Literature Symposium: NASH partners education panorama

THE response is excellent. The facilitators are raring to go. The deed is about to be done.

November 30, 2018, all roads lead to The Turner Memorial Library-American Corner in Mutare for teachers of Literature in English and Communication in Mutare, Chimanimani and Chipinge districts. Relevant officials in both Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education and the National Association of Secondary heads (NASH)-Mutare put heads together to come up with the idea of a one-day Literature-in-English Indaba to troubleshoot challenges to do with pass rate and find durable solutions.

Mutare district, which is the hosting the event, says the school heads in respective secondary schools and high schools have shown extraordinary interest in the scheduled symposium and look forward to a very successful convention.

Mtisi Morris and Moses Mukoyi, the symposium chief facilitators representing the education panorama, anxiously look forward to a new idea that will be ongoing.

“We will continue to be self-motivated, concerned and interested until the pass rate has improved. We cannot continue to fold our arms, look aside and hope the pass rate will change without meaningful and comprehensive intervention,” said Mr Mukoyi.

“We have several recommendations to make at the symposium to see this idea hatch into a serious and continuous intervention,” said the St Faith’s school head. We come to the symposium to share wisdom, challenges and difficulties as we facilitate . . . but also to learn. I am confident though that our many years of experience in this area of teaching and learning will not go to waste,” said Mr Mukoyi.

“After the symposium, no one will go back the same. Each one of us will be wiser, smarter and proud to be a small part of this big idea.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, they say. There must come a time in this teaching-learning life that together we can proudly brag about saying we were part of that change. That time is now.”

The symposium will run under the theme: The power of Literature in shaping real lives.