I started teaching at age ten – 2017 National Best Teacher
The National Best Teacher for 2017, Ms Fautina Coppson said she started teaching at age ten.
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She said she began teaching when she was in class four.
Speaking to Graphic Online in Accra on Monday, Ms Coppson said she had developed the passion for the job since then.
She explained that “I saw myself teaching way back in class four, I started gathering Sunday school children and teaching them any time our Sunday school teachers were not available. So they realising I have the interest they created a very younger class for me, so I started handling them. The very young ones, below five and six years there about. I started handling them at church. So at that level at class four I started teaching them. I grew with it.”
She said in addition to teaching the Sunday school children in the Methodist Church, she was also given the mandate to teach the girls fellowship of the church.
Invest in your children
Buttressing the importance of parents investing in the education of their children, Ms Coppson said the chance given her by parents Mr and Mrs Coppson had paid off.
She was of the view that parents are supposed devote their time and finances to support the welbeing and the educational need of their children but she lamented that was not the case.
She further mentioned that some parents do not make time to follow up on their children after they had gain admission to school.
She added that a number of parents also fail to acquire learning materials for their children.
This, Ms Coppson noted hinders the academic performance of the children and the evaluation process of the teacher, “ A child can come to school a whole term and there are no exercise books, no pencils, nothing and you are a teacher and you are preparing lesson notes every week to teach. How do you teach them” she questioned.
She therefore advised parents to make time to visit the schools of their wards in order to get first hand information on the educational development of their children.
Recall
Ms Faustina Coppson a primary one teacher of Richard Akwei Memorial School at Agbobloshie in the Greater Accra Region beat two others to winner the coveted prize.
The 41-year old teacher received a three bedroom house, GH ₵50,000 cedis and life insurance cover from SIC.
