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                             Zambia Knowledge Centre
                            In 2010 the Zambia Knowledge Centre (ZKC) was             cessed offline.”
What a joy it was read-     identified as a new strategy within the VVOB-MoE          It takes a global village to raise a child today.
ing through the articles    programme. In January 2011 research has been un-
submitted by so many!                                                                 That is exactly what ZKC aims to do: We will collect
                            dertaken on the concept of a Knowledge Centre and it
In there the authors        was adapted to the Zambian context via inputs on a        thousands of educational websites and resources and
make a clear connection     blog called http://grmbler.wordpress.com. The official    make them available both online and offline. We want
between workshops and       name was chosen via a questionnaire on survey mon-        to tap into the local knowledge by using the local
the aftermath, with an      key. The Zambia Knowledge Centre, a digital insaka        structures (Zambia Library Service, Colleges of Edu-
emphasis on commit-         for teaching and learning, was born.                      cation, Teacher Resource Centres) and through the
ment, putting knowledge                                                               establishment of a think tank with all stakeholders.
into practice, innovation   In fact, grassroots participants found a link between     This will ensure the resources are relevant to the
and creativity, and tak-    the traditional African education and learning in the                          Zambian curriculum. We hope
ing into account the        digital age. Patrick C. Kaya-                                                  that the VVOB capacity building
sustainability factor. I    we, a lecturer at David Liv-                                                   programme will help establish a
particularly liked the      ingstone College of Educa-
observation that the
                                                                                                           community of practice in Zambia
                            tion, says that learning in the                                                and beyond on the effective use
strength and responsi-
                            African villages was mainly                                                    of these educational resources,
bility for change lays
                            informal without any struc-                                                    applications and services.
within the individual.
Throughout this News-
                            tured curriculum. Instead,
                            the learning took place un-                                                    Kasama, Malcolm Moffat and
letter one can also see
                            consciously, as most what                                                      Kitwe College of Education and
how important ICT al-
ready is and the vital      the learner learned was from                                                   Teacher Resource Centres will
role it could play for      his family, friends, and                                                       pilot projects in 2011- this aligns
increasing knowledge        hands-on experience within                                                     with the VVOB intervention on
for teachers and stu-       one’s environment. Educa-                                                      distance education, community
dents alike.                tion was haphazardly exe-                                                      schools and Action Research. A
                            cuted, at its own pace,                                                        first think tank/workgroup meet-
This is also the moment
to say good-bye to one      through its own means and                                                      ing on the Knowledge Centre
of our colleagues. Lieve    throughout the learner’s                                                       was held with all stakeholders
definitely put her mark     entire life. That’s what                                                       involved, including the Zambia
on a number of things       eLearning is all about! There is even a Bemba saying,     Library Service and community school teachers. The
while in Zambia. A sin-     “amano mambulwa”, meaning that one can access             group identified needs and decided to start building
cere Thank You!             knowledge from a variety of sources. According to         the portal on the eGranary .This so-called ‘Internet in
(Bart Rombaut, pro-         Lemmy Kangwa, lecturer at NISTCOL, this implies           a Box’ comes with a portal, search function and a
gramme manager              that a child in the village had access to knowledge       Moodle environment.
VVOB)
                            from a wide range of sources. “With facilities like the   All this to say, the Zambia Knowledge Centre has big
                            internet a student in Zambia now can access               aspirations... You can watch a clip of the official
                            knowledge and information anywhere, anytime. Even         launch of ZKC here: h p://www.youtube.com/
                            where there is no internet, some content and peda-        w tch m dby  eo (Bart Cornille, VVOB)
                            gogy can be put on CDs and DVDs or can be ac-
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                 Northern Province TRCs and KACE geared to
                 support community schools with ICTs for
                 teaching and learning
                 The Teacher Resource Centre             Everyone agreed that ICT can play        boast research for more materials
                 coordinators and the ODL commit-        a central role in improving collabo-     by teachers, as internet access is
                 tee of Kasama College of Educa-         rative support to community              still a challenge.
                 tion held a consultative meeting on     schools. The team would aim to
                                                                                                  College and TRC believe they can
                 the 19th July 2011 in Chinsali,         equip the resource centres with
                                                                                                  play a key role in this. Others, in
                 Northern province. They acknowl-        electronic libraries that could have
                                                                                                  various part of the country, could
                 edged that the stakeholders need-       lessons for teachers to use for their
                                                                                                  also use a structured approach to
                 ed to support learning and teaching     lesson preparation and teaching.
                                                                                                  enhance teacher capacity building.
                 in community schools more.              They also decided to source for
                                                         support to acquire offline education     (Lyson Chikunduzi, VVOB)
                 Several strategies were discussed.
                                                         electronic materials. This would



                          Improving my practice through action research
                          The National CPD Task Team prioritised, among             Below are some interim reflections by Maureen.
                          other things, to strengthen the capacity of doing
                                                                                    “As I am working on the Action Research (AR)
                          action research in the colleges of education. The
                                                                                    tasks and preparing for the next session I realise
                          main rationale for this was to support the use of
                                                                                    what a wonderful learning experience I have had. I
                          more differentiated and college based CPD strate-
                                                                                    have learned a lot. I, like other lecturers, am being
                          gies (leading to real change in the classroom) when
                                                                                    equipped with necessary knowledge and skills to
                          implementing college action plans, to promote
                                                                                    conduct research that can influence policy, both at
                          grass-roots (bottom-up) initiatives by staff, and to
                                                                                    local and national level. I know that my single ac-
                          develop capacity to support student teachers doing
                                                                                    tion research study is going to be helpful in improv-
                          action research with time.
                                                                                    ing my practice of teaching/lecturing and possibly
                          Three colleges of education piloted an action re-         that of other lecturers. I am looking forward to doing
                          search programme that should lead to the develop-         more. And I agree with Rust and Clark, authors of
                          ment of a specialised course offered by NISTCOL.          ‘How to do Action Research in your Classroom’
                                                                                    who state that in a case were the lecturers are
                                                                                    networked the results of the AR conducted can
                                                                                    reach far beyond single classrooms. With the great
                                                                                    influence and benefits that can be drawn from con-
                                                                                    ducting AR, I think it would be good to find a way of
                                                                                    assessing the extent to which AR training has actu-
                                                                                    ally impacted on lecturers (and their practice) who
                                                                                    have or not yet completed their training and share
                                                                                    such experiences with others possibly through your
                                                                                    newsletter. Our AR work can even be brought to-
 Action research cycles
                          The best way to learn about action research is by         gether into publications directed at influencing edu-
                          doing it. As such, participants go through a cycle of     cation policymakers at the different levels. Thank
                          the action research process with the support of           you for giving us a chance to receive training in
                          facilitators from UNZA who meet the action re-            conducting AR.”
                          searchers three times in their colleges to offer new
                                                                                    (Maureen K Kanchebele Sinyangwe, Malcolm Moffat
                          knowledge and skills. In between, action research-        College of Education and Hans Casier, VVOB)
                          ers apply the new knowledge and skills while en-
                          gaging in an action research project.
VOLUME           3   ISSUE       8                                                                                               PAGE       3




Taking Learner support
closer to students
A Moodle Skills Workshop was facili-
tated by Mr Sitali of Charles Lwanga     (Poodle), could assist them in their
College of Education at the Choma        studies. Some highlights of the
Provincial Resource Centre from 20th     programme:
to 22nd July 2011. This was a second
                                         •    Moodle is a free open source
workshop and part of VVOB’s VIS-
                                         course management system
IT4CHANGE initiative.
                                         •   Content can be created using
The main focus was on “Learner
                                         Authoring Environments such as

                                                                                      Will our visit for
Support through Moodle”. Moodle
                                         eXelearning.
is a course management system that
runs both online and offline. The
                                         •    Poodle mounts Moodle on porta-
target group was Provincial Resource
Centre Coordinators, teachers from a
                                         ble devices (e.g. USB sticks) and
                                         runs courses offline.                        change to NISTCOL
                                         •
similar workshop held last January
and Distance Education students.
                                               Moodle can upload course ma-
                                         terials (audio, video, text), and link to
                                         other resources.
                                                                                      bring change?
Three lecturers from Charles
                                                          •     Engage students       In other words the question is, was the VVOB spon-
                                                          in discussions forums       sored trip to NISTCOL beneficial? Well it depends on
                                                                                      what we were looking for: what we wanted to learn.
                                                          •    Design Assess-
                                                                                      Chipata College wanted to find out about a number of
                                                          ment with automated
                                                                                      issues and so many of our questions were answered.
                                                          feedback and grading.
                                                                                      However, for the sake of this article I would like to look
                                                          Help students and
                                                          tutors collaborate          at one thing which others may not look at as important.
                                                          using Moodle online.        What is that you may be wondering? The issue of hard
                                                          The facilitator gave        work and positive attitude in ODeL. To me that is what
                                                          the learners the confi-     impressed me the most. I feel that the right attitude
                                                          dence to start explor-      towards distance education is cardinal. Providers of this
                                                          ing Moodle by them-         kind of education should believe strongly that distance
                                                          selves. I request all       education works and can deliver the same results as the
                                                          lecturers to feel re-       preferred regular education. This is the kind of attitude
Lwanga, NISTCOL and ZAMISE               sponsible to teach ourselves and             that exudes at NISTCOL which I feel all of us who are
attended the session to learn how        each other how to use Moodle. To             beginning to set up our distance units should without fail
they can use Moodle in their own         members of grassroots: we ex-                cultivate and nurture if we want to succeed in our ODeL
work.                                    changed ideas on creating content            endeavours. It has to begin from the heart and spread
                                         using eXelearning at Barn. We can            outwards.
The objective was to motivate partici-
                                         upload that content on Moodle. Final-
pants to introduce Moodle in their                                                    There is team work and a lot of hard work at NISTCOL.
                                         ly, I would like to thank the facilitator,
institutions and on how they could                                                    It is no wonder that the college has gone a long way in
                                         my fellow participants and our coop-
use existing materials in Moodle.                                                     issues of ODeL. That is a lesson that us the novices
                                         erating partners, VVOB, for the unwa-
Participants were trained on how to                                                   should quickly take in and inculcate in other members of
                                         vering support. Stay in contact: lem-
assist students access Moodle, up-                                                    staff at our colleges. So just remember that it is about
                                         mykangwa@yahoo.com             or     ka-
load resources and provide tutorials                                                  attitude and hard work. The rest find their rightful plac-
                                         ngwashoka@gmail.com.
to students.                                                                          es. For Chipata College the visit will definitely ring
                                         (Lemmy Kangwa, NISTCOL)                      change if we embrace the two lessons I got from NIST-
The Distance Education students                                                       COL.
were picked as a pilot to assess how
Moodle, especially Portable Moodle                                                    (Masauso Njobvu, Chipata College of Education)
PAGE   4

           Incubation Lab and Apps*.                                                       Designing
           for Zambia                                                                      Specialised Courses
           A group of IT graduates/students          the box thinkers that know new        VVOB in collaboration with NISTCOL or-
           were attracted to help establish          ideas need nurturing and sup-         ganised a Workshop on how to design short
           the Zambia Knowledge Centre               port. We also know that having        courses at Barn Motel in Lusaka from 13th
           (ZKC. As part of ZKC we also              an idea is good but acting on it is   – 15th July 2011. This is because NISTCOL
           want to set up an open space for          more important. In our thinking,      is going to start offering short courses in
           the tech community with great             results are what count.               five areas namely: Collaborative learning,
           ideas that will leapfr og                 Sustainability: We firmly believe     Action research, ICT Integration in Educa-
           (sustainable) development in              in the so-called “leap-frog” ap-      tion, Lesson study and ODeL practitioners’
           Zambia. The incubation lab is             proach; we believe some appli-        course.
           freely available to any tech per-         cations and services can leap-        The courses will employ various modes of
           son in Lusaka to use once they            frog development in Zambia. To        delivery, which include, among others, port-
           become a member. The concept              us successful applications and        able moodle, distance, online and face to
           of this lab is the first of its kind in   services need to have the capac-      face modes.
           Zambia and was inspired by hubs           ity to endure.                        For collaborative learning, the course focus-
           in Kenya, Uganda, Senegal and             In 1762, J.J. Rousseau wrote          es on the importance of working together at
           Cameroon. There are great ex-             that “plants are shaped by            a learning institution to achieve positive
           pectations that an incubation lab         ‘cultivation’ and men by              results. It further brings out the skills that
           will spur a revolution in the tech-       ‘education’ ”. Both concepts          are necessary for collaboration, for both the
           nology products and services. It                 actually have times of         individual and the group. Collaboration in
                                                            seeding and harvest.           education results in positive results in
                                                            Through education, we can      teaching and learning. While action re-
                                                            start growing and flourish-    search looks at research in education, and
                                                            ing, in other words develop-   how the research findings can bring about
                                                            ing ourselves. The set-up of   positive change in education. As for ICT in
                                                            an incubation lab for tech-    integration in education, the emphasis is on
                                                            ies in Zambia aspires to be    how ICT can be incorporated into everyday
                                                            a place where seeds are        lessons to ease teaching and learning.
                                                            planted and are easily         Lesson study involves the planning and
                                                            found by the people to help    teaching of a lesson by two or more people,
                                                            them grow and ultimately       whereby together they observe, reflect and
                                                            harvest them.                  revise the lesson. The goal is to improve
           will be a space with a core focus         Have a look at one of the things      the quality of learning and teaching. The
           on giving the tech community a            these techies have been up to:        ODeL practitioners’ course gives guidelines
           community facility where they             http://                               on how tutors can run distance education
           can bring their ideas to life.            trafficwatch.crowdmap.com/            courses taking into account the nature,
           This lab can be described by              (Bart Cornille, VVOB)                 level, and commitment of adult learners.
           three keywords: innovation, crea-         *Apps.= applications                  The course also looks at aspects that ad-
           tivity and sustainability.                                                                     ministrators and tutors should
           Innovation: Innovation                                                                         take into account when de-
           generally refers to the                                                                        signing distance education,
           creation or improvement                                                                        such as mode of delivery,
           of products, technolo-                                                                         learner support, and how to
           gies, or ideas that signi-                                                                     give effective feedback to the
           fies a substantial change                                                                      distance learners.
           or difference to the world                                                                     All of the five courses will also
           of economics, business,                                                                        be placed on portable Moodle,
           entrepreneurship, health,                                                                      once fully developed.
           education etc.                                                                                (Clare Mwiinga, NISTCOL)
           Creativity: We are out-of-
VOLUME           3   ISSUE       8                                                                                                   PAGE         5




                                                                                                                           Interns
http://www.oerafrica.org: probably the largest collection of education-
al resources relevant for Africa.

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/: 77 web resources for
                                                                                 We are expecting some students from Belgium during 2012’s
teachers. Explore and experiment with new things that you might use
                                                                                 first term, as part of the VVOB internship programme. We will
in the next term.
                                                                                 soon get more details of the candidates that would love to
www.keepvid.com: With this tool you can download YouTube clips                   come to Zambia to assist colleges in ICT in education and
and use them later in the classroom.                                             module development. Does your college want to learn with
http://physion.net: A free tool that allows you to demonstrate and               and from the Belgian students (Bachelor education)? Are you
simulate laws of nature, such as gravity, friction, levers, …                    having exciting and innovative teaching and learning plans
                                                                                 which could use some on-site assistance? Do you think your
http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com: explore the human body in 3D                  college is interested in hosting one of the students? Can you
with this tool. It will only work when you use Google Chrome v.9 en
                                                                                 provide a tutor and accommodation? Let us know as soon as
Firefox v.4.
                                                                                 possible and we can link you up. Contact
                                                                                 bart.cornille@vvob.org.zm. (LL)
(BC  LL)



                                                      @
 The ‘Doug
    Reeves
plenary’ - a
  mountain
   of ideas                                                                           All participants of the Lead and Learn Zambia seminar


I foresee readers asking “What is the            superlative performance. We normally only          whose message was tailored to explain the
Reeves Plenary?”. You might know it as           do that when there are problems. This is           purpose of assessment. You could literally
“Lead and Learn Zambia seminar”, which           interesting isn’t it?                              feel the thrill of the atmosphere around as it
took place from 30 May till 3 June 2011.         When it was the turn of the ‘instructional         lightly pated its warm, entertaining and edu-
All the colleges of education and UNZA,          strategies group’ the audience was bom-            cative fingers on your body. The message
DODE, ESS, Standards and other stake-            barded with new terminologies such as Fray-        was clear that assessment must be, among
holders, convened to share fascinating ideas     er model, comparison matrix, thinking like a       other things, timely and consistent.
with respect to instructional coaching, as-      reporter, graphical organisers (this is just the   I do not think it is possible to forget the infor-
sessment, instructional strategies and lead-     tip of the iceberg). I know you are burning        mation that I got from the coaching team.
ership during the Reeves plenary. Each of        with the desire to know the meaning of             Who on earth would have resisted the urge
the groups explored one field and before         thinking like a reporter strategy. If you are      to laugh when they gave amazing descrip-
sunset the results of their findings were then   a tutor or teacher you will probably find this     tions of the four categories of coachees.
made known to the audience at the plenary.       strategy useful in exploring themes in your        Namely: ‘believers’, ‘fundamentalists’,
But let me reveal some of the highlights from    learning area with the five W questions plus       ‘survivors’ and’ twiners’. I will not dare to
each category that you will definitely find      one ‘H’ (who, what, when, where, why and           delve into each of these concepts for now.
intriguing.                                      how questions).                                    Ideas piled on other ideas until we just had a
One of the things the leadership group           I still marvel at the fantastic gimmicks that      mountain of ideas. It is true the ‘Reeves
shared with us was that a school could invite    the assessment team used to present their          plenary’ was a mountain of ideas.
parents to join in celebrating their child’s     work. The group had composed a song                (Moses Musonda, Kasama College of Education)
PAGE   6


                             Allow me to quick-
                             ly narrate a short
                             story. Scholars of
                                                          Use it or lose it
                                                      What point is here? What lesson is
                             Evolution       have                                               teaching methodologies and in our
                                                      this?                                     assessment? Have we implemented
                             argued that, once
                             upon a time, gi-                                                   instructional coaching in our institu-
                                                      We have learned a great deal of
                             raffe had a very                                                   tions even to a lesser degree? Are
                                                      lessons in instructional coaching,
                             short neck just like                                               we using the beautiful ideas we have
                                                      teaching strategies, instructional
                             any other ordinary                                                 learned? Or, are we losing our
                                                      assessment and leadership. May I
           mammal. It so happened that a                                                        knowledge gradually due to lack of
                                                      invite you to answer the following
           drought struck, hunger reigned and                                                   practice?
                                                      questions (this is no cross examina-
           starvation rocked the jungle so much       tion time): Are we using our great        Now at this point, I would like to sug-
           that the animals that did not adapt        ideas Lead and Learn Centre has           gest to my dear reader to pause and
           immediately to this harsh environ-         shared with us? Have we taken a bit       replace the we in the forgoing discus-
           ment died out. Please do not give up       of time out of our very busy schedule     sion with I so that the passage reads
           this soon because I will turn away         to implement what we have learned?        I have learned a great deal of les-
           from this science and clarify the                                                                     sons in instructional
           point I am trying to drive home.                                                                      coaching, teaching
           Yes, science (especially Evolu-                                                                       strategies and, as-
           tion) can be disgustingly boring.                                                                     sessment. As we
           The clever giraffe began to                                                                           read we have to be
           stretch its neck regularly with a                                                                     alive to the fact that if
           strong conviction that one day its                                                                    we do not use it
           neck would elongate substantially                                                                     (knowledge) we will
           so as to be able to browse                                                                            lose it? You and I
           (feeding on tree tops) to supple-                                                                     would,       definitely,
           ment grazing. The giraffe did this                                                                    make a difference.
           steadfastly for a long time. I need                                                                   We have the poten-
           to reveal to you that all its rela-                                                                   tial; we have all it
           tives did likewise up until every                                                                     takes to turn around
           giraffe in the jungle was able to                                                                     the situation for the
                                                      How much have our students benefit-       better.
           browse with ease. Of course, the few
                                                      ed from this? Or are the LLZ semi-
           stubborn members of the giraffe                                                      Use it or lose it!
                                                      nars we attend simply an academic
           family that could not heed advice
                                                      exercise? Have we made even a             (Moses Musonda, Kasama College of
           perished along with other animals as
                                                      slight difference by implementing the     Education)
           hunger swept through. This is natural
                                                      smallest idea? Do we see an im-
           selection.
                                                      provement in our leadership style,


       What I learned                               many students become more active
                                                    than when they are asked to express
                                                                                              (Matson Kawanda, Solwezi College of
                                                                                              Education)
                                                    their problems orally.
       The seminar was well programmed
       and indeed beneficial to me. The dis-        Group experts, market vend-
       cussion and new experiences, particu-        ing, text rendering, just to men-
       larly on the instructional strategies        tion a few, were greatly fa-
       gave me a new position. From a too           voured by many students. The
       talkative lecturer to a facilitator.         camera was used to the maxi-
                                                    mum. My students take the
       Shortly after the seminar, I really want-
                                                    class room a better place for
       ed to employ the strategies; to be spe-
                                                    them than being absent.
       cific the parking lot. I discovered that
VOLUME           3   ISSUE        8                                                                                             PAGE        7




Are you a leader?
                                                                                           So much has been learned and appreciated. The
                                                                                           necessary skills have been acquired. But the ques-
                                                                                           tion is “who has been the driving force behind all
                                                                                           this great knowledge we have gained and that we
The next Lead and Learn Zambia                done with the learnings from last            can proudly brag about? Who has been master-
seminar will be held from 23 to 27th          seminar. They will follow your contri-       minding the operations leading to the acquisition of
April 2012. The third seminar as part         butions to the website, yammer, face-        knowledge?”
of the partnership with the Leadership        book and blogs of both Lead and              Lieve set her
and Learning Center (LLC) will be a           Learn and VVOB. They will read               foot on Zambian     I don’t want to
special one. Not only will several            Learning Files and Newsletters. They         soil in October,
facilitators travel from the USA, but         will await your reactions on their           2008. Lieve is:      say farewell,
also Zambian facilitators will be pre-
sent.
                                              emails. Those active, committed con-
                                              tributors who can show evidence of
                                                                                           gallant, jovial,
                                                                                           hospitable, frien-
                                                                                                                   Lieve.
                                              changed practices in their workplace         dly, creative,
LLC is planning a special training in
                                              will be the leaders in the next seminar      hardworking and intelligently focused. Above all
January to prepare the next seminar
                                              and will get a special training from 23      else, her sense of time coupled with sharp willing-
in April 2012. The January training
                                              to 27th January 2012..                       ness to work long hours intrigues me. Hans is a
will only be for leaders. Who are lead-
                                              Will you be that leader?                     formidable company, but he will soon realise that
ers? Leaders are not necessarily
                                                                                           their work was more complete together (Lieve and
college staff in management posi-             (LL)                                         Hans) than when alone.
tions, such as HODs, principals or
vice-principals. Leaders are those                                                         There is nothing I can say that would really explain
members of staff that show initiative                                                      our heartfelt appreciation for Lieve’s contribution
and commitment towards changing                                                            towards improving teaching and learning in Colleges
their own practice and sharing this                                                        of Education in Zambia. On behalf of all honourable
with others. Leaders can be partici-                                                       members of the national task team, I wish to shout a
pants of the previous Lead and Learn                                                       big THANK YOU.
Zambia seminar who specialised in                                                          Lieve, you have made a difference. You may still
either instructional strategies, instruc-                                                  have a ‘dream’, but I would like to whisper: ‘you
tional coaching, leadership or forma-                                                      have realised most CPD dreams’. You may not
tive assessment.                                                                           stretch yourself to more than necessary, because if I
To identify leaders, LLC will set clear                                                    look back and contemplate the achievements, I can
criteria. They will check how active                                                       see a milestone was achieved in Colleges in relation
people demonstrate what they have                                                          to CPD.
                                                                                           One thing is certain, the presence of the VVOB
                                                                                           team in Zambia guarantees success. Moreover, the
                                                                                           efforts and the desire to change of TT members

                                            Questioning the questions                      rekindle our hope and expectations.
                                                                                           At interpersonal level, Lieve will continue to be my
                                                                                           good and critical friend. “It takes time to grow an old
                                                                                           friend”. Yes, (Astrid was correct) bidding farewell is
                                            Have you had time to reflect on the type       not that easy. I don’t want to say farewell, Lieve!
                                            of questions that you set for your stu-        You are great!
                                            dents? I am sure most of us do not criti-
                                            cally consider setting questions accord-       (Moses Musonda, Kasama College of Education)
                                            ing to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most of us
                                            may set questions based on lower levels
                                            of learning and leaving out the higher
                                                                                         Read the new learning file! (Crispin
                                            level learning. Here is a guide for you to
                                                                                         Maambo, NISTCOL)
                                            improve your questioning techniques.
Goodbye                                                                           Elephants continue to
I am jogging through the streets of Jes-                                          surprise the residents of
mondine, Lusaka. I have reached the stage
where the body has adopted a certain pace
                                                                                  DALICE
and rhythm. I see the red glow of the sun,
getting ready to set for the night. My mind is                                    In the early morning hours of today, 19th July, around 02.30
drifting off. I know it is time to say goodbye. I                                 hours three BIG elephants visited the college garden again. They
jog through my memories.                                                          uprooted tomato and cabbage plants after breaking the 22nd
                                                                                  panel of the brick wall fence. They continued to terrorise the
I remember the 6 musketeers developing the draft Teaching and                     garden undisturbed as no one could dare do anything about the
Learning Policy at MEF in Kitwe. It was pioneering work, much appre-              situation. When they got fed up of tomatoes and cabbages, they
ciated by all members of the CPD task team. Having a policy is one                headed for the lecturers residences and broke the wire fence
thing. Doing something with it, is another issue. Do you remember the             between Mr. Kayawe and Mr. Chisala's houses. They first de-
lively discussions when we were role-playing the college self-                    stroyed Mr.Chisala's crops and plantation trees then headed for
evaluation? But everyone gathered enough courage to go through the                Mr. Kayawe's garden, destroying vegetables, banana and paw-
process at the college. For the first time each college was evaluating            paw trees.
itself! As part of the coaching team I visited all the colleges. I ob-
                                                                                  Mr.     C h is a l a
served and interviewed, got to know wonderful people. I found eager-
                                                                                  heard them first
ness to learn and willingness to change. As I jogged through Chipata,
                                                                                  and quickly alert-
Mongu, Monze, Kitwe, Solwezi, Mansa, Kasama, Serenje, Living-
                                                                                  ed the Principal
stone, Mufulira and Lusaka I found some innovative, initiative taking,            and the rest of
enthusiastic people jogging with me. I learned so many things from                the neighbours
my fellow joggers: how to pace myself, how to jump over yet another               who all woke up
bump in the road, how to coach and convince more people to run with               but could only
us. Together we climbed lots of hills and enjoyed the beautiful views. I          watch through
will miss sceneries of action plan fairs and college interactions. I will         the safety of their
the warmth and friendship. I will not miss the dust along the Zambian             house windows
roads. Dust came in many forms: sometimes called ‘allowance de-                   as the animals
pendent culture’, or ‘lack of communication’ or ‘poor (self) reflection’ or       continued to
‘late action plans’. It left a foul taste and a dry mouth. Fortunately            roam and ravage
there was always a glass of fresh water in the form of entries for                the compound.
learning files and newsletters, in the form of a joined module writing            They moved to
journey, a question asked via skype, or an active grasshopper.                    Mr. Katolo, Mr.
                                                                                  Chisanga and
Is this run coming to an end? No it isn’t. It has hardly started. I believe
                                                                                  Mr. Mwaanga's
that you, the key athletes of this programme, have many more hills to
                                                                                  houses destroying whatever came their way.
climb, dust to clear and sceneries to enjoy on a continued journey. I
will soon start jogging in South Africa but I will feel your presence and         While this destruction was going on, the Principal made efforts to
we will meet again.                                                               summon the Zambia Wild Life Authority officers. But this was
                                                                                  futile as … [Continue reading on DALICE’s website: http://
Thanks for running with me! (Lieve Leroy, VVOB)
                                                                                  www.dalice.ac.zm

                                                                                  (Patrick Kayawe, David Livingstone College of Education)
                                         Did you read about
                                         graphic organisers
                                         in the article about
                                         the Lead and Learn
                                         Zambia seminar on                    The VVOB is the Flemish Association for Development Co-operation and Tech-
                                         page 4 of this news-                 nical Assistance, a non-profit organisation. By order of the Flemish and Belgian
                                         letter? Are you also                 government we contribute to the improvement of quality of the education in
                                         curious about what                   developing countries. Our core task is to provide technical assistance in pro-
                                         these are? Read the                  jects and programmes in the South. This way VVOB makes a major contribu-
                                                                              tion to local capacity development, a means to stimulate sustainable develop-
                                         learning file on
                                                                              ment and poverty reduction.
                                         graphic organisers.
                                         (LL)                                 VVOB vzw Zambia, CDC Building, Haile Selasie Avenue, Long Acres, Lusaka,
                                                                              PO Box 31204, 10101 Lusaka, T/F 211 255154, http://www.vvob.be,
                                                                              info@vvob.org.zm

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T each and learn vol 3 issue 8 small

  • 1. V O L U M E 3 I S S U E 8 A U G U S T 2 0 1 1 Zambia Knowledge Centre In 2010 the Zambia Knowledge Centre (ZKC) was cessed offline.” What a joy it was read- identified as a new strategy within the VVOB-MoE It takes a global village to raise a child today. ing through the articles programme. In January 2011 research has been un- submitted by so many! That is exactly what ZKC aims to do: We will collect dertaken on the concept of a Knowledge Centre and it In there the authors was adapted to the Zambian context via inputs on a thousands of educational websites and resources and make a clear connection blog called http://grmbler.wordpress.com. The official make them available both online and offline. We want between workshops and name was chosen via a questionnaire on survey mon- to tap into the local knowledge by using the local the aftermath, with an key. The Zambia Knowledge Centre, a digital insaka structures (Zambia Library Service, Colleges of Edu- emphasis on commit- for teaching and learning, was born. cation, Teacher Resource Centres) and through the ment, putting knowledge establishment of a think tank with all stakeholders. into practice, innovation In fact, grassroots participants found a link between This will ensure the resources are relevant to the and creativity, and tak- the traditional African education and learning in the Zambian curriculum. We hope ing into account the digital age. Patrick C. Kaya- that the VVOB capacity building sustainability factor. I we, a lecturer at David Liv- programme will help establish a particularly liked the ingstone College of Educa- observation that the community of practice in Zambia tion, says that learning in the and beyond on the effective use strength and responsi- African villages was mainly of these educational resources, bility for change lays informal without any struc- applications and services. within the individual. Throughout this News- tured curriculum. Instead, the learning took place un- Kasama, Malcolm Moffat and letter one can also see consciously, as most what Kitwe College of Education and how important ICT al- ready is and the vital the learner learned was from Teacher Resource Centres will role it could play for his family, friends, and pilot projects in 2011- this aligns increasing knowledge hands-on experience within with the VVOB intervention on for teachers and stu- one’s environment. Educa- distance education, community dents alike. tion was haphazardly exe- schools and Action Research. A cuted, at its own pace, first think tank/workgroup meet- This is also the moment to say good-bye to one through its own means and ing on the Knowledge Centre of our colleagues. Lieve throughout the learner’s was held with all stakeholders definitely put her mark entire life. That’s what involved, including the Zambia on a number of things eLearning is all about! There is even a Bemba saying, Library Service and community school teachers. The while in Zambia. A sin- “amano mambulwa”, meaning that one can access group identified needs and decided to start building cere Thank You! knowledge from a variety of sources. According to the portal on the eGranary .This so-called ‘Internet in (Bart Rombaut, pro- Lemmy Kangwa, lecturer at NISTCOL, this implies a Box’ comes with a portal, search function and a gramme manager that a child in the village had access to knowledge Moodle environment. VVOB) from a wide range of sources. “With facilities like the All this to say, the Zambia Knowledge Centre has big internet a student in Zambia now can access aspirations... You can watch a clip of the official knowledge and information anywhere, anytime. Even launch of ZKC here: h p://www.youtube.com/ where there is no internet, some content and peda- w tch m dby eo (Bart Cornille, VVOB) gogy can be put on CDs and DVDs or can be ac-
  • 2. PAGE 2 Northern Province TRCs and KACE geared to support community schools with ICTs for teaching and learning The Teacher Resource Centre Everyone agreed that ICT can play boast research for more materials coordinators and the ODL commit- a central role in improving collabo- by teachers, as internet access is tee of Kasama College of Educa- rative support to community still a challenge. tion held a consultative meeting on schools. The team would aim to College and TRC believe they can the 19th July 2011 in Chinsali, equip the resource centres with play a key role in this. Others, in Northern province. They acknowl- electronic libraries that could have various part of the country, could edged that the stakeholders need- lessons for teachers to use for their also use a structured approach to ed to support learning and teaching lesson preparation and teaching. enhance teacher capacity building. in community schools more. They also decided to source for support to acquire offline education (Lyson Chikunduzi, VVOB) Several strategies were discussed. electronic materials. This would Improving my practice through action research The National CPD Task Team prioritised, among Below are some interim reflections by Maureen. other things, to strengthen the capacity of doing “As I am working on the Action Research (AR) action research in the colleges of education. The tasks and preparing for the next session I realise main rationale for this was to support the use of what a wonderful learning experience I have had. I more differentiated and college based CPD strate- have learned a lot. I, like other lecturers, am being gies (leading to real change in the classroom) when equipped with necessary knowledge and skills to implementing college action plans, to promote conduct research that can influence policy, both at grass-roots (bottom-up) initiatives by staff, and to local and national level. I know that my single ac- develop capacity to support student teachers doing tion research study is going to be helpful in improv- action research with time. ing my practice of teaching/lecturing and possibly Three colleges of education piloted an action re- that of other lecturers. I am looking forward to doing search programme that should lead to the develop- more. And I agree with Rust and Clark, authors of ment of a specialised course offered by NISTCOL. ‘How to do Action Research in your Classroom’ who state that in a case were the lecturers are networked the results of the AR conducted can reach far beyond single classrooms. With the great influence and benefits that can be drawn from con- ducting AR, I think it would be good to find a way of assessing the extent to which AR training has actu- ally impacted on lecturers (and their practice) who have or not yet completed their training and share such experiences with others possibly through your newsletter. Our AR work can even be brought to- Action research cycles The best way to learn about action research is by gether into publications directed at influencing edu- doing it. As such, participants go through a cycle of cation policymakers at the different levels. Thank the action research process with the support of you for giving us a chance to receive training in facilitators from UNZA who meet the action re- conducting AR.” searchers three times in their colleges to offer new (Maureen K Kanchebele Sinyangwe, Malcolm Moffat knowledge and skills. In between, action research- College of Education and Hans Casier, VVOB) ers apply the new knowledge and skills while en- gaging in an action research project.
  • 3. VOLUME 3 ISSUE 8 PAGE 3 Taking Learner support closer to students A Moodle Skills Workshop was facili- tated by Mr Sitali of Charles Lwanga (Poodle), could assist them in their College of Education at the Choma studies. Some highlights of the Provincial Resource Centre from 20th programme: to 22nd July 2011. This was a second • Moodle is a free open source workshop and part of VVOB’s VIS- course management system IT4CHANGE initiative. • Content can be created using The main focus was on “Learner Authoring Environments such as Will our visit for Support through Moodle”. Moodle eXelearning. is a course management system that runs both online and offline. The • Poodle mounts Moodle on porta- target group was Provincial Resource Centre Coordinators, teachers from a ble devices (e.g. USB sticks) and runs courses offline. change to NISTCOL • similar workshop held last January and Distance Education students. Moodle can upload course ma- terials (audio, video, text), and link to other resources. bring change? Three lecturers from Charles • Engage students In other words the question is, was the VVOB spon- in discussions forums sored trip to NISTCOL beneficial? Well it depends on what we were looking for: what we wanted to learn. • Design Assess- Chipata College wanted to find out about a number of ment with automated issues and so many of our questions were answered. feedback and grading. However, for the sake of this article I would like to look Help students and tutors collaborate at one thing which others may not look at as important. using Moodle online. What is that you may be wondering? The issue of hard The facilitator gave work and positive attitude in ODeL. To me that is what the learners the confi- impressed me the most. I feel that the right attitude dence to start explor- towards distance education is cardinal. Providers of this ing Moodle by them- kind of education should believe strongly that distance selves. I request all education works and can deliver the same results as the lecturers to feel re- preferred regular education. This is the kind of attitude Lwanga, NISTCOL and ZAMISE sponsible to teach ourselves and that exudes at NISTCOL which I feel all of us who are attended the session to learn how each other how to use Moodle. To beginning to set up our distance units should without fail they can use Moodle in their own members of grassroots: we ex- cultivate and nurture if we want to succeed in our ODeL work. changed ideas on creating content endeavours. It has to begin from the heart and spread using eXelearning at Barn. We can outwards. The objective was to motivate partici- upload that content on Moodle. Final- pants to introduce Moodle in their There is team work and a lot of hard work at NISTCOL. ly, I would like to thank the facilitator, institutions and on how they could It is no wonder that the college has gone a long way in my fellow participants and our coop- use existing materials in Moodle. issues of ODeL. That is a lesson that us the novices erating partners, VVOB, for the unwa- Participants were trained on how to should quickly take in and inculcate in other members of vering support. Stay in contact: lem- assist students access Moodle, up- staff at our colleges. So just remember that it is about mykangwa@yahoo.com or ka- load resources and provide tutorials attitude and hard work. The rest find their rightful plac- ngwashoka@gmail.com. to students. es. For Chipata College the visit will definitely ring (Lemmy Kangwa, NISTCOL) change if we embrace the two lessons I got from NIST- The Distance Education students COL. were picked as a pilot to assess how Moodle, especially Portable Moodle (Masauso Njobvu, Chipata College of Education)
  • 4. PAGE 4 Incubation Lab and Apps*. Designing for Zambia Specialised Courses A group of IT graduates/students the box thinkers that know new VVOB in collaboration with NISTCOL or- were attracted to help establish ideas need nurturing and sup- ganised a Workshop on how to design short the Zambia Knowledge Centre port. We also know that having courses at Barn Motel in Lusaka from 13th (ZKC. As part of ZKC we also an idea is good but acting on it is – 15th July 2011. This is because NISTCOL want to set up an open space for more important. In our thinking, is going to start offering short courses in the tech community with great results are what count. five areas namely: Collaborative learning, ideas that will leapfr og Sustainability: We firmly believe Action research, ICT Integration in Educa- (sustainable) development in in the so-called “leap-frog” ap- tion, Lesson study and ODeL practitioners’ Zambia. The incubation lab is proach; we believe some appli- course. freely available to any tech per- cations and services can leap- The courses will employ various modes of son in Lusaka to use once they frog development in Zambia. To delivery, which include, among others, port- become a member. The concept us successful applications and able moodle, distance, online and face to of this lab is the first of its kind in services need to have the capac- face modes. Zambia and was inspired by hubs ity to endure. For collaborative learning, the course focus- in Kenya, Uganda, Senegal and In 1762, J.J. Rousseau wrote es on the importance of working together at Cameroon. There are great ex- that “plants are shaped by a learning institution to achieve positive pectations that an incubation lab ‘cultivation’ and men by results. It further brings out the skills that will spur a revolution in the tech- ‘education’ ”. Both concepts are necessary for collaboration, for both the nology products and services. It actually have times of individual and the group. Collaboration in seeding and harvest. education results in positive results in Through education, we can teaching and learning. While action re- start growing and flourish- search looks at research in education, and ing, in other words develop- how the research findings can bring about ing ourselves. The set-up of positive change in education. As for ICT in an incubation lab for tech- integration in education, the emphasis is on ies in Zambia aspires to be how ICT can be incorporated into everyday a place where seeds are lessons to ease teaching and learning. planted and are easily Lesson study involves the planning and found by the people to help teaching of a lesson by two or more people, them grow and ultimately whereby together they observe, reflect and harvest them. revise the lesson. The goal is to improve will be a space with a core focus Have a look at one of the things the quality of learning and teaching. The on giving the tech community a these techies have been up to: ODeL practitioners’ course gives guidelines community facility where they http:// on how tutors can run distance education can bring their ideas to life. trafficwatch.crowdmap.com/ courses taking into account the nature, This lab can be described by (Bart Cornille, VVOB) level, and commitment of adult learners. three keywords: innovation, crea- *Apps.= applications The course also looks at aspects that ad- tivity and sustainability. ministrators and tutors should Innovation: Innovation take into account when de- generally refers to the signing distance education, creation or improvement such as mode of delivery, of products, technolo- learner support, and how to gies, or ideas that signi- give effective feedback to the fies a substantial change distance learners. or difference to the world All of the five courses will also of economics, business, be placed on portable Moodle, entrepreneurship, health, once fully developed. education etc. (Clare Mwiinga, NISTCOL) Creativity: We are out-of-
  • 5. VOLUME 3 ISSUE 8 PAGE 5 Interns http://www.oerafrica.org: probably the largest collection of education- al resources relevant for Africa. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/06/: 77 web resources for We are expecting some students from Belgium during 2012’s teachers. Explore and experiment with new things that you might use first term, as part of the VVOB internship programme. We will in the next term. soon get more details of the candidates that would love to www.keepvid.com: With this tool you can download YouTube clips come to Zambia to assist colleges in ICT in education and and use them later in the classroom. module development. Does your college want to learn with http://physion.net: A free tool that allows you to demonstrate and and from the Belgian students (Bachelor education)? Are you simulate laws of nature, such as gravity, friction, levers, … having exciting and innovative teaching and learning plans which could use some on-site assistance? Do you think your http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com: explore the human body in 3D college is interested in hosting one of the students? Can you with this tool. It will only work when you use Google Chrome v.9 en provide a tutor and accommodation? Let us know as soon as Firefox v.4. possible and we can link you up. Contact bart.cornille@vvob.org.zm. (LL) (BC LL) @ The ‘Doug Reeves plenary’ - a mountain of ideas All participants of the Lead and Learn Zambia seminar I foresee readers asking “What is the superlative performance. We normally only whose message was tailored to explain the Reeves Plenary?”. You might know it as do that when there are problems. This is purpose of assessment. You could literally “Lead and Learn Zambia seminar”, which interesting isn’t it? feel the thrill of the atmosphere around as it took place from 30 May till 3 June 2011. When it was the turn of the ‘instructional lightly pated its warm, entertaining and edu- All the colleges of education and UNZA, strategies group’ the audience was bom- cative fingers on your body. The message DODE, ESS, Standards and other stake- barded with new terminologies such as Fray- was clear that assessment must be, among holders, convened to share fascinating ideas er model, comparison matrix, thinking like a other things, timely and consistent. with respect to instructional coaching, as- reporter, graphical organisers (this is just the I do not think it is possible to forget the infor- sessment, instructional strategies and lead- tip of the iceberg). I know you are burning mation that I got from the coaching team. ership during the Reeves plenary. Each of with the desire to know the meaning of Who on earth would have resisted the urge the groups explored one field and before thinking like a reporter strategy. If you are to laugh when they gave amazing descrip- sunset the results of their findings were then a tutor or teacher you will probably find this tions of the four categories of coachees. made known to the audience at the plenary. strategy useful in exploring themes in your Namely: ‘believers’, ‘fundamentalists’, But let me reveal some of the highlights from learning area with the five W questions plus ‘survivors’ and’ twiners’. I will not dare to each category that you will definitely find one ‘H’ (who, what, when, where, why and delve into each of these concepts for now. intriguing. how questions). Ideas piled on other ideas until we just had a One of the things the leadership group I still marvel at the fantastic gimmicks that mountain of ideas. It is true the ‘Reeves shared with us was that a school could invite the assessment team used to present their plenary’ was a mountain of ideas. parents to join in celebrating their child’s work. The group had composed a song (Moses Musonda, Kasama College of Education)
  • 6. PAGE 6 Allow me to quick- ly narrate a short story. Scholars of Use it or lose it What point is here? What lesson is Evolution have teaching methodologies and in our this? assessment? Have we implemented argued that, once upon a time, gi- instructional coaching in our institu- We have learned a great deal of raffe had a very tions even to a lesser degree? Are lessons in instructional coaching, short neck just like we using the beautiful ideas we have teaching strategies, instructional any other ordinary learned? Or, are we losing our assessment and leadership. May I mammal. It so happened that a knowledge gradually due to lack of invite you to answer the following drought struck, hunger reigned and practice? questions (this is no cross examina- starvation rocked the jungle so much tion time): Are we using our great Now at this point, I would like to sug- that the animals that did not adapt ideas Lead and Learn Centre has gest to my dear reader to pause and immediately to this harsh environ- shared with us? Have we taken a bit replace the we in the forgoing discus- ment died out. Please do not give up of time out of our very busy schedule sion with I so that the passage reads this soon because I will turn away to implement what we have learned? I have learned a great deal of les- from this science and clarify the sons in instructional point I am trying to drive home. coaching, teaching Yes, science (especially Evolu- strategies and, as- tion) can be disgustingly boring. sessment. As we The clever giraffe began to read we have to be stretch its neck regularly with a alive to the fact that if strong conviction that one day its we do not use it neck would elongate substantially (knowledge) we will so as to be able to browse lose it? You and I (feeding on tree tops) to supple- would, definitely, ment grazing. The giraffe did this make a difference. steadfastly for a long time. I need We have the poten- to reveal to you that all its rela- tial; we have all it tives did likewise up until every takes to turn around giraffe in the jungle was able to the situation for the How much have our students benefit- better. browse with ease. Of course, the few ed from this? Or are the LLZ semi- stubborn members of the giraffe Use it or lose it! nars we attend simply an academic family that could not heed advice exercise? Have we made even a (Moses Musonda, Kasama College of perished along with other animals as slight difference by implementing the Education) hunger swept through. This is natural smallest idea? Do we see an im- selection. provement in our leadership style, What I learned many students become more active than when they are asked to express (Matson Kawanda, Solwezi College of Education) their problems orally. The seminar was well programmed and indeed beneficial to me. The dis- Group experts, market vend- cussion and new experiences, particu- ing, text rendering, just to men- larly on the instructional strategies tion a few, were greatly fa- gave me a new position. From a too voured by many students. The talkative lecturer to a facilitator. camera was used to the maxi- mum. My students take the Shortly after the seminar, I really want- class room a better place for ed to employ the strategies; to be spe- them than being absent. cific the parking lot. I discovered that
  • 7. VOLUME 3 ISSUE 8 PAGE 7 Are you a leader? So much has been learned and appreciated. The necessary skills have been acquired. But the ques- tion is “who has been the driving force behind all this great knowledge we have gained and that we The next Lead and Learn Zambia done with the learnings from last can proudly brag about? Who has been master- seminar will be held from 23 to 27th seminar. They will follow your contri- minding the operations leading to the acquisition of April 2012. The third seminar as part butions to the website, yammer, face- knowledge?” of the partnership with the Leadership book and blogs of both Lead and Lieve set her and Learning Center (LLC) will be a Learn and VVOB. They will read foot on Zambian I don’t want to special one. Not only will several Learning Files and Newsletters. They soil in October, facilitators travel from the USA, but will await your reactions on their 2008. Lieve is: say farewell, also Zambian facilitators will be pre- sent. emails. Those active, committed con- tributors who can show evidence of gallant, jovial, hospitable, frien- Lieve. changed practices in their workplace dly, creative, LLC is planning a special training in will be the leaders in the next seminar hardworking and intelligently focused. Above all January to prepare the next seminar and will get a special training from 23 else, her sense of time coupled with sharp willing- in April 2012. The January training to 27th January 2012.. ness to work long hours intrigues me. Hans is a will only be for leaders. Who are lead- Will you be that leader? formidable company, but he will soon realise that ers? Leaders are not necessarily their work was more complete together (Lieve and college staff in management posi- (LL) Hans) than when alone. tions, such as HODs, principals or vice-principals. Leaders are those There is nothing I can say that would really explain members of staff that show initiative our heartfelt appreciation for Lieve’s contribution and commitment towards changing towards improving teaching and learning in Colleges their own practice and sharing this of Education in Zambia. On behalf of all honourable with others. Leaders can be partici- members of the national task team, I wish to shout a pants of the previous Lead and Learn big THANK YOU. Zambia seminar who specialised in Lieve, you have made a difference. You may still either instructional strategies, instruc- have a ‘dream’, but I would like to whisper: ‘you tional coaching, leadership or forma- have realised most CPD dreams’. You may not tive assessment. stretch yourself to more than necessary, because if I To identify leaders, LLC will set clear look back and contemplate the achievements, I can criteria. They will check how active see a milestone was achieved in Colleges in relation people demonstrate what they have to CPD. One thing is certain, the presence of the VVOB team in Zambia guarantees success. Moreover, the efforts and the desire to change of TT members Questioning the questions rekindle our hope and expectations. At interpersonal level, Lieve will continue to be my good and critical friend. “It takes time to grow an old friend”. Yes, (Astrid was correct) bidding farewell is Have you had time to reflect on the type not that easy. I don’t want to say farewell, Lieve! of questions that you set for your stu- You are great! dents? I am sure most of us do not criti- cally consider setting questions accord- (Moses Musonda, Kasama College of Education) ing to Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most of us may set questions based on lower levels of learning and leaving out the higher Read the new learning file! (Crispin level learning. Here is a guide for you to Maambo, NISTCOL) improve your questioning techniques.
  • 8. Goodbye Elephants continue to I am jogging through the streets of Jes- surprise the residents of mondine, Lusaka. I have reached the stage where the body has adopted a certain pace DALICE and rhythm. I see the red glow of the sun, getting ready to set for the night. My mind is In the early morning hours of today, 19th July, around 02.30 drifting off. I know it is time to say goodbye. I hours three BIG elephants visited the college garden again. They jog through my memories. uprooted tomato and cabbage plants after breaking the 22nd panel of the brick wall fence. They continued to terrorise the I remember the 6 musketeers developing the draft Teaching and garden undisturbed as no one could dare do anything about the Learning Policy at MEF in Kitwe. It was pioneering work, much appre- situation. When they got fed up of tomatoes and cabbages, they ciated by all members of the CPD task team. Having a policy is one headed for the lecturers residences and broke the wire fence thing. Doing something with it, is another issue. Do you remember the between Mr. Kayawe and Mr. Chisala's houses. They first de- lively discussions when we were role-playing the college self- stroyed Mr.Chisala's crops and plantation trees then headed for evaluation? But everyone gathered enough courage to go through the Mr. Kayawe's garden, destroying vegetables, banana and paw- process at the college. For the first time each college was evaluating paw trees. itself! As part of the coaching team I visited all the colleges. I ob- Mr. C h is a l a served and interviewed, got to know wonderful people. I found eager- heard them first ness to learn and willingness to change. As I jogged through Chipata, and quickly alert- Mongu, Monze, Kitwe, Solwezi, Mansa, Kasama, Serenje, Living- ed the Principal stone, Mufulira and Lusaka I found some innovative, initiative taking, and the rest of enthusiastic people jogging with me. I learned so many things from the neighbours my fellow joggers: how to pace myself, how to jump over yet another who all woke up bump in the road, how to coach and convince more people to run with but could only us. Together we climbed lots of hills and enjoyed the beautiful views. I watch through will miss sceneries of action plan fairs and college interactions. I will the safety of their the warmth and friendship. I will not miss the dust along the Zambian house windows roads. Dust came in many forms: sometimes called ‘allowance de- as the animals pendent culture’, or ‘lack of communication’ or ‘poor (self) reflection’ or continued to ‘late action plans’. It left a foul taste and a dry mouth. Fortunately roam and ravage there was always a glass of fresh water in the form of entries for the compound. learning files and newsletters, in the form of a joined module writing They moved to journey, a question asked via skype, or an active grasshopper. Mr. Katolo, Mr. Chisanga and Is this run coming to an end? No it isn’t. It has hardly started. I believe Mr. Mwaanga's that you, the key athletes of this programme, have many more hills to houses destroying whatever came their way. climb, dust to clear and sceneries to enjoy on a continued journey. I will soon start jogging in South Africa but I will feel your presence and While this destruction was going on, the Principal made efforts to we will meet again. summon the Zambia Wild Life Authority officers. But this was futile as … [Continue reading on DALICE’s website: http:// Thanks for running with me! (Lieve Leroy, VVOB) www.dalice.ac.zm (Patrick Kayawe, David Livingstone College of Education) Did you read about graphic organisers in the article about the Lead and Learn Zambia seminar on The VVOB is the Flemish Association for Development Co-operation and Tech- page 4 of this news- nical Assistance, a non-profit organisation. By order of the Flemish and Belgian letter? Are you also government we contribute to the improvement of quality of the education in curious about what developing countries. Our core task is to provide technical assistance in pro- these are? Read the jects and programmes in the South. This way VVOB makes a major contribu- tion to local capacity development, a means to stimulate sustainable develop- learning file on ment and poverty reduction. graphic organisers. (LL) VVOB vzw Zambia, CDC Building, Haile Selasie Avenue, Long Acres, Lusaka, PO Box 31204, 10101 Lusaka, T/F 211 255154, http://www.vvob.be, info@vvob.org.zm