon as practicable. So far if I am not mistaken, the consensus on the membership seems to be as Follows, Father Ruffino, Chairperson, Members; Ambassador Achema Harold, Andua Drani, Caleb Alaka.. I would suggest Miss Buatru and another sister. We can get other names. Meanwhile members can also contribute to our terms of reference. Please this is the beginning of a long but short Journey. Mundua, Ejiku, Andema, Obetia, and the rest what is your take on the same. 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