Esther Daka
Esther Daka is a teacher with six years of experience helping students build reading and writing skills. She has worked online and through private tutoring both, running one-on-one lessons that never stuck to a single template, shaped instead around whatever a particular student needed.
Her responsibilities include reading, writing, and ELA tutoring at Brighterly.
Education and Professional Skills
Esther earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the University of Zambia in 2020.
Then she holds a Diploma in Early Childhood Development and Education and a 120-hour TEFL certificate. These credentials cover classroom management and language instruction for a range of age groups.
Esther Daka’s Experience Before Brighterly
Online lessons on one side, private tutoring on the other. Before Brighterly, Esther worked both, running one-on-one sessions tailored to each student’s needs. Assessments, lesson notes, clear goal-setting — progress got tracked through all of it, then handed straight back to students as feedback while they worked through each unit.
Parents stayed involved too, and not just at the finish line. Learning objectives got reviewed together, progress got tracked, areas needing more attention got flagged early. Families ended up with an ongoing picture of how their child was doing, rather than one update dropped at the end of a term.
“I turn reading challenges into ’I can do this’ moments for every learner.”
I believe every child can succeed when learning feels meaningful, engaging, and supported. My role is to spark curiosity, build confidence, and turn challenges into “I can do this” moments because when students believe in themselves, learning naturally follows.
Current Activities and Approach to Students
Confident readers. Independent ones. Readers who genuinely enjoy books — that’s what Esther works toward at Brighterly. Fiction, non-fiction, a whole range of texts, each one tied back to something from a student’s own life. Familiar ground beats abstract ground, every time.
“When students believe in themselves, learning naturally follows.”
Curiosity drives the lessons. Critical thinking too.
Students weigh in on characters, predict outcomes, question what a story is really saying — and comprehension work, built around plot, characters, themes, and vocabulary, leaves plenty of room for creative responses in each student’s own words.
Interactive activities matter just as much as the texts themselves. A student choosing to keep reading on their own, without being asked? Esther counts that as a bigger win than any single correct answer.
Writing rounds things out — essays, short stories, poems, ideas organized before they ever hit the page. Grammar, vocabulary, sentence construction: all of it develops right alongside the writing itself, reading and writing growing together instead of in separate lanes.
Homework support and targeted practice tie back to specific school requirements, and through all of it, one goal stays fixed: students who read well, write clearly, and feel capable doing both.
