A US-based leadership Expert and educationist, Dr. Dorothy Williams, has showered praises on Ghanaian teachers and students for demonstrating an eagerness to adopt innovative teaching and learning techniques, in spite of the challenges they face.
In an interview on her perspectives on the Ghanaian education system, Dr Williams, an accomplished educator with over 25 years of diverse teaching experience across elementary, middle, and high schools, as well as at the collegiate level, noted that teachers in Ghana have always shown an eagerness to adapt to new techniques with an aim of changing the data in the sector.
“Everywhere I have been to, in my many years of training teachers and teaching children in Ghana, I have seen an unique phenomenon of teachers eagerly adapting to new techniques and easily using the strategies shared and or modified to transform the learning and engagement for all students under their tutelage,” she noted.
Dr. Williams, who currently, serves as a special education teacher in a high school and an Adjunct Professor at AIU, has collaborated with various universities and colleges as an adjunct professor, teaching multiple business courses.
As the founder of the Center4 TransAtlantic Leadership and Progressive Studies Foundation since 2019, a registered non-profit organization (501c3 and NGO), Dr. Williams leads initiatives to recruit teachers who conduct professional development workshops in Ghana, West Africa.
She has organized workshops that focus on sharing evidence-based strategies with educators and administrators, aiming to enhance educational practices and optimal outcomes.
“Ghanaian teachers and students get surprised when I tell them of how they match up with their counterparts in the West. With the facilities available to them, they have proven to have great potentials and a determination to learn and change systems,” she observed, insisting that such qualities are rare.
With more than a decade of experience as a Dissertation Chairperson at several universities, she has guided numerous students through their academic journeys. Dr. Williams has also had the privilege of serving as a visiting professor in the Master of Business Department at North Christian University in Haiti, where she contributed to curriculum development and provided educational professional development.
She disclosed plans of her organization to continue to contribute to the development of education in Ghana, through training and distribution of teaching and learning materials to schools in dire need.