Lutheran school teachers attend proficiency seminar
Eighty teachers from five Evangelical Lutheran Church Schools in the country have benefited from a staff development workshop to enhance their proficiency in delivering quality basic education to their students.
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The schools involved in the exercise were the St Paul’s, Trinity, Holy Trinity, St Peter’s and the All Saints Lutheran Schools.
The workshop, which was the climax of a seven-day series of workshops organised by management of the institution to educate the staff on educational technology, was also geared towards building their capacities and sensitising them to efficient ways of using technology to interact with their students.
It was also to bring teachers together to learn and brainstorm on measures to use technological innovations such as Google Drive to set assignments for students and give them instant feedback on their works.
Participants were taken through the intricacies of team work, child-driven education and ways to empower their students to inculcate blogging, the use of social media and codes in their learning.
Essence of programme
The Assistant Professor of the School of Education from the Concordia University Irvine-USA, Mr Tim Schumacher, who acted as a facilitator at the workshop, said the significance of the initiative was to empower students to be resilient and embrace the use of technology in their operations.
Speaking on the theme: “Expanding the Frontiers of Education in the 21st Century through Education,” Mr Schumacher said the workshop would encourage teachers to connect with other educational mentors globally so they could share ideas to help change the face of education in the country.
Institution’s specialities
The Executive Manager of the Holy Trinity Lutheran School, Mr Kwaku F. Darkwah, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that apart from inculcating in their students good morals and behavourial traits, Lutheran schools also took them through requisite education that was aligned with international standards.
According to him, management of the Lutheran schools had invested in many technological innovations that enhanced the teaching and learning of both staff and students, adding that the initiative had helped to improve the institution’s academic standards.
For instance, he said, the schools operated a system that helped teachers upload assignments and other projects online, and in turn the students solved them and sent feedbacks for assessment.
Quite apart from this enterprise, Mr Darkwah said management had employed a new system that would have the databases of students, their academic results and other vital information about the operations of the institutions.