Teachers asked to serve as agents of change
An ex-district director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr David Melody Kofi Dotsey, has appealed to teachers to act responsibly and stand up to be real agents of change to help transform society.
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Speaking at the fifth quadrennial delegates’ conference of the Kadjebi District Secretariat of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) at Kadjebi in the Volta Region, Mr Dotsey advised teachers to desist from deviant behaviour in order not to dent the image of the teaching profession.
He said teacher absenteeism, drunkenness, sexual harassment and amorous relationship between pupils and teachers were on the increase and must cease.
Good moral values
Mr Dotsey called on parents to inculcate good moral values such as honesty, respect for other people and care and maintenance for family property to enable them to transfer those traits to school and public settings when they grew up.
Mr Dotsey, who delivered a paper on the theme: “Quality Teacher, the Principal Agent for Transforming Society through Education”, called on teachers to impact knowledge, skills and good values into the pupils and also see the teaching profession as a call to serve humanity.
“Quality in-take, quality training, good orientation and admission of students with right grades into Colleges of Education would result in producing quality teachers,” he said.
He also appealed to Ghanaians to help protect and maintain state properties to prolong their lifespan, stressing that the current state where the public handled state property with scorn must stop.
The Kadjebi District GNAT Chairman, Mr William Ameley, appealed to the Kadjebi District Assembly to supervise the school feeding caterers because food served to the pupils were of low quality
Commendation
Mr Ameley also thanked the Kadjebi District office of the GES and the government for paying the salaries of 333 teachers who had taught for three to four years without salary.
The Volta Regional Secretary of the GNAT, Mr Lare Kitonname, appealed to the executive to transmit every information they received from association to members to avoid rumour mongering, misinformation and misinterpretation of information, stressing that poor information flow must belong to the past.
Mr Kitonname also called on members to eschew the practice of apportioning blame on the least provocation to enable them to move forward as a team.
An Assistant Director of Education in charge of Human Resource Management and Development at the Kadjebi District Directorate of the GES, Mr Gasper Hopeson Tetteh, in a speech read on behalf of the District Director of Education, advised teachers to work hard to help improve the standard of education in the district because the district’s 2016 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) result was disappointing.
Mr Tetteh also admonished them to desist from teacher absenteeism, drunkenness and indecent relationship with pupils.
The delegates elected the following personalities to steer the affairs of the association for a period of four years.
They include: Mr Philip Obornie, Chairman; Mr Anthony Agortimevor, Vice Chairman; Ms Victoria Klugah, treasurer; Mr Prosper Fiakumah, trustee; Mr Bright Dossou, youth co-ordinator; Mr Emmanuel Eklu, basic school representative; Mr Edward Tetteh, second cycle representative; Mr Ebenezer Okae, education administration representative and Mr Mawuli Gamor, GNATLAS Co-ordinator.