Tōfā soifua SAMCO
What a wonderful, humbling experience it was, ending my time at Samoa College. I met so many students who were so grateful for the opportunity to be educated and they demonstrated it in so many ways in the classroom. I loved having the ability to teach and try things with the certainty that the students would participate and engage fully in each learning experience. At SAMCO, group work was fun. Interesting fact though. They had previously done almost none of this. Their lessons had been spent copying, memorising and being tested relentlessly. Small back story. In my first week here, I was shocked to see the amount of written work in almost every student’s book. I was amazed at the sheer amount of writing splashed across countess pages of carefully kept 1B8s. However, when I had the opportunity to actually LOOK at these notes, I realised that probably 90% of these notes were directly copied notes off the board; of definitions, examples and full short stories and poems copied into boo
