A Liberian trainer at the moment educating physics on the Tappeh Memorial Excessive Faculty in Nimba County has received the African Union Continental ‘Greatest Instructor Award’ for 2025, having been nominated for the competitors by the Schooling Ministry this yr to signify Liberia.
Mr. Allen A. Thomas, who earned a Bachelor of Arts diploma in Schooling from the ABC College in Nimba County, was nominated with a feminine colleague for the competitors, as that is the primary time Liberia is taking part because the mental competitors was established in 2019.
Mr. Thomas emerged because the winner amongst ten of Africa’s greatest lecturers, with two coming from every area, as each African nation was represented from the preliminary stage of the competitors, with two lecturers.
Previous to his newest achievement on the African Continent, Mr. Thomas, who has devoted his complete profession to educating with over ten years’ expertise within the classroom, was acknowledged in 2023 by the Ministry of Schooling as ‘Liberia’s Nationwide Greatest Instructor’, and in 2024, took Liberia to the worldwide stage as a Mandela Washington Fellow.
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The formal ceremony to current his award by the African Union is anticipated to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this yr.
In appreciation of the pleasure he has simply dropped at the nation, the Ministry of Schooling (MOE) held an honoring and recognition program for him over the weekend at its edifice within the EJS Ministerial Complicated in Congo City, outdoors Monrovia.
Talking on the event, Schooling Minister Dr. Jarso Maley Jallah revealed that all of it started in Could 2015 when she and her delegation attended the Africa Federation for Educating Regulatory Authorities (AFTRA) convention in Lubango, Angola. “It was at this important gathering that we made a passionate and strategic advocacy for Liberia’s participation within the African Union’s Continental Greatest Instructor Award,” Dr. Jallah defined.
She instructed a gathering of schooling stakeholders, which included representatives from AU, UNESCO, the Native Schooling Group (LEG), and the Nationwide Lecturers Affiliation of Liberia (NTAL), that her plea had been heard and revered, leading to a Liberian trainer from rural Liberia taking part in and successful the competitors.
Dr. Jallah described Mr. Thomas as not only a trainer, however a visionary. By way of the Greatest Instructor Initiative, which he based, he has mentored different lecturers, helped construct skilled capability in marginalized areas, and sparked conversations about excellence in schooling at a nationwide stage.
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The Schooling Ministry boss then lauded the Nationwide Vetting and Nomination Committee for the Liberian Greatest Instructor Awards and the African Union Continental Instructor Award 2025 for working diligently and transparently to establish educators who mirror the most effective of Liberia’s educating occupation.
In response, Mr. Thomas thanked the MOE for his nomination, saying the ministry’s imaginative and prescient to uplift and professionalize the educating occupation is making a long-lasting distinction within the nation.
He then devoted the award to college students, lecturers who taught him, the Heart of Excellence -Instructor Schooling Bureau on the MOE, and most particularly to lecturers working underneath difficult circumstances in rural Liberia, saying, ‘Your work issues, your influence is immeasurable.’
In line with him, the award represents not solely Liberia however the West African area, noting that educating just isn’t solely a occupation however a calling to light up minds, open doorways to alternatives, and sow seeds of hope to communities usually forgotten or underserved. -Courtesy Joeseph Chilley
