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Management Education: an approach to improved English language teaching
taught EFL/ESL for over twenty years. She is now working in primary education development in Balochistan, Pakistan. She has worked in Turkey, Sierra Leone, Guinea, China, Jordan, Cameroon, Rwanda, France, and The Gambia. She has a BEd, an MA in Applied Linguistics and ELT, and an MBA. Her research interests include second and foreign language teaching methodology, teacher education, and the management of learning.
Head of the Language Arts Unit at the National Curriculum Development Centre, Freetown, Sierra Leone. She has a BA from the University of Sierra Leone and an MA in Curriculum Development from the University of Sussex. She is co-author of the Longman textbook, Sierra Leone Junior Secondary English.
This article describes an in-service teaching initiative in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The majority of teachers in Sierra Leone are untrained, unqualified, and short-term. The focus of in-service training at the National Curriculum Development Centre changed from methodology workshops for teachers to management seminars for their heads of departments. The seminars were aimed at equipping heads of department with the ability to manage themselves and their departments responsibly and effectively, and at giving them guidelines on how to manage in-school training for their staff.