THE Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), in collaboration with the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), has organised an in-service workshop for selected teachers in the Ashanti Region.
The workshop was aimed at building the capacity of the participants in English, Mathematics, Science, French and Basic Design and Technology.
In all, about 202 teachers selected from the primary, junior and senior high schools participated in the seminar to make them more proficient in their subject areas as a way of raising academic standard in the region.
The programme will be organised in all regional capitals to offer teachers more room to expand their horizon in their subject areas.
Addressing the participants at the closing ceremony, the Deputy General Secretary of GNAT, Mr John Nyoagbe, said it was important for the planners in educational programmes to provide a curriculum that would make the youth assert themselves and rub shoulders with the best in terms of entrepreneurship, engineering, medicine and other modern pursuits.
He also urged the government and all stakeholders in the education sector to develop policies to reflect the development needs of the country.
Mr Nyoagbe stated that the country had over relied on educational policies which were prototype of the Western advanced economies, and said such policies were likely to create socio-economic problems for the country.
He said it was important for Ghana to draw lessons from both the developed world and the emerging economies of East and South-east Asia and adapt them to our circumstances.
“You should devise means that will attract and retain the best and committed persons to the teaching profession”. Mr Nyoagbe commended the CTF for its conscious efforts to support the GNAT to build the capacity of teachers in the country.
He urged the beneficiary teachers to share the knowledge and skills they had acquired with their colleagues who were not fortunate to benefit from the workshop.
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