Teaching methods could cause poor educational performance

Mr Nelson Gbadagba, the Director of Happy Stars International School in Ho, has said the rather less intuitive teaching methods in pre-school could be responsible for the perceived poor performance of pupils in basic schools.

He said the ‘push-down-the-mind’ approach as against the ‘come along’ approach made thought application among pupils generally low.

Mr Gbadagba was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the need to strengthen pre-school curricula in the country.

“Teaching methodology must be more interactive than instructive,” he stated.

Mr Gbadagba said pre-school teaching job was not just for any teacher.

“That teacher must have passion for kids, ability to relate with kids, handle them and must have a mother’s attitude towards kids,” he said.

Mr Gbadagba said the use of canes, especially at pre-school stages in the country was not right.

He said visiting schools and seeing teachers, all with canes, as if that represented a staff of duty, was unsightly.

Mr Gbadagba’s Happy Stars International is said to be a Montessori style educational system, first of its type in the Volta Region.

He said in the current global world, every level of formal education must aim at making the recipient fit into many other geographical settings.