Integrate teaching practice to cover entire training - Educationists

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• The mask 11 years ago

  Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.
  
  Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the on ...
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  Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.
  
  Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the only certificate that can tell whether one can speak good English or whether one has adequate knowledge of Mathematics is the Secondary School Certificate.
  
  Similarly the only certificate that can tell whether a tertiary graduate has basic knowledge of Ghanaian history, culture, agriculture and the basic geography of West Africa is the Basic Education Certificate.

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• Soothsayer 11 years ago

  Good suggestion but it means the academic training should be increased to 3 years. The academic training is woefully inadequate so the incompetent teacher doesn't enjoy the job. This is the reason for the absenteeism and sear ...
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  Good suggestion but it means the academic training should be increased to 3 years. The academic training is woefully inadequate so the incompetent teacher doesn't enjoy the job. This is the reason for the absenteeism and search for greener pastures

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• Mahmoud 11 years ago

  After six years in office with high commodity prices including oil, and after recklessly borrowing to the tune of about 60% of the GDP or more, forcing the Cedi to depreciate to about 40% of its value in few months and the go ...
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  After six years in office with high commodity prices including oil, and after recklessly borrowing to the tune of about 60% of the GDP or more, forcing the Cedi to depreciate to about 40% of its value in few months and the government rushing to the IMF for a bail out, the NDC government is now propagating deceitfully that it is looking for ways to reduce Ghana's import bill on rice, sugar, tomatoes, among other items, by encouraging the production of those commodities locally.
  
  Do you think these guys are sincere and realistic when they have only two years to leave office? Food production is a priority that should have been started since 2009, but they said they are still looking for ways to start it next year or so. Verily, these guys can cook figures to deceive Ghanaians but they cannot cook figures to deceive the IMF.

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• Haningay 11 years ago

  Long over due though. Introduce performanace management as well to bring teachers to have a vision for teaching.

  Long over due though. Introduce performanace management as well to bring teachers to have a vision for teaching.

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• Benjamin Ashie 11 years ago

  I personally don't know what the heck this man is talking about because "Teaching Practice" is and was already part of teachers training in ALL 38 training colleges in Ghana. Your first teaching practice begins when you get t ...
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  I personally don't know what the heck this man is talking about because "Teaching Practice" is and was already part of teachers training in ALL 38 training colleges in Ghana. Your first teaching practice begins when you get to second year(twice). Ant then your final year(3rd) you also do another one(twice). So in all I, or should say we had four supervised teaching practice during our 3 years of training.
  May be it's not happing in some colleges then those colleges should be tasked to follow the curriculum.

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• Nana London 11 years ago

  Teaching Practice for Teacher training students was a very viable and rich exercise. That was the norm in my teaching days. Hence the standard of the teachers who passed through that exercise while in trainig colleges was uni ...
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  Teaching Practice for Teacher training students was a very viable and rich exercise. That was the norm in my teaching days. Hence the standard of the teachers who passed through that exercise while in trainig colleges was uniquely high. Please revisit this practice for the current teacher training students and it will yield a rich dividend for Ghana's education.

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