Newfound Friends at the International Conference

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Edem Nutakor, 27, Biology teacher from Ghana. Like me Edem is so passionate about science that he wanted to go out of his country for graduate training. He's teaching junior lower high school in his country. See more pics in the conference.
This is Sir Edgar Caganaan, a sixth grade science teacher from Zamboanga. With him is Mam Helen, a colleague from the same place and was also very interested with my paper. She's taking up her master's.
Dr. Declan Kennedy is from the University College Cork in Ireland. He is the European representative sent by the International Council of Associations for Science Education (ICASE). He said beautiful things about my poster. Like me, he is also an advocate of alternative assessment in education (particularly rubrics assessment).

There are still two others I met and got intimate with, but unfortunately I forgot my camera during the first day of the conference. They were high school teachers from Saranggani province.

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There were about 600+ teachers, researchers, curriculum developers and planners who attended the conference. Some 200+ of these were not accommodated anymore in the conference hall because they registered late. A short-circuit broadcast was installed outside the auditorium for these late group of registrants.

Anyway, it was really fun to meet these teachers/educators whom I spent a lot of time talking and sharing practices about science education. Indeed, less is more!

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