Female teachers asked to be good role models
The increase in crime and social vices has been attributed to the impartation of wrong education and information to the youth. To this end, a tutor at the Kumasi Girls Senior High School (KGSH), Mrs Matilda Gyamerah, has called for a re-look into the nation’s educational system.
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Mrs Gyamerah made the attribution at a roundtable conference organised by the leadership of the Ghana National Association of Teachers Ladies (GNAT-LAS) in the Kumasi Metropolis.
She explained that with good education people were supposed to behave well, live up to expectation and avoid acts that could retard the development of the nation such as corruption and other social vices.
Mrs Gyamerah said there was the need for parents and teachers to team up to impart the right moral training and education to children so that they would receive holistic education
The event, which was on the theme: “Transforming societies through education, the role of the female teacher: agenda 2030,” was attended by over 50 GNAT-LAS coordinators from 16 zones in the Kumasi metropolis and was part of activities marking International Women’s Day.
Role models
Mrs Gyamerah, who was the guest speaker at the function, urged teachers, especially females, to remain good role models and motivators to the pupils they taught so that they would grow to become good citizens wherever they might find themselves after their education for the benefit of society and the nation.
“Apart from teaching them, relate and treat them very well with the respect they deserve so that they would like you to be with them at all times,” she said, and added that such behaviour could even prevent absenteeism among the pupils since they would like to be in school at all times.
Discipline
Mrs Gyamerah challenged teachers to be disciplined themselves since the children learned from them at all times, saying, “if you do not behave well, it was possible the children might adopt such bad behaviours for their future life.”
She decried the attitude whereby some teachers used school instructional hours for their private affairs such as doing business instead of being in school to teach, a practice which affected the quality of education in the country.
The Kumasi Metro GNAT Secretary, Mr Johnson Kwaku Adu, said the roundtable was among the various initiatives put in place by the gender desk of GNAT to promote the development of female teachers.
He urged the GNAT-LAS members to take keen interest in all activities organised for them so that it would improve their profession, as well as enhance their day-to-day activities as teachers.
A Deputy Director of Finance and Administration at the Kumasi Metro Office of Education, Mrs Alice Asianowa, called for the reintroduction of ‘’Courtesy for Boys and Girls’’, a reading book which schools in the country used some years ago, into the nation’s educational system since it could reshape the morals of the youth.
She appealed to all stakeholders in the education sector to redouble their effort so that holistic education could be attained for the betterment of the nation.