Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana
National Association of Teachers (GNAT) in-charge of professional development,
Ms Gifty Apanbil, on Thursday said lack of innovation in the educational sector
is affecting the delivery of quality teaching.
"Some people will want to be
innovative but our system is such that it does not allow innovation and once it
does not allow innovation, people who have the urge to innovate things are
crippled and frustrating and they leave the profession.
"Majority of teachers are leaving
the job because of frustration...," she observed.
Ms Apanbil made the observation during
the 57th Annual GNAT/CTF Professional workshop for teachers of Volta and Oti
regions held at the St. Francis College of Education at Hohoe in the Volta
Region.
She said quality education delivery
entailed quality teachings and learning environment, infrastructure and
well-motivated children prepared to learn and supported by their parents as
well as a supportive community.
Ms Apanbil said posting of teachers to
remote areas without incentives was also frustrating them.
She, therefore, called on the Ghana
Education Service to take a second look at policies such as the recruitment,
re-posting and retention, saying, the only way to retain teachers was to create
necessary conditions that would make teachers enjoy working.
Ms Apanbil also called on the
government to invest in vocational and technical education by providing the
needed facilities and infrastructure to offer employable skills to the youth
and reduce unemployment.
She said teachers were being taken
through the new curriculum and prayed the relevant books and resources be made
available for the effective implementation of the curriculum.
Source: Ghana News Agency
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