Minister urges teachers to improve on teaching style

Mr Ishmael Ayittey, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, has called on teachers to change and improve on their style of teaching to cope with the changing trends, since the profession revolves around transformation and development.

“It is time our educational system is geared towards promoting teaching not just for examinations, but rather to use the knowledge and skills acquired to produce goods and services needed in national life”, he said.

The Regional Minister said this in Accra at the 5th Quadrennial Regional Delegates Conference of the Greater Accra Ghana National Association of Teachers.

The conference was held under the theme “Transforming Societies Through Education Under the Agenda 2030: 60 Years of Ghana’s Education System; Educating for Certification or Educating for Self-Sustaining Life Transformation”.

He said the theme was timely because the education 2030 Agenda was an important part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal which referred to the global commitment of the ‘Education for All’ and sought to ensure access to basic education for all.

“The goal further stretches from early childhood learning to youth and adult education and emphasized the acquisition of skills for work that hinged on the importance of citizenship education, inclusivity, equity and gender equality”.

Mr Ayittey said teachers constituted important resources in the government agenda to improve the quality of education, saying government’s policy to improve educational outcomes would be teacher-centred and friendly.

He urged participants to make good use of the engagement and discuss issues of concern and make meaningful inputs to be inculcated into government’s policies on education.

Dr Peter Attafuah, the Regional Director of Education, said when society gets its education right, the rest of the challenges would fall in line, urging all stakeholders to prioritize on quality education for all.