Story: A. Kofoya-Tetteh, Koforidua
THE District Chief Executive (DCE) for Birim North in the Eastern Region, Nana Acquah Frempong, has asked basic school teachers in the district to help improve the educational standard in the area.
According to him, that could be accomplished if the teachers imparted the required knowledge to their pupils to enable them to climb the academic ladder in order to become useful citizens in future.
Nana Acquah Frempong made the call when he addressed a two-day seminar for teachers at New Abirem.
The seminar, which was jointly organised by the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Birim North District Assembly, was to educate the teachers on the new educational reforms syllabi to enable them to perform creditably.
The DCE said the future of pupils depended on how best teachers would perform, adding that it was their responsibility to assist pupils to acquire the relevant knowledge to assist them move forward academically.
“Let us remember how our teachers handled us to make us what we are today so that we also do likewise for the pupils,” Nana Acquah Frempong, who was once a classroom teacher, told the gathering.
The DCE expressed the hope that the seminar would equip the participants with the necessary skills in their chosen field, giving the assurance that the assembly would do its best to improve teaching and learning in schools in the area.
He also asked parents to take advantage of the government’s numerous educational initiatives such as the Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme, and enrol their children in school.
The acting Birim North District Director of Education, Mr Jonathan Akakpo, urged the teachers to consider the assistance offered them by their former teachers in their school days and reciprocate such ventures, stressing, “That is the only way through which society would progress.”
A resource person from the Curriculum Research and Development Division of the GES, Alhaji Seidu Mahamma, gave an overview of the syllabi and suggested the inclusion of Religious and Moral Education in the curriculum.
He also asked teachers to be disciplined and dress properly to serve as an example for the pupils.
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