The Deputy Regional Minister for Upper East, Dr. Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem, has slammed teachers over their poor attitude towards work in recent times.
According to him, most teachers have no passion for the teaching profession, adding they are only motivated merely by money and calls for a change in that regard.
He says he observes with regret that laziness and other related despicable attitudes being exhibited by teachers lately is the bane of the falling standards of education in the country.
Dr. Kuganab-Lem who doubles as the ruling National Democratic Congress, NDC parliamentary candidate for the Binduri Constituency, made this known at stakeholders' meeting at the St. John Boscos College of Education in Navrongo of the Upper East Region.
The meeting sought to seek dissenting opinions from illustrious stakeholders on the implementation of the Transforming Education and Learning, T-TEL project of the school.
The project, if fully implemented, would transform the delivery of pre-service teacher education in Ghana by stimulating the quality of teaching and learning in the college.
But Dr. Kugabab asserts the implementation of the project may suffer a setback in its desire to achieve its objectives, if teachers remain adamant in their poor behaviours and attitudes.
He underscored the need for tutors and teachers at all levels to optimistically cast their net much wider by capitalising on the T-TEL project to reverse the falling standards of education in the country.
He also charged tutors to delve into indepth research, so as to impart knowledge on teacher trainees in order to enable them become good assets in the educational sector.
"This T-TEL project should make students who have graduated from this St. John Boscos school different. The project will be of no benefit if teacher trainees graduate from this school and cannot introduce something innovative in the teaching field", Dr. Kuganab-Lem said.
He indicated the change of the name from Teacher Training College to College of Education had not reflected in the delivery of students who were churned out from the institution, challenging authorities of the Ghana Education Service, GES and Principals of the Colleges of Education to reflect on the bad academic performance of students and experiment to provide a solution to it.
"Research is very critical in teaching and learning. I think if we want to grow in the right direction, then we have to think of research.
"I was just wondering how Teacher Training became Teacher Education. Have we done research to know what the change has brought to bare?", he retorted rhetorically.
For his part, the Quality Assurance Officer for the St. John Boscos College of Education, Callistus Nakphih, said he was optimistic the T-TEL project would enormously improve the academic work of the school, adding the tutors would be armed to deliver effectively by inculcating specific skills in the students.
He disclosed the college was awarded GHC60,904.90 to carry the prosecution of the project.
Source: Francis Dabre Dabang/ email: [email protected]
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