Reading proficiency of pupils in early grades worrying

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• tee tee 10 years ago

  treat teachers well. stop that 3months pay policy. pay teachers allowances. useless gov't and GES.

  treat teachers well. stop that 3months pay policy. pay teachers allowances. useless gov't and GES.

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• OLD SOLDIER 10 years ago

  Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33)...
  Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.
  
  “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstre ...
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  Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33)...
  Ivor Greenstreet said directly to President John Mahama and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.
  
  “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s solidarity message to the NDC at the congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional Captial, Kumasi – stronghold of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).
  
  In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”
  
  “Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”
  
  He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”
  
  “Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”
  
  “NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”

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• insight to the bone 10 years ago

  Now that the dumsor barge fiasco has backfired and exploded in your face you present another half baked solution? Dumsor barge was meant to enable Ibrahim Mahama to own the majority of the independent power producing capabili ...
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  Now that the dumsor barge fiasco has backfired and exploded in your face you present another half baked solution? Dumsor barge was meant to enable Ibrahim Mahama to own the majority of the independent power producing capabilities , increase unnecessarily the rates on electricity so our home start getting bills 3 to 5 times what they are now. We may be already refugees and second class citizens in our own country but that does not make deaf and blind to the truth. We know the root cause of dumsor is your Anti Akan hate agenda and because Akosombo is on Akan territory you have allowed mismanagement and neglect to practically put out of function one turbine after another. You spread propaganda and lies about some water level mixed with bullshit about the whole thing being old or obsolete forgetting that most hydro generators in the world are older than ours but still functioning. No talk of the possibility that its still possible to send these defunct turbines to Europe , North America , Japan or even Russia (NEVER TURKEY)and have them re-calibrated . Due to lack of timely maintenance from neglect and corruption blessed by the hate of the Akans politics mixed with muslim caliphate destruction ,the turbines have all slowly spun out of axis and need to be dismantled to calibrate them , with the availability of new technology its even possible to increase the original 1000 megawatts to 1500 or even double if reverse turbines and other changes are made.

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• when 10 years ago

  Stupid gov't, HAVE YOU FORGOT THERE HAS BEEN THREE YEARS OF DUMSOR. HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO READ, FUCKN LEADERS.

  Stupid gov't, HAVE YOU FORGOT THERE HAS BEEN THREE YEARS OF DUMSOR. HOW DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO READ, FUCKN LEADERS.

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• Zion A.ayariga 10 years ago

  Good work done.System must be improved or change.

  Good work done.System must be improved or change.

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• ALI 10 years ago

  GIVE THEM TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS. PAY THEM WELL. I ABANDONED THIS JOB BECAUSE THERE IS NO MOTIVATION

  GIVE THEM TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS. PAY THEM WELL. I ABANDONED THIS JOB BECAUSE THERE IS NO MOTIVATION

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• BEMPAH 10 years ago

  Reading has been the greatest challenge most of basic schools are facing, especially village ones. The problem really starts from the KG. none of the primary headteachers and the regular teachers give little attention and eve ...
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  Reading has been the greatest challenge most of basic schools are facing, especially village ones. The problem really starts from the KG. none of the primary headteachers and the regular teachers give little attention and even no recognition is given to the KG education and its academic work. Most of the train and qualified teachers feel reluctant and shy to be seen teaching in the KG classroom. School managers always leave the KG children to the mercy of cooks and old frustrated aged women who always do the routine of eating, dancing and sleeping.
  The headteachers are the most ones who always neglect KG. You will never find them doing something like teaching at the KG, all because the kids Will dirty their shirts.
  And especially at the villages is always the KG kids who are in the deplorable classroom and somethings under trees. Anytime the mainstream run short of dualdust, those at the KG are moved out. The same thing applies to chalk, when there are not march chalk KG Will not get chalk. It happened to me when parent asked me in the face at Mr Bempah why, is it now you are dull that is they have moved you to kG.
  But the fact is, i decided myself to moved to the KG because i realized the problem of the school was coming from the KG. Please my colleague teachers and educationist lets bring our attention back to the KG level to lay strong foundation. Because if the KG is good you teachers at the mainstream and JHS will not suffer.

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• Abdallah 10 years ago

  Pupils Reading can only improve when you useless, incompetent Mahama administration and GES reduce the number of subjects in the lower primary. Treat teachers well, stop every 3 months headcounts as well as dumsor is concen. ...
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  Pupils Reading can only improve when you useless, incompetent Mahama administration and GES reduce the number of subjects in the lower primary. Treat teachers well, stop every 3 months headcounts as well as dumsor is concen. May almighty Allah send these DEMONS away. Creat loot and share people.

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• when 10 years ago

  Just shut up ok,
  What better WORK has your govt done on the Quality Education they promised Ghanaians apart from victimization of teachers. Teachers will send your disappointed gov't back to opposition idiot.

  Just shut up ok,
  What better WORK has your govt done on the Quality Education they promised Ghanaians apart from victimization of teachers. Teachers will send your disappointed gov't back to opposition idiot.

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• Albert,SA 10 years ago

  Government should take care of the basic levels.that's where it all begins.

  Government should take care of the basic levels.that's where it all begins.

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• Citizen One 10 years ago

  Please stop the lies our children are extremely proficient in Twi. They can calculate, analyze physics, chemistry, biology and all other subjects in Twi, because Twi is the new national language, and you can never change that ...
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  Please stop the lies our children are extremely proficient in Twi. They can calculate, analyze physics, chemistry, biology and all other subjects in Twi, because Twi is the new national language, and you can never change that.
  
  You people should stop speaking from both sides of your mouths, you want every Ghanain to be taught Twi not because it will ever give them wisdom, but just to prove how superior majorities always are. Now you all looking and sounding stupid in church, classroom, on tv, radio and the streets.
  
  Yes we are proficient !!!

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• TT 10 years ago

  How can pupils read when u can't motivate their teachers? Most teachers have to walk miles to school, no bungalows, no teaching materials, no transfer grant for transferred teachers. Apart from all these and others District d ...
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  How can pupils read when u can't motivate their teachers? Most teachers have to walk miles to school, no bungalows, no teaching materials, no transfer grant for transferred teachers. Apart from all these and others District directors are on teachers neck introducing policies that infringe teachers right who do u expect to feel the heat? Pupils will. Until all these change their performance will continue to be bad.

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• USMAN 10 years ago

  I have always been saying that governance is not meant for academicians. Look at the abysmal achievements of a whole professor of English in charge of our education ministry. What legacy is she leaving behind as a professor ...
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  I have always been saying that governance is not meant for academicians. Look at the abysmal achievements of a whole professor of English in charge of our education ministry. What legacy is she leaving behind as a professor of English education and a whole minister of education. This is how far our useless university graduates have brought us.

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• Joe Turkey 10 years ago

  This is not the first time we are hearing this; who is doing anything about it? Reading - and writing - has never been a priority under the JSS and SSS system. The so-called revolutionaries wanted carpenters, butchers, tailor ...
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  This is not the first time we are hearing this; who is doing anything about it? Reading - and writing - has never been a priority under the JSS and SSS system. The so-called revolutionaries wanted carpenters, butchers, tailors, hairdressers et all the stupid ceteras. Go back and read all the revolutionary discussions before the introduction of the JSS.

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• Advice 10 years ago

  Ghanaian kindergarten and elementary school teachers do not know how to teach reading.Let them learn from their American counterparts. Simply learning how to recite the alphabet doesn't do it. Let the kids know the sounds ass ...
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  Ghanaian kindergarten and elementary school teachers do not know how to teach reading.Let them learn from their American counterparts. Simply learning how to recite the alphabet doesn't do it. Let the kids know the sounds associated with each letter in the alphabet too.

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