Helping student succeed

Abstract

For years, the Angolan government addresses the overcrowded classrooms, teachers' poor qualifications, lack of proper facilities, and supplies challenges that impact the students´ writing, reading, and mathematics proficiency. Based on that, this emic approach study reflects on the strategy that eight Cabinda public primary schools implemented to promote students' academic success. The finding indicates (1) to address overcrowded classrooms challenges; the schools selected games and quizzes to improve students' proficiency. However, in-classroom, teachers mainly use the blackboard and the textbooks to share information. So, the researcher suggested the usage of grouping strategies, personal or local stories and games; (2) Related to teachers' poor qualifications, the teachers skip the biweekly Zones of Pedagogical Influence meetings for family reasons or already knowing the content. To change that, in a group, teachers can discuss and lesson plan, as well as practice games; (3) Related to proper school facilities and school supplies, the schools keep supplies, such as storybooks and games inside closed boxes. So, to revise the content, the researcher suggested taking aside some time for the students to read the storybooks or play games.

Keywords

• Overload classroom
• Teachers' qualifications
• Lack of school facilities and supplies
• Angola