SPORTS AS A TOOL OF EDUCATING CHILDREN

SPORTS HELP IN LEARNING

One of the objectives of our new curriculum is empowering learners in all sides of life and identifying their talents. Sports is also part of one of Life orientation's learning outcomes. By participating in sports learners can also builid on their health.

Using sports such as indegenous games also helps in teaching our learners about their culture.Most of the cultural games such as muravharavha, ndode and mufuvha helps learners to enrich their knowledge in mathematics and creativity. Sports made learners busy that they do not spend time lingering arround doing nothing.



Sport can also be used in crime prevention because when learners are participating more on sport they are always busy. Most of the crime prevention teams use sport as the tool of fighting against drug abuse amoungst students. Sports events are also used during campaigns against HIV and AIDS.



Sport are very important and they have to be taken into consideration at schools,who knows we might spot olympic medalists in our schools.

MOTIVATION IS ANOTHER WAY TO ENCOURAGE LEARNERS

Most of our students do not underperform because they are not capable, it is because of the stress and lack of motivation. Therefore I argue teachers and parents to give motivation ad full support to their children.

Motivating learners helps them to perform better in the class, increase self confidence and higher self esteem. Motivation can also serve as a relieve to psychological breakdown. Motivating learners helps as a source of strength and perseverance. Motivation boost the morale of learners.

Motivation also helps learners as an armunation to conquer fear. Most of the schools that invite motivational speakers at their school tend to perform better. Learners has to be exposed to their rolemodels so that they can learn from them and be motivated to achieve more. Teachers also can be motivators by encouraging learners to achieve more. Teachers has to always give positive comments about learner's partipation at the same time showing them that they still have a room to improve.

Parents also play a role in motivating learners, negative comments always kills the sprit of learners,so parents has to encourage their children and give them support even when they are struggling. Giving children positive comments brought hope and encourages them to do better.

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR TEACHERS?

It was monday morning and I was reading the newspaper the headline read as "A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL RAPES A LEARNER". I was very ashamed and betrayed by that bad behavior by my fellow comrade that I even ask myself if the news repoter was just making it up.

This has become a very bad disease in most of our teachers, they no longer see their learners as their children. One wonders wether they chose the teaching carrer because of hunger or the passion of building the strong educated future children. As a teacher and a rolemodel one ask questions on what does young children learn from a person of such behaviour.

Most of the teenagers become pregnant because of their teachers and they keep quite because of fear. Some children are promised to be given money and free marks just because they slept with the teacher. This behaviour is destroying the good image of teachers.

The question is as a teacher, a public figure what do you feel when you start to approach young children. Don't you feel ashemed of yourself? Don't you care about the child's future? Most of the learners who has gone through the abuse lose focus in school work.

Even female teachers are involved in this acts that leave them naked, one of the female teachers was found busy seducing and kissing a student at school. As teachers we took the outh that we will treat students as our children but why now?

This disease is taking us down teachers is about we say enough is enough.

CORPRAL PUNISHMENT IN OUR SCHOOLS

One of the major problems facing schools today is the ill-discipline in our learners, the problem has caused a lot of tensions between teachers and students. Some state that teachers has no power as the government has passed the law that corpral punishment is illegal in our schools. But the question is, is corpral punishment the effective way of keeping discipline in the class?

Taking into consideration that schools teach children civilization I find it not necessary to whip children like donkeys. Using corporal punishment is like telling them that the only way to solve problems is by being violent. Most of the students become pain-resistant that they no longer feel anything no matter how many times you beat them. They see beating as a little game they play with their teachers.

According to the researches corpral punishment gives pain in the flesh not the inner person. It does not make any difference. The only thing that can maintain discipline is by talking to them, there no powerfull disciplinarian as the mouth. The pain can go away but words stay forever in the mind.

As professionals whipping children look as uncivilized and having problems with problem solving and maintaining discipline.

SHORTAGE OF MATHS AND SCIENCE TEACHERS

The South African teaching industry has a huge problem regarding the shortage of teachers, mostly Science and Maths teachers. The problem is not new in the industry, it started a long time ago during Bantu education(apartheid era), Maths and Science are one of the most important subjects in our school curriculum because they are foundation of engineers,doctors and financial fields of which there is a shortage in South Africa.

The root of the problem was during the implementing of Bantu education. Most of the primary school teachers were given jobs to teach Maths and Science in the secondary level without exprience. Most of the students failed because teachers were failing to reach the maximum expectation and they relied mostly in text books. As a result most of the learners opted to do other subjects such as History.

The problem is felt now as we are living in the world of science and technology, South Africa is facing a huge shortage of manpower in the fields of technology and science.It is clearly possible that it because of the shortage of teachers in our schools.

However, a little of the teachers we have leave the industry to join private companies, which means the problem is here to stay unless we have good options to prevent it. Some of those teachers end up holding big posts in the department,and the department fails to find best replacements.

The government tried to give bursaries to students who want to do teaching in Maths and Science,but the question is how many years will those students stay in the industry without thinking to quit because of poor wages.

The problem is affecting our whole development as the country so is about time the government redress its system in teachers wages and rights.

PROBLEMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

As from 1994 when South Africa obtain its democratic government many changes were implemented. Even our education system faced some major changes including higher education in form of colleges and universities. The government tried to work on problems in universities by combaning them, they stopped the issue of Afrikaans only universities,but it seems as the problems are far from the end.

Many incidence of racism are reported in our country,with the recent one in University of Free State. The question is what kind of a human being urinate in other peoples food. Aren't Africans people?By Africans I mean blacks I just can not find it to use the word black,because we have been insluted enough by the word,beside that I do not see human beings Black or White people has to opt for other colours.

Every edition of "the observer" u.j newspaper there always incidence of racism which brought questions on what is happening in our universities and democracy. The problem is that youth are the one involved which brought a question on what does the future hold for us as South Africans.

Another problem is that universities are still seen as the privilage for the wealthy South Africans. Only minority of the poor people made it to the universities, which brought a question on "education for all" which government motto on bringing education to all South Africans.

EDUCATION,A SPEAR OF THE NATION!

There was a time when a man was judged according to his power. Men's power in the battle earn them respect, wealth and land. During those times being violent was not seen as being uncivilized and violeting other people's rights but as the way of making a living.



Today things have changed, a man is judged by his educational background, a man has to acquire education and to have status in their lives, and live successfully. Education is the key to every door of success now. Without it one is like an empty vessel which makes a lot of noise than full vessels.



Education helps one to survive in this world. Education give all tools of survival such responsibilitty,confidence and discipline. Education also teach people with respect. Education stimulate peoples mind and build their creativity.



A nation that is not educated suffer a lot from violance, crimes and wars as the learders are shorting necessary skills needed to make wise discions. Education is the only thing that brought civilization and peace. Educated people use their mouth to solve problem not weapons.

They say in Venda a pen is better than a knobkrie,which means that education is far better than fighting. Proffessionals know how to solve their problems without using bombs and guns. Education promotes peace and can be the only thing to combat crime and other social problems in South Africa.



Education helps one to find his/her own ablity. Education lay the foundation to the successful future. A nation without education is ill..