Adaklu District begins education re-engineering programme
An educational sector re-engineering programme, expected to hold back lowering educational performance in public basic and senior secondary schools in the newly created Adaklu District in the Volta Region, has taken off.
The multi-faceted agenda should by 2017, veer the district back into the “cradle of high education laurel achievers the area was associated with in the past”.
Mr Isaac Koku Asiegbor, Adaklu District Director of Education was speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on Thursday on the sidelines of a crunch meeting of head teachers in the district at Adaklu-Waya, called at the instance of the District Chief Executive of the area.
Mr Asiegbor said the District Education Directorate would in the coming months undertake interactions to strengthen the skills of teachers across the district in the methodologies of teaching.
He said supervision would be scaled up and non-conforming teachers sanctioned.
“Anyone who is not ready for the new regime of doing things must find his or her way out. We are not going to tolerate poor work,’ Mr Asiegbor said.
He said time when teachers arrived at school late, left before end of session, used contact hours to prosecute programmes for distant learning courses and other personal businesses should be considered over.
Mr Asiegbor said it was essential that teachers impacted reading skills to their pupils as the very basis for attaining scholarship.
He presented a three and half page “Education Operational Policy Strategies and Guiding Principles” to the meeting, saying that every teacher was expected to improve his or her skills in ICT.
On performance statistics, Mr Asiegbor said it was yet to be disaggregated from the Adaklu-Anyigbe District from which the new Adaklu District was carved out.
He said in any case the new district’s performance should be a reflection of the Adaklu-Anyigbe District which had 20 per cent pass in the 2012 BECE.
Mr Emmanuel Sky Ganaku, the DCE, said the district was poised to transform its educational performance profile to “another level,” and that the Assembly was poised to support all feasible measures in that direction.
He said it was regrettable that teachers should be heard celebrating students for attaining aggregate 21 at the BECE examination.
Togbe Agbobada IV, Senior Divisional Chief of the Adaklu Traditional Area, pledged the support of the traditional authorities for the programme and stressed the need for congenial schools and the various communities.
Challenges listed by the various circuits include lack of textbooks, accommodation for teachers, parental apathy and lack of teachers.
Source: GNA