Mr. Henneh Kofi Johnson comes from Kwasi Buokroma in the Brong-Ahafo region. He attended Jasikan College of Education and continued his education by taking a course in Management Studies at the Institute of Chartered Management (ICM). He has been teaching for the past 11 years and currently his students number about seventy-eight.
As a young boy, Henneh Kofi Johnson had various career choices. At a point, he wanted to become a pharmacist. One time, when a teacher asked him to consider law enforcement, he decided he wanted to become a police officer. After getting his degree in Education he wanted to become a manager so he furthered his education with Management Studies. However he finally took to teaching. It turns out to have been the right fit. Mr. Henneh Kofi Johnson is currently the headmaster of his school.
Henneh has always loved science, and he was encouraged by his colleague to study science. “I gave it a try and enjoyed it,” he says. He keeps abreast on his STEM knowledge by attending workshops, one of the most recent being the BSTEM workshop held in Kumasi.
Mr. Johnson explains that being an effective STEM educator means that he must make the learner feel involved in the learning process while making the teaching interesting and practical. This allows students to understand what is being taught.
Henneh also believes that STEM education provides future employment opportunities for students and also encourages entrepreneurship. “They will be able to create their own jobs even if they don’t get the chance to further their education,” he says.
He recounts his most inspiring experience as an educator as when two of his students approached him after a lesson. They wanted to create a telescope. Intrigued, he provided them with the required lenses and other materials and challenged them to build it. And truly, they did! He was impressed. He explains that incidents like this where students demonstrate what they’ve learnt are the high points of his work as an educator.
For their experiment in the JUNEOS Challenge, he and his students worked on a device that could monitor the level of water in a polytank.
Mr Henneh Kofi Johnson believes that he has benefited immensely from the JUNEOS Challenge. He has grown as a teacher and his students have also become eager to learn science and are serious with their studies. The greatest lesson he has learnt as an educator is that “practice, persistent learning and training makes perfect.”
For leisure, Henneh enjoys watching the TV programme Newsfile on Saturday mornings. Though he finds him controversial, his favorite celebrity is lawyer Maurice Ampaw.
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Article by Kofi Konadu Berko.
Kofi Konadu Berko is passionate about education and youth development. He holds a B.A in Adult Education and Human Resource Studies from the University Of Ghana. His works have been published in the historic Afroyoung Adult anthology titled Waterbirds On the Lakeshore, Adabraka: Stories From the Center Of the World, Tampered Press and the Kalahari Review. He blogs at obolokofi.wordpress.com
Waaoooo, so great and inspiring
“Everyone wants success, but it only follows those who make a true approach to get it. You know the hard work and dedication has a destination which is success. Best of luck for your future and congratulation, bro for your achievements. Keep going.”
Congratulations to you on your achievement, Coffie. With such enthusiasm and urge for forging ahead professionally and with divine protection and guidance, the sky can only be your limit. More grease to your elbows.