Women in Academia
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Maud Adom

Maud Adom is a 58year old Christian woman who teaches Integrated Science at Salem Secondary School located at Kuku Hill a suburb of Osu in Accra. She is a Ga who has been in the teaching service since 1975.

She completed her two year post secondary education in 1970 and served as the assistant women’s prefect for the 1969-70 academic year. She later attended the Advance Teacher Training College now University of Education from 1972-1975 and was the Pra Hall Secretary in 1974-1975 academic year. Madam Maud has been very instrumental in church activities; she was a deaconess, Sunday school teacher and local leader of the Sunday school, local women’s leader. From 2000-2002 she was on the executive board of the youth ministry and the women’s movement secretary from 2001-2002.At Love Community Church she has been a discipleship class teacher since 2002.She is now on the disciplinary committee of the Salem Secondary School.

Some of the challenges in her work she talked about include the fact that some students in the school are of poor academic standard so she has to teach over and over again before they get a point. This situation makes her have little satisfaction in teaching. To worsen matters only a small percentage of students are ready to learn and some are also disrespectful so what to have their own way. Despite the above, some students do absent themselves from school for a long time which at times regress lessons.

Madam Maud suggested that some sort of screening should be done in the school so as the school absorbs those students who are academically sound. Parents she said should supervise their wards homework and assignments while encouraging them to be behind their books. The fees of students must be paid promptly by parents to avoid absenteeism in school.

She personally has the love for teaching thus teach even in the church. According to her, the few students who do well academically make her go on in her teaching career.

Because she has the love for teaching it is her desire to continue with her secular teaching and spread the good news. She wants Ghanaian women to be up and doing in order to send their children to school to have a better future if possible than them. To her what the men are doing at home is not enough so the women should support them.