For the past six years, Lawerh Felix Narh has been teaching STEM subjects. He has also been a member of the Municipal Science Association for the past three years. His students currently number sixty, and he teaches at Buranamoa M.A. JHS. Though he is not a registered member of GAST, he attends their meetings.
Larweh opted to train as a STEM educator in training college because of his interest in science. Over the next five years, he plans to improve himself so that he can teach STEM in a higher institution after furthering his studies.
His journey to becoming a STEM educator began after senior high school. After taking a look at the job market in Ghana and considering his options at the time, he decided to become a teacher and has not regretted the decision.
He believes that STEM is a very important aspect of world development, and that STEM education can raise a generation of thinkers and problem solvers. Larweh is always inspired to give his best when students ask questions and throw challenges at him during, and sometimes even after classes. This motivates him to find more efficient and interesting ways of teaching and he does this by doing extensive research. In addition, he always attends the Municipal Science Association meetings to learn what is new in STEM.
It was through his constant networking that Larweh heard about the JUNEOS Challenge. First hearing about it from the headmaster of his school in conversation, he later heard about it from his district science coordinator and again from the Central Regional GAST president. These persistent reminders of the Challenge piqued his interest and he discussed it with his headmaster, who readily agreed that the school should participate. With that, Larweh started to get his students ready. This was not difficult because they already loved the experiments and practical demonstrations that took place during STEM classes. While they prepared for the challenge, Larweh enjoyed seeing his students think independently and grow in confidence.
As an educator, the JUNEOS Challenge has exposed Larweh to more ways of including practical demonstrations into his teaching to keep the interest of his students from the beginning to the end of each class session.
Mr. Narh would love to be a part of another JUNEOS Challenge because of the impact it has on both educators and students. For him, the initiative can improve if more schools joined. He also believes the challenge is a great way to expose students to the opportunities available in the science field.
He expects that his students will do well in the challenge when results come out, and hopes that this is not the last of the JUNEOS Challenge.
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Article by Elizabeth Johnson.
Elizabeth Johnson works as a researcher and project manager with Dr Monk and volunteers the rest of her time with the Writers Project of Ghana where she takes up various roles such as radio show production, social media management and administrator for their annual literary festival. She is a published writer who writes both fiction and non fiction and has won awards for her work.
Congratulations. Mr Lawerh..go higher
He has always been an innovative student back in our days as students in the college of education. Felix as we use to call him really proved he will be great in someday to come. May you achieve higher.
His hardwork is worth the recognition…thumbs up Mr Narh, more grease to your elbow
Lawer Narh Tettey, all the best in your endeavors