Hi, my name is Asanda Sigigaba. I was doing grade 12 at LEAP this year and I want to become a teacher. My personal journey experiences has led me to this career so that is why I feel its worth to be shared with other young people. The reason why I want to be a teacher is because I want to work with young people simply because I enjoy working with them and I know I have a lot to give and learn from them. I would also like to share my personal experiences as a young girl growing up in rural areas and township.  I think becoming a teacher will help me to learn more about myself and other people and I believe that’s how one personally grows. My aim as a teacher is to teach students more about life than just academics because I really believe that it’s important to know it not saying academics are less important or anything. I honestly think that this country needs more young people like me to become teachers who can try to understand students, help and really care for them.

I’m Zintle, a student from LEAP. I just finished grade 12 this year. I was given a task on your website, the website is effective in a way that it shows people like me who want to do teaching a clear view of what needs to be done. I like the way you combined the two flags. I think Teach with Africa will bring a huge change to the world.

My aim to become a teacher is to share the knowledge I have with other children from different commuties and by doing so, I will be sharing with the world. I like the fact that I will be doing it in my own school. I never thought of becoming a teacher but when I heard that there’s a great need of good teachers in S.A. I thought I should consider doing it. Some of my teachers were a great motivation in my decision making. Making this decision took quite a while. The other thing that I want to do is share the ideas I have on finding new ways of teaching and making teaching a more interesting and succesful career.

Hope we stay in contact.

I would firstly like to introduce myself. My name is Zonke. I’m a grade 12 student at LEAP who is intending on studying teaching next year. Today Mr. Gilmour introduced me to your project and I had the chance to look at your website. I must say that it has made me excited about my choice of career and has really made me realise how much change I will be contributing to my country education wise.

At first I didn’t want to be a teacher as I thought it was not the kind of job for me due to the strikes that were happening and the kind of teachers that are in the townships. It was a process of looking at myself and looking at what I really want to achieve in terms of personal achievements and careers. I realised that the problem with South African education, can change through me taking a step. I would have an impact in changing the methodology of teaching and improve the marks of black students especially in the township schools. As I will be starting my first year of teaching next year, I will also coach the debating society that I was in here at LEAP. In the future I would like to open my own school where I will specialise in debating and public speaking for students in the townships.

I would really like to get more involved in your project and keep the connection going between us please reply so as to keep the connection going.

zonke mpotulo (grade 12 student)