Rotary institutes award for Volta Region teachers
The Ho Rotary Club has instituted an award scheme, to honour basic schools, teachers and pupils who will perform excellently in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) by the end of the year.
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The scheme, which is in line with the club's theme for the 2014/2015 Rotary Year: "Lighting up Education in the Volta Region," is to motivate basic school teachers in the region for higher commitment to service and professional performance, as well as to foster healthy competition among communities, schools, pupils, and teachers.
The club also plans to introduce reading clinics, regular career counselling sessions and training programmes for teachers in the Volta Region.
Awards
Fifty-four awards are expected to be given out to best schools and deserving teachers and pupils, from the kindergarten level to the junior high school.
The overall best teacher will receive a certificate, Rotary Gold Teachers’ Scholarship while the overall best student will take home a certificate and Rotary Gold Pupils Scholarship.
The overall best school will receive a trophy and a citation in addition to a quantity of desks, teachers’ tables and chairs, and a set of books, among others.
Launching the programme, the President of the club, Mr Rockson Kwasi Dogbegah, stated that the award scheme was to complement efforts being made by other stakeholders to reverse the poor and declining academic performance in the region, since 2009.
According to him, rotary club had identified the lack of competition among schools and low commitment of teachers as contributing greatly to the problem.
The selection, he disclosed, would be done based on recommendations from the Volta Regional Rotary Education Monitoring Task force, Regional Director of Education and District / Municipal Directors of Education.
Commendation
The Planning Officer of the Volta Regional Education Directorate, Mr Bright Dey, stated that the idea of the Ho Rotary Club taking the initiative to award schoolteachers was highly commendable.
He expressed the hope that the initiative would lead to improved performance of students in the BECE in the region.
The Rotary Club is a service organisation of business and professional persons united to undertake humanitarian projects and encourage high ethical standards in all vocations to attain peace and progress.
