Teachers advised to avail themselves of training programmes

The Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, Mr Alexander Atta Asante, has asked teachers to avail themselves of training programmes to upgrade and enhance their classroom performance.
He said in-service training organised by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for them were meant to help ensure effective teaching and warned that those who skipped the programmes “will have themselves to blame”.

Mr Atta Asante, who was addressing the opening session of a two-day workshop for selected teachers in the metropolis, said it would be wrong for them to assume that the training programmes were “a mere formality”.

The workshop was attended by more than 300 Basic Design and Technology (BDT) teachers from public and private schools in the metropolis.

Teaching techniques

It provided them with the platform to assess the Chief Examiner’s Report for the 2015 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) regarding the BDT courses, to keep them abreast of the right teaching modes and techniques.

Mr Atta Asante noted that programmes offered under the BDT, including pre-technical skills, visual arts, as well as home economics, constituted the foundation for improving the creative skills of pupils and students.

He said it was, therefore, important to take such courses seriously as they helped to build the human resource base of the nation.

The Metropolitan Coordinator of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Mr Yaw Kwakye-Marfo, told the participants to put into practice the new things learned to ensure improvement in their output.
— GNA