Dr. Michele Iiams is her name and lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota USA. Her city is only 120 km from the Canadian border.
She has worked in the Mathematics Department at the University of North Dakota for about 20 years. Her area of specialty is Mathematics Education. She teaches math courses up through calculus and courses for students preparing to be math teachers. She recently became the director of new Math Active Learning lab.

She enjoys working with students and teachers in developing a conceptual understanding of math. She has presented numerous workshops for teachers at the state and national level. This will be her second trip to Africa. Two years ago she travelled in Rwanda and Kenya to visit friends.
Her family consists of her husband, Joel and their children Rachel (age 23), her husband Justice (age 23), and Jacob (age 20). Her parents, Leigh and Karen, just recently moved from Iowa to North Dakota.

Dr. IIAMS MICHELE AND HER FAMILY Jacob, Dr. Michele and her daughter Rachel on her wedding day.

A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT DR. ANNE WALKER

Dr. Anne Walker has been a professor at the University of North Dakota for the past 18 years. She specialized in Teaching English as a Second Language and Literacy Education. Three years ago she became the Associate Dean of the College of Education and Human Development so she is now in charge of all teacher education

Programs at the University.

One of her favorite things to do is international teacher training. She travels approximately twice a year to different countries and work with teachers to improve their English education programs. Her last trip was in May, 2017 to Saudi Arabia where she visited rural schools and gave a two-day workshop for rural English teachers. She has conducted series of training for teachers in rural schools in Ethiopia and in international schools in Korea, Russia, China and Chile. She also has had many international students coming to the University of North Dakota to study, and even a few from Ghana!
She loves to travel, meet new people and learn different things and languages. these are some of the reasons why she is so excited to be coming to Moringa Community School.

She began her career in English teaching as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Marshall Islands, which is in the Pacific Ocean. After that she went back to school to get her Masters degree in Teaching English as a Second Language and taught ESL to middle school students and to adults in the United States. She loves to teach, she is creative and help students Erik is the second boy learn to enjoy learning a new language.
She has three wonderful children, ages 17, 15 and 13. Ethan is the oldest boy and loves computers and reading. Erik is the second oldest boy and also loves computers. Emily is the youngest daughter and she loves dance and art. Her husband, Jim, worked for many years as an electrical engineer and is now semi-retired. They all love to travel and spend time outdoors.

When she is not working she like spending time with her family, also love to cook, garden, and play tennis.

THE VOLUNTERY TEACHING SERVICE FROM Dr. Michelle Liams and Dr. Anne Walker AT MORINGA COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF TRADE.

Dr. Michelle Liams and Dr. Anne Walker are professors of North Dakota University. Dr. Liams is a Mathematics professor and Dr. Walker an English professor.

These two individuals are volunteers who came to Moringa Community School of Trade (MCSOT) in the second week of May, 2018 to train the Mathematics and English teachers new and best methods of teaching their disciplines. In Ghana, English is our official language but not our first language so it’s difficult for some students at certain educational levels like ours to express themselves vividly in English.

That wasn’t a problem at all because Dr. Walker knew at first-hand what hurdle she was to jump before leaving MCSOT since she has been volunteering in Africa. She taught the students how to pronounce words, how to use the dictionary to find meaning to words they pronounce and how to form sentences. As she taught the students, the English teacher was also learning her methods of teaching the English language in that same simple but comprehensive way.

Mathematics is a subject that causes fear and panic in most students. Most students fail maths because just at the

Thought of it they are frightened. Can it be the basic fundamentals of the discipline that wasn’t tackled well and so caused a loss of interest or it’s the laziness of students? Whatever the cause, the Mathematics professor Michelle Liams didn’t care as she was keen to making every student understand from the scratch. Her teaching methods were so superb as the students grasped with ease all topics she taught. She taught how to calculate for Area of a figure using a geometric board and it was so easy to understand. Quadratic graph was taught in a simple way by asking students to perform an activity of playing a volley ball. She then used the activity to teach the quadratic graph. In the mathematics teacher’s own words, he said, “This is mathematics made simple”. He was so wowed by the in depth knowledge Dr. Liams displayed while volunteering at MCSOT