Meet GH4STEM 100 Top Teacher: OSFINE ALFRED SABOGU, Wa #GH4STEM

Osfine Alfred Sabogu always dreamed of using his knowledge and creativity to make the world a  better place. Like his childhood hero, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, who rose from humble beginnings to become the first president of Ghana, a young Osfine also hoped to become a lawyer when he grew up. Things did not quite go that way for him, though. After completing Senior High School, he taught at a private school. His experience there made him realize that the best way to change the world was by teaching the future generation. Thus he enrolled at the University of Education, Winneba and became a teacher. He now teaches thirty-five students and has been teaching for the past six years.

Osfine’s objective is to make STEM lessons practical for his students and this inspires him to use various resources including the internet and books to enhance his knowledge. What he likes best about teaching STEM is the availability of Teaching and Learning Materials and the innovative use of local materials. He desires to impart knowledge to his students so that they help make the world a better place.

He narrates his most positive experience as an educator: “There was one time I asked my students to do some work and I gave them the apparatus needed, but one of the items was missing. One of the students without asking me went outside the classroom and carved out the missing item and replaced it.” The ingenuity of these students made him realize that as an educator he could also learn a lot from his students.

Osfine had been following the JUNEOS Challenge for a while on TV and on social media, and so he contacted the JUNEOS team to participate. He and his students selected an experiment  and practiced it. Their experiment was inspired by the inability of students to study when there was a power crisis. They used a magnet and copper coil to generate electricity and light. 

Osfine has benefited immensely from his participation in the JUNEOS Challenge. He has learnt the value of innovation and improvisation. He has also been inspired to help his students take their studies seriously and to understand that what they are learning is not solely for examinations but also for their own future. 

Osfine hopes that JUNEOS achieves full growth and organizes training sessions for educators so that they can keep abreast with new happenings in the world of science. 

Osfine hopes to study aerospace engineering and physics in the future. 

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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