Dr. Richard Frazier Professional Development for teachers in Sierra Leone

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Dr. Richard Frazier Professional Development for
teachers in Sierra Leone

• 2005-2008

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A decade long war devastated Sierra Leone
A war damaged school
Wartime amputation
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The Children
The Projects Ultimate Goal
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Childrens Lives
Carrying Wood
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Operation classroom 2005Workshop for science
teachers--investigating waterMakeni, sierra
Leone
Testing water from a local stream
The laundry/bath at a local stream
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Solar Powered Electrolysis of Water
Presenting teaching ideas after the inquiry
projects
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Primary Workshop 2006 Exploring Motion 1
Primary Workshop- Exploring Motion 2
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Primary Workshop-2006-- Exploring Motion in a
Childrens Book- Galimoto about a homemade toy
car seen throughout Africa
Boys with their own versions of homemade cars
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2006 workshop on grant-writing Presentations of
proposals
This grant was submitted to the Friends of Sierra
Leone and was funded to enable the school to
start a cassava farm and to acquire apparatus to
produce and market garri- an important foodstuff
This grant was submitted to the Friends of Sierra
Leone and funded to expand HIV/AIDS education-
linking to health, science, communication, and
public service
Proposal involved making soap with local
materials and marketing the product to fund
school activities- Chemistry, Agriculture (palm
oil), and Business
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• Many school aged children are needed by their
  families to work on the farm

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Three Ph.D. graduates in Science Education from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
meeting in Sierra Leone
(l to r) Dr. Richard Frazier science educator at
the University of Central Missouri Dr. Sahr
Gbamanja- Dean Postgraduate Studies, Deputy
Vice-Chancellor, Director of Science Curriculum
Development Centre, Njala University Dr. Daniel
Kamanda- former director of the Science
Curriculum Development Centre at Njala
University (Dr. Kamanda co-directed the science
workshops 2005, 2006, 2007 Dr. Gbamanja
delivered the opening address at the science
workshops 2006, 2007, 2008)
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Richard and Catherine Frazier visiting Njala
Komboya Secondary School where they taught as
Peace Corps Volunteers from 1976-1978, sitting at
the head table during a homecoming ceremony in
2006
Richard and Catherine with elders, officials, and
school staff (some had been their students)
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Workshops on the human bodypresented by junior
secondary teachers for their primary
colleagues--2007
Neuroscience- Monocular vision and performance at
throwing tasks
Anatomy Project
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Heart rate
Pulse
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Anatomy and body architecture
Anatomy and body architecture- initiating the
Study with Junior Secondary Teachers
Additional work in computer literacy conducted at
the Fatima Institute--Makeni
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Two girls at Martin Warren reading the books they
had made during summer school 2008 with the help
of UCM interns from Elementary Science Teaching
Strategies. Their books were sent to Sierra
Leone for the 2008 workshop on science and
literacy and as gifts for the new resource center.
Dr. Catherine Frazier using one of the donated
books from Warrensburg Students and UCM interns
to illustrate a student-made book.
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Missouri books in Sierra Leone serving as
inspiration for the 2008 primary workshop on
integrating science and literacy
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The 2008 bookmaking project integrated science
and literacy and included Communityresearch

• Teachers interviewed a local distiller as part of
  their inquiry into local technologies of
  separation

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Sierra Leone teachers making books 2008
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