Tim Hartigan, Ph.D.

Language & Learning

One of my duties at Kabarore Teacher Training College is English Club on Saturday afternoons. I share the duty with Tutor Georgina from Zimbabwe. Today was my turn. The students really like to play BINGO, so we play that every week that I run EC. I give every student a “matunda” – passion fruit to play and the winner gets a couple more. I have the students lead the game, with one student acting as teacher and giving the clues. Another activity we did last week was to make fortune tellers and I asked the students how they would use them in the classroom. They had some really clever ideas of how to use them, such as for dialogues, teaching fractions and practice following oral directions. Today I gave the students chopsticks that I bought in Kigali. We played a relay race with them, but a focus was to ask them how they would use them in their classrooms. Again, they had some really clever ideas on using chopsticks to teach math, spelling, music, etc.