EDUCATION POTTERS

 Education Potters I salute you as you work extra hard to manage the digital demands, you are getting it right, individual effort is paramount. Did you complete your TPAD last term, did it get to countersigning, if not, your effort did not get rewarded. Get your tools down, ensure your week ending is sealed with a digital reporting on lesson attendance. The lesson observed with an appraiser's comment will indicate you deliver to the right persons at the recommended time. Make it easy for the Head of Institution and the Deputy Head of Institution, by learning how to navigate through icons on your phones and tablets. This is a time when students get digital literacy with their instructors simultaneously. A country that thirsts for technological content knowledge, will benefit through searches online. Therefore capacity building of teachers should continue until a time when every teacher can embed digital literacy into every lesson. by Agnes Chepchumba

How do we spin at higher orthographic levels? Teachers are basically potters basing on the analogy of the power of a potter to mold clay into the desired shape. A learner's spelling competency depends on graphophonemic awareness. Teachers will, therefore, need to be armed with pedagogical content knowledge of this concept for successful spelling instruction. Graphophonemic awareness refers to the knowledge of graphemes (letters in print) and phonemes (speech sounds in words). Young children succeed in the orthographic mapping of a word once they have identified graphemes and phonemes. Grapheme-phoneme relationships cement a learner's understanding of letters in print. The order of introducing graphemes and phonemes is still a bone of contention among early literacy researchers. Spelling success starts when a child can produce the correct sound upon seeing a letter of the alphabet. Progressively, letter names are made known to the learner just before they can blend the phonemes ...