‘Keep abreast of modern teaching trends’
TEACHERS have been asked to make learning more interesting to students by regularly updating their knowledge in modern teaching trends and innovative teaching methods.
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They should also guide their students to use modern ICT gadgets to learn. They were advised to be selfless and remain committed to the profession.
A Senior Lecturer at the Department of French, University of Cape Coast, Dr Edem Kwashie Bakah, made the call when he launched the 50th anniversary celebration of Abor Senior High School (ABORSCO).
The theme for the celebration, which is slated for November 2015, is: “Provision of Quality Education: The Role of Stakeholders.”
Role models
Dr Bakah appealed to teachers to serve as role models to their students because quality education was not necessarily about giving expensive education to children but was about inculcating in them the right training and developing their right character.
He advised students to abhor indiscipline and asked parents to be concerned with their children’s education by providing them with their needs.
“Government must also provide the right environment for learning but as its support for education continues to dwindle, the community and old students as well must complement the efforts,” Dr Bakah suggested.
He expressed worry that at 50, ABORSCO was still facing infrastructural challenges.
Performance in WASSCE, BECE
Mr Raphael Kwashie, Keta Municipal Education Director, said only 28.11 per cent of students who sat for the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 2014 qualified for tertiary institutions in the country, pointing out that even though the figure was cited as the best recorded by the school in a decade, it should be a source of concern.
He said the 42.96 per cent pass recorded in the municipality in this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) indicated that nearly 60 per cent of the pupils were not likely to progress to the next level of the educational ladder, and called for a more progressive approach to halt the trend.
The Headmistress of the school, Mrs Nancy Goh, appealed for the provision of a library, laboratory, dining and assembly halls and dormitory blocks for the school.
She said ABORSCO had made gallant strides from a humble beginning as a community private school until 1982 when it was absorbed by the Ghana Education Service, and could become a model school if supported.— GNA
