Summary Of Teachers Forum with the Minister Of Education At Kumasi on Thursday 24th, August, 2023
Summary Of Teachers Forum with the Minister Of Education At Kumasi on Thursday 24th, August, 2023
WITH THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION AT KUMASI ANGLICAN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Here are the 20 relevantes points that should be implemented in various all over the country, stated by the Minister Of Education on Thursday during Teachers Forum at Kumasi Anglican Senior High School.
The Minister of Education Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum was in attendance, including all the major educational stakeholders in Ashante Region. The Minister made mentioned:
- The objective of implementing educational policies is to arouse innovative, creativity, critical thinking from every student. The heads of the various sectors of education must ensure such objectives are achieved. The minister emphasized that the future of the next generation rests in our hands.
- Directors were encouraged to do their best and make the Public Basic Schools desirable for pupils to be enrolled as they discharge their duties in the area of monitoring and supervision to enhance academic excellence.
- Teachers must try their possible best to encourage students to pursue programs to enrich their careers, especially in the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
- .Heads of educational institutions must exercise professionalism in their mandates.
- The content of Social Studies shall be upgraded to be more of history, geography and general knowledge.
- Learners with reading challenges should be given special attention rather than compounding all the subjects for them to learn.
- Our World and Our People (OWOP) will soon be scrapped off because of repetition of some contents from Religious and Moral Education.
- A proposal has been tabled for non- GALOP beneficiary schools to also receive learning grants across the country by the close of next year.
- .Transfer grants for qualified teachers is ready for payment.
- There shall be a supply of smart boards for every Basic School.
- The preparation to distribute laptops to the primary school teachers is in progress, as the ministry engages the company in question.
- Each student in the public Senior High Schools shall be given one laptop.
- Science students in the Senior High Schools shall be exempted to study integrated science and core mathematics and rather replaced with French or any other subjects that will make them globally competitive.
- Candidates in Ashanti Region is expected to excel in the next National Standardized Test as other Regions are doing extremely well. (NOTE: The Minister did not mention the date for writing the test.)
- National Council for Curriculum Assessment is expected to provide a vivid report to every district about the outcome of NST.
- Among all the regions in Ghana, Northern Region delivered up to expectations of the outcome of NST.
- There shall be a quarterly magazine to give an update of educational issues.
- Ghana Learning Channel shall soon be out (MOE TV).
- A computer program shall be created to keep in track of the conduct of students from the Junior High School to the Senior High School and if a student has a bad track record, they shall be denied admission by any tertiary institution in the country.
- A countless school projects beyond imagination which have been completed from the Junior High Schools to the Senior High Schools were displayed on a projector.