Sarah is a graduate of Calvin College who spent a year
teaching in the CRC School in Kabala, Sierra Leone. She loved teaching class 3 – and fell in love
with Sierra Leone.
Schools have been closed this entire school session, and the
Ebola crisis has kept her from returning this past school year. So she spent this last fall in limbo. In January, she joined us in Nigeria.
And so I have a fellow educator here for a few months!
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| School visit and chat with principal |
Sarah’s goals include:
* learning as much as she can from the Nigerian school
setting through classroom visits.
* learning more about teacher training.
* learn more about what is happening in literacy in schools
here.
We have been able to
dialogue and reflect on her observations.
She has noted that many challenges teachers face here are ones she also
faces in Sierra Leone. She has been
encouraged by teachers she has met. I
have been encouraged by her presence and have recruited her to share her
experiences in SL during my trainings. We are working at planning some literacy
workshops and professional development material that she can take back to the teachers
she works with as well. She is Jos now –
and will join me again in Abuja in a month or so.
Thank God with me for the opportunity Sarah has to come and
learn from Nigeria’s education system.
Pray for a meaningful time for her and that good connections
are made while here.
Pray for those who have been affected by Ebola across West
Africa. Pray also for the eradication of
the disease.
She is writing on her blog as well: http://sarahkluitenberg.blogspot.com/
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| Discussion group during a training |
