New educational reforms will instil discipline in children
Mr Joseph Kwabena Onyinah, Ashanti Regional Director of Education, on Friday observed that the new educational reform would instil a sense of discipline into children to study hard to become assets and not liabilities.
Mr Onyinah said this when he addressed over 1,500 basic school teachers from the Sekyere East and Sekyere-Afram Plains Districts attending a three-day district training at Effiduase in the Sekyere East District.
The Sekyere East District Education Directorate organised the training which aimed at updating the teachers’ knowledge on the curriculum of the new educational reform and also improved their professional performance and academic skills to promote quality education delivery.
Mr Onyinah noted that teachers were the major stakeholders to ensure the success of the reform and that their attitudes and performance would be the criterion to measure the impact of the reform.
Mr Kofi Sarfo Kantanka, the Sekyere East District Director of education said equipping teachers with the requisite skills and knowledge was crucial to improve the quality of the instructional process for quality learning in schools.
He said the Ministry of Education Science and Sports (MOESS) and the Ghana Education Service (GES), have committed themselves to making the issues of teacher quality development the major strategy to improve quality education in Ghana.
“If you are apathetic, uncommitted, uninspired, lazy and ill-motivated, the whole nation is doomed”.
Mr Sarfo, therefore, stressed that capacity building of teachers was the only means by which they could reform themselves to reflect the changes needed to raise educational standard.
He entreated the participants to continue to deepen the understanding of the subject matter and teaching skills.
Source: GNA
