Ghanaian Times: Setting Goals for Teachers

Editorial Noticias for Friday, November 27, 2020

Source: Ghana Times

2020-11-27

Both professional and non-professional teachers will receive a Continuing Professional Development Grant (CPDA) starting this month (November 2020).

The Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, revealing this to our reporter, said that more than 301,000 teachers across the country were the beneficiaries.

He explained that professional teachers would be paid a net GH ¢ 1,200 while non-professional teachers would receive GH ¢ 800 (Please read the story on the cover).

The CPDA is intended to help teachers pay for additional tuition fees and also purchase books for courses or self-education to improve.

The Ghanaian Times hopes that more incentives will be given to teachers to motivate them to do everything possible to ensure that they offer their pupils / students the best level of education.

The success of the formal education system in each country in meeting the needs and aspirations of society depends on the quality of teachers, which has to do with their appreciable level of knowledge and better attitude towards teaching.

The good teacher is one who updates himself to be up to date with current knowledge and skills, and the best methods to adopt to impart these knowledge and skills.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a Turkish field marshal, statesman and author, sums this up in the saying: “A good teacher is like a candle; it is consumed to light the way for others. “

The Ghanaian Times congratulates the beneficiary teachers for winning the fight for this assignment. We also congratulate the government for seeing the need to give teachers such a subsidy. No teacher can question the fact that the level of education in the country has fallen beyond everyone’s imagination, and one of the causes of this is the poor attitude of the teacher towards teaching and learning.

Some teachers don’t prepare before going to class; others adopt poor teaching methods, while a good number of them have not been updated since leaving school.

There are teachers who choose to be late for school and also on the day they want to. Some drop out of school early. Some also go well to the classroom, but they go there to pass the time to the detriment of their pupils and students.

These bad attitudes must end for the better if Ghana is to be counted among the countries that have education systems that are reliable to meet the needs and aspirations of their societies.

One of the expectations of education is a good language, both spoken and written, and this is a big problem in Ghana. The teachers themselves must be fluent in the English language and some local languages ​​so that they can teach our children, who are the leaders of tomorrow.

The Ghanaian Times wishes to prompt the GES that the norm now is that employers give employees targets to meet, to deserve their salaries and allowances.

Therefore, it would not be out of place to give teachers objectives so that they abandon the bad attitudes they show towards teaching. For example, it should be the goal / standard for teachers to ensure that the poorest brain in their class scores at least 50 percent on relevant subjects, even when tested by external examiners.

The Ghanaian Times believes that with the right policies and the appreciable attitudes of our teachers, our educational standard would improve.

And improving educational standards can be a good reason for teachers to request more assignments.