THE Volta Regional Minister, Mr Joseph Amenowode, has advised the Ghana Education Service (GES) to involve the private sector in the organisation of the best teacher award programmes in order to attract enticing awards for deserving teachers.
Mr Amenowode said if the appropriate approaches were made to the public, the GES might receive the right responses.
“Everybody, no matter his standing in society, was once taught by a teacher,” the regional minister said.
Mr Amenowode was addressing district directors of education at a dinner he organised for them to close their week-long workshop at Ho in the Volta Region.
He noted that if this was done, the awards scheme would be broadened to benefit more teachers who were doing their best to put Ghana where it was.
“If we leave the organisation of the teachers awards entirely to the government, the scheme would not be sustainable due to the limited resources available,” he said.
The regional minister urged the directors to utilise the skills and knowledge they had acquired at the workshop in their various directorates and help to improve the standard of education in the country.
“You are the pivot around which the various government interventions to revamp the educational sector will revolve so you must be seen to be doing your best wherever you are”, he said.
“Our teachers are in your hands, you should ensure that they always do their work well to raise the standard of education by performing to best of their abilities,” he added.
That, he said, did not mean they should become dictators and high-handed, victimise and transfer teachers to inaccessible places on very flimsy excuses.
“You should at all times project yourselves as role models to your teachers and the society at large”, he advised.
Mr Amenowode commended the directors for their services so far and urged them not to relent in developing themselves for the betterment of the educational sector.
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