GES urges teachers to avail themselves of training programmes

 
The Kumasi Metropolitan Director of Education, Mr. Alexander Atta Asante, has asked teachers to avail themselves of training programmes to upgrade and enhance their classroom performance.

He said in-service training organized by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for them were meant to help ensure effective teaching.

Such programmes were also part of the criteria used to promote the teachers and he warned that anybody who skipped these “will have themselves to blame”.

Mr. Atta Asante, addressing the opening session of a two-day workshop for selected teachers in the metropolis, said it would be wrong for them to assume that the training programmes were “a mere formality”.

The workshop is being attended by more than 300 Basic Design and Technology (BDT) teachers from public and private schools.

 It is providing the platform to assess the Chief Examiner’s Report for the 2015 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) regarding the BDT courses.

This way they would be kept abreast and become adequately equipped with the right teaching modes and techniques.

Mr. Atta Asante noted that programmes offered under the BDT including pre-technical skills, visual arts, as well as home economics constituted the foundation for improving the creative skills of pupils and students.

He said it was therefore important for these to be taken seriously to build the human resource base of the nation.

Mr. Yaw Kwakye-Marfo, the Metropolitan Coordinator of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), told the participants to put into practice the new things learned.

They would want to see marked improvement in their output, he added.
 
GNA