The MCIES Confrence

Am so impressed by the presentation given by the IU graduate students on their session about save the children. I realized that most African countries has similar educational challenges. James Brown said that Lack of trained teacher and educational materials was a big problem facing the education sector in mali. He said there were some similarities and differences that existed between the trained and the un trained teacher. The similarity is that both of them struggled in providing the content to the students due to lack of materials. The difference is that the trained teachers were so creative in their teaching. They knew how to capture the attention of the learners right away during the introduction of the lesson by use of skills like songs that easily drew the attention and interest of the learners. When i take a look on South Sudan, these are some of the challenges facing the education sector too. What are we then going to do as scholars to reduce some of the educational challenges back home? To me i think we need to take action other than just complaining. We should start solving some of these challenge like lack of material but writing our own books in our respective disciplines. It it a hard work and time consuming but don't you think it will make a difference?