Dear Friends, This is what I do !

I am a teacher. I consider myself to be born a teacher despite the fact I have used six years of my life pursing corporate career.
Why? My excuse is that teaching cannot pay my bills

However on return from study and sabbatical intertwined with a mix of fortune and design, I have decided to indulge my passion and expertise.
The final push came when I needed a lawyer for a civil case. He asked what I do for a living and I said I was a teacher’s teacher. He probed further then I explained what I meant.
I train teachers how to teach children to read and write effectively. But that is not a hard job on its own. Yes but we have many primary and secondary school students around us who do not know how to read and write. The said lawyer made his child repeat JSS one because the child could not spell words like dysentery, diarrhoea or diarrhea etc. (He has expertise which I needed and I have one which he needed but I had kept mine restricted to a niche of people thinking the people that needed my skill and expertise were in the minority). I took time testing pupils from primary one to SS3 and I recorded a failure rate of over 90%. Well if you think your child is better schooled then put him/her through the test of those tricky words. Well your conclusion might be that you yourself struggle with those words but the good and bad news is that the teaching method in your days is absolutely obsolete and theirs is modern that enables pupil to learn at tender age. The present technique of teaching reading and writing enables a child to be able to read and write those words in primary one. Did I make a mistake? Hell no. I mean primary one (at the age of 6/7). If your child or ward cannot spell or read those words in primary one then the teacher and school are doing a terrible job. I have not been taught is not tenable because they are not expected to learn those words by rote. That is where I come in and that is what I do. I train teachers to teach reading and writing and I train children to read and write effectively. I teach the basic rudiments of word formation which becomes a reflex in children. I also teach teachers the methodology. I have a six years old in primary one that can attempt writing and reading any word; irrespective of how tricky or complicated it is. Yeah she can’t be perfect like an adult but at the end of primary one, she would compete favourably with a sound adult. Kids do not need to be exceptionally brilliant to effectively read and write, they only need to be properly taught.
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Isaac Orimogunje ©