My Responsibilities

Once we get to Liberia we will be spending one week in Ganta, and one week in Monrovia. In the mornings of those two weeks I will be team-teaching with another member of our team named Miranda. Six teachers will be split into three rooms with anywhere from 30 - 50 Liberians in each room. The Liberian teachers we will be working with want to increase their effectiveness in the classroom, and that is what we will be there to help them with. We will teach lesson planning skills, classroom management, and other things needed to be effective as a teacher. Each day we will teach three lessons back to back.

In the afternoon, while the other teachers are working with the Liberian teachers on practicing the skills we went over in the morning, I will head to a local seminary to do a four day workshop. From 1:30 - 4:00 each day I will be leading sessions based on Rick Warren's 12 Ways to Study the Bible. The preparation I have done to get ready for this ten hour workshop has been intense but also very enriching. Just earlier tonight I finished my lessons both for the teacher training and the seminary workshop, and now I am ready to go. For some of the evenings we have programs with the children that should be great. I will be running a soccer game which the children there evidently love to play. I can't wait.

I have other responsibilities on the weekends that I will tell about as the days unfold.