Teachers Should Prepare To Face Educational Challenges - DG

Miss Naana Biney, Acting Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has called on teachers to prepare themselves to face the challenges confronting 648 in the country. She also urged them to respond to the present technological advancement by developing a positive attitude towards their work in the classrooms to bring about better results. Miss Biney gave the advice at the inauguration of a modern school complex at the cost of 900,000 dollars on Wednesday at Mataheko in the Ablekuma Central District, to enhance effective teaching and learning. She said upgrading the school its from its dilapidated state, the provision of potable water, sanitary facility, library and computer centres, teachers' rest room, and conference hall among others, must impact positively on learning outcome and performance of the pupils. The project, which was part of a five-year infrastructural development programme of the Electricity Supply Board (ESB), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) from Ireland to support some selected schools at Teshie, Osu and Kaneshie in Accra, was aimed at raising the quality of basic education. Miss Biney gave the assurance that supervision and monitoring arrangements would be put in place to ensure effective teaching and learning to bring about improvement in academic performance. The Acting Director expressed gratitude to ESB for supporting the Government in improving the country's human resource base for future development. Nii Armah Ashietey, Greater Accra Regional Minister, emphasised the Government's commitment to improving the country's 648al facilities, adding that, "We are embarking on several 648 reforms and policy measures towards making education more accessible to all. "Our efforts at transforming education are confronted with so many challenges," he said, adding that all Ghanaians had a collective responsibility towards improving the quality of teaching and learning in schools. The Minister said achieving a solid foundation, credible and efficient education system capable of producing the quality of human resource needed to engineer national development required sacrifice, dedication, commitment and hard work from teachers, pupils, parents and private partners. He said government alone could not shoulder the responsibility and appealed to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and management of the school to ensure that they took proper care of the infrastructure and adopt a regular maintenance culture. Mr Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, AMA Chief Executive, said the choice of Accra for the Millennium City Project called for a special programme, hence the need to change the face and culture of the city by abolishing the school shift system for the benefit of pupils. He said the children were future leaders and needed quality 648 to enable them to become useful citizens for the nation and promised that the AMA would maintain the facility to ensure that effective management was put in place for the benefit of all.