First Time Teaching
Karina and I pose with the kids we taught
The Ag volunteers took a bus on Saturday to a “college” with mixed boarding students and locals. I learned colleges are high schools. Beyond that is University. My teaching partner Karina and I were disappointed to see we had pretty young kids (13-15), so our presentation was probably less effective.
We introduced the concept of gender stereotypes by asking what they thought were typical of Americans. “They are beautiful actors and actresses” “They sing good” “They are God fearing” “They love Africa” “They like to give books to Africa”.”They get divorced” In a practice session with Ugandan adults on staff we heard “They are rich” “Time is money”. After we responded to the kids that their assumptions were not necessarily accurate (“I was married for 30 years and did not get divorced, and when I sing people run away (laughter)”, we split up the boy and girls and asked each group what roles were typical of Ugandan Men and then what roles were typical of Ugandan Women. Both boy and girl groups were uniformly positive of the role of each gender (Men were breadwinners, hard-working, god-fearing, patriotic etc. Women did the cooking, raised the children, did the cleaning etc..) In contrast, both genders of Ugandan adults in our training session were uniformly hard on men (they are lazy, they drink too much, they are unfaithful).
What we had hoped was to show the stark disparity in Ugandan society between gender roles, and then, like the American stereotypes, point out that they don’t have to necessarily support that stereotype. Women don’t have to have children early, some men might want to cook and help to clean etc. Another teaching team with older teens had much better luck getting across that concept.
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The kids went out to pose for pictures with us (sorry they are really sharp on my phone), and then Karina (far left) went into Summer Camp Counselor mode and did sing-alongs and played “Red Light, Green Light” a game I hadn’t seen or played since my own childhood. As I said, she is a natural, and they loved it. I want to learn some of those summer camp songs. I enjoyed engaging with the kids on a small group level, always ending with the customary fist bumps all around.
Ag training next.
