Saltpond (C/R), Oct. 13, GNA - Seventy-six newly trained teachers who were sponsored by the Mfantseman District Assembly and 50 pupil teachers recruited under the youth in employment programme were inducted into the Ghana Education Service at Saltpond.
They were taken through conditions of service, code of ethics, as well as code of conduct for teachers.
Mr Robert Quainoo-Arthur, Mfantseman District Chief Executive (DCE), charged them to be agents of change.
=93Society expects you teachers to bring some transformation into the socio-economic and cultural life of the people, especially those in the rural areas=94, the DCE admonished.
He urged them to give priority to sanitation. 93If you are able to educate them to appreciate why they should keep their homes and surroundings clean at all times, you would be protecting them from contracting diseases which are caused by filth.=94
Mr Quainoo-Arthur urged the new teachers to take their work seriously no matter where they were posted to. 93You should be able to make the pupil in the remotest corner of the country to compete favourably with his counterpart in the city since you all use the same syllabus and textbooks,=94 he added.
Miss Vivian Etroo, Director of Education, enjoined them to be dedicated to the task, irrespective of where they are posted. =93The pupil in the remotest village needs to be educated and therefore needs a teacher, so you must help him to come to the lime light.=94
The Rev Solomon Paa Grant Essilfie, Headmaster of Saltpond Methodist High School, who conducted the induction service, advised teachers to strive to be role models, especially to the pupils in their school. Mr Thomas Abakah, the District Welfare Officer, advised them to eschew excessive drinking of alcohol, immoral behaviour, and 93dubious means of acquiring wealth=94.
