Science Workshop

Dr. Daniel Kamanda [pictured below right on the right] and Dr. Richard Frazier [ pictured below left in the center] led the science Workshop of 30 teachers. The teachers were divided into teams which then worked at different stations performing experiments and making evaluations and reports on the results of those experiments.





“With the help of science we can improve”:
A professional development project
in post-war Sierra Leone

Richard Frazier and Daniel Kamanda

Above: Monday, July 25, Day 1 of the Science Workshop. [L-R] Dr. Richard Frazier, Dr. Dan Kamanda, Nina Frazier, and Catherine Frazier sign in the thirty science teachers. Below are pictures of some of the science teachers in class and at two of the seven different experiment stations.



Above: Science teachers on the field trip to Bumbuna Dam got a chance to view the incredible beauty of Bumbuna Falls. Below: Dr. Richard Frazier [ top row, far right] and Saffa Korma [ top row 4th from left] and some of the science teachers on the Bumbuna Dam field trip.



Science Workshop Participants

Name

School

Amara, Gaskin M.

Northern Polytechnic

Blackie, Joseph D.

Harford Secondary School Moyamba

Conteh, Samuel Mohammed

Yonibana Secondary School

Fayiah, Patrick B.

A.V.S.S.-Mokanji Hills

Fornah, Matthew A.

W.S.M.S.S.

Harding, Fatu

U.M.C. Primary-Makeni

Jalloh, Baiilor

U.M. Secondary School-Makeni

Johnny, Lawrence T.

Centenary U.M. Secondary School-Bo

Joseph, Sylvanus T.

Jaiama Secondary School-Jaiama Nimi Koro-Kono

Kamanda, Claude D.M.

United Methodist Secondary School-Freetown

Kargbo, Moses B.

U.M.C. Primary-Makeni

Kinteh, Saidu Dennis

Alhadi Islamic Primary II-Makeni

Koromah, John D.

Centenary Seconary School-Bo

Lassayo, Sam

Northern Polytechnic-Makeni

Mammah, Alice E.

Howard Memorial School-Shenge

Mammy, Andrew S.A.

Baoma Secondary School-Baoma Station: Bo District

Mansaray, Brima S.

United Methodist Church Secondary School-Makeni

Mansary, Joel F.

St. Joseph Primary School-Makeni

Musa, Momoh K.

B.S.S.S. --Baoma Secondary School

Nichol, D.M.

F.M.S.S.

Nyuma, Fayia Francis

U.M.S.S.G.-Freetown

Sandy, Christian

Jaima Secondary School

Sankoh, Daisy

M.M.C.E.T.-Freetown

Sesay, Abass M.

F.M.S.S.--Moyamba

Sesay, Bernard T.

UMC Secondary School-Makeni

Suluku, Dwight M.

Gbaya TownÑSection-Taiama

Thoronka, Zainab O.

WCSL Maruba-Makeni

Turay, Daniel Hassan

Y.S.S.-Yonibana

Turay, Emmanuel L.

B.D.E.C. Primary School-Makeni

Turay, Ibrahim John

Rural Training and Commercial Institute-Waterloo (near Freetown)

Science Workshop Leaders

Dr. Daniel Kamanda

Received Bachelor of Science Education Degree (with majors in biology and education) from Njala University College, University of Sierra Leone in 1968.

Taught senior biology at Albert Academy and was assistant examiner Ordinary Level Biology of the West African Examinations Council and science teacher supervisor for Peace Corps in-country teacher training in Freetown, Sierra Leone, from 1968 to 1970.

Received Masters Degree in Science Education in 1972, and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction in Secondary Science and Continuing Education in 1974 from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Taught and/or supervised in various science education/teacher education courses for undergraduate and graduate teachers at Njala University College, and served as external examiner for science at the Teachers’ Colleges in Sierra Leone from 1975 to 1991. Served on the curriculum committee that drafted the education curriculum for Africa University in Mutare Zimbabwe; was Director of the Science Curriculum Development Centre and directed the Science Education Programme for Africa – SEPA—(90 and 91). For much of the 1980s was also Country Representative for Canadian Crossroads International in Sierra Leone. Served at Lees McRae College in Banner Elk North Carolina (as Assoc. Professor and as Professor of Education) from 1992 to 1998. Taught secondary science methods, educational psychology, and human growth and development; also designed and taught an undergraduate course in multicultural education.

Currently lives with his wife Dorcas in Cranston, Rhode Island and serves Operation Classroom (a United Methodist Church program for assisting education in Sierra Leone and Liberia), and is current Chairman of the Board of Directors of CITA International, a faith based non-governmental organization formed to develop and maintain health and education facilities in Sierra Leone.


Dr. Richard Frazier

Received AB degree from Washington University, St. Louis, MO in 1972. Concentrations in Biology and English.
 
Taught junior high science in hometown of Charleston, MO from 1973-75.
 
Bicycled through Europe with wife, Catherine, 1975-76.
 
R and C servced as Peace Corps Volunteers in Sierra Leone 1976-78. Richard taught maths and science at Njala Komboya Secondary School. Richard and Catherine also provided training for teachers in primary schools in surrounding villages.
 
Received a Masters Degree in Science Education in 1981 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Began doctoral coursework.
 
Taught junior high science at Dhahran Academy in Saudi Arabia from 1983-88.
 
Taught middle school science at the Singapore American School from 1988-1999.
 
Received a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction and Science Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996.
 
Currently teaching Physics for Teachers and Elementary Science Teaching Strategies to preservice teachers at Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO (1999 to present). Holds rank as Associate Professor of Science Education with tenure in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
 
Has conducted inservice workshops for teachers in science in Cambodia, the Navajo Nation, and Missouri.
 
Active in community, state, and national associations for science teaching and environmental education.
 
Lives with Catherine in Warrensburg, MO. Catherine teaches English Language Learners in the local public schools, is writing her doctoral dissertation in multicultural education / anthropology, serves as an adjunct instructor, and conducts teacher inservices in Missouri and internationally as an ELL consultant. Children, Robert (aka Bobor Kombo) and Nina live respectively in Seattle, WA and Fort Collins, CO. Nina was a participant in the Operation Classroom project in Makeni in July, 2005.