Can you make out “A Beacon of Hope and Inspiration in Education and Life” when you come across one? Well, Madam Ellen Nkwantabisa is one of such real gems impacting and transforming lives.
There is a saying that experience is the best teacher. Madam Ellen Nkwantabisa is a well-educated and experienced teacher in the teaching field. She is a teacher at the Community 5/3 Basic School in Tema. Madam Ellen has improved her students’ lives in many ways.
Being a parent, teacher, and philanthropist is not easy, but what she always thinks about is her students’ hospitality.
Madam Ellen, being a teacher and a counsellor in the teaching service, has decided to always seek the well-being of her students by organizing counseling sessions every Friday to advise the students who have problems and are always thinking about how to come through them.
She also supports students who are academically weak to improve in her spare time. Sometimes on Saturdays, she moves from house to house to visit parents and students to discuss the academic challenges of the learners in class and find possible solutions with the parents.
Dr. Kofi Annan once said, “A good teacher can make you, but a bad teacher can break you”.
Madam Ellen has impacted many lives, her students, and her community in so many ways and fields that I cannot cover them all in this piece of writing. In fact, I cannot complete this post if I decide to keep throwing more light on the work of this amazing educator.
Madam Ellen is a social studies teacher, so everything social about her students is very important to her. My own performance in social studies was very poor, and I did not like the subject until she began to inspire me.
I always felt lazy to learn the subject, but one day madam came to my aid and asked me why my performance in social studies was very poor.
I stated my answers, and after that, she said that when it was break time, I should visit her in the staff common room.
When I went to the staff common room to meet her, she asked which topics in social studies I didn’t understand. I started them. She went through it one by one to my fullest understanding, and now, God being so good, I can say I am one of the best Social Studies students in Tema West and Ghana today.
Madam has saved my life and that of my fellow students through the motherly advice she offers at any given opportunity.
One thing I will always remember about Madam Ellen is when we were about to write an exam and our Religious and Moral education teacher fell sick, and we had nobody to teach us that subject.
Madam came to our aid and helped us by teaching us the subject. God being so good, all the topics she went through with us came into the examination, and I passed the exam.
I always call Madam Ellen my mother, not only me, because she has made me a man of my own and a good leader in the leadership role of the President of the Civic Education Club organized by the National Commission for Civic Education.
Today, due to her sacrifices, which have refined me, I am able to educate many students and Ghanaians about their rights and responsibilities.
Madam Ellen, you are a rare star and a special teacher who is impacting our future through your daily sacrifices.
May God bless your efforts.
Submitted by:
Master Yeboah Gerrard Afari
Tema.
We at Ghana Education News celebrate Madam Ellen Nkwantabisa with this post shared with us by Master Yeboah Gerrard Afari.
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