While I will be the first to say testing is not always the best method of determining how someone is doing in school, I also recognize that it is difficult to change a culture that only understands testing. Testing is a time consuming process that takes up a half a week of classroom time every…
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Six years and End of Year Testing
Six years really does not seem like a long time. When I first planned to come to Africa with my first mission group I intended to spend six years there. I thought that would give enough time to get the ministry back up and running and have everybody working on the same page. We know…
February Test Results
With everything that has been going on here in Tanzania, I have gotten behind in some of my stories to tell here on the blog. While Doug and Frank were visiting, we had our end of February tests for the students which allowed them to help us present the top students with their prizes. The…
End of Year Tests, Alternative Christmas Gifts
Last week, I talked about the Christmas gifts as a single blog because I felt it deserved it’s on spotlight. Today I want to finish up our school year and the final testing.When I went around talking during my trip home in June, I told folks we had a goal of increasing the academic performance…
Test Prep, Sermons, School Choir and pictures
The Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School choir This week was once again a full week. I started the week by typing in the tests the teacher’s prepared for the end of the school year. To say I was horrified at some of the questions is an understatement. First understand school is a lot different…
Steve and Barnabas 