From Emmanuel Modey, Ho
MR Joseph Amenowode, the Volta Regional Minister, has advised the Ghana Education Service (GES) to get the public sector involved in the running of their Best Teacher Award programmes to be able to lay hands on enticing awards for deserving teachers.
Mr Amenowode said when the appropriate approaches were made to the public, the right responses would be forthcoming.
“Everybody, no matter his standing in society, was once taught by a teacher,” the Regional Minister said.
Mr Amenowode was addressing the various District Directors of Education during a dinner dance he held for them to close a national workshop at Ho in the Volta Region.
He noted that when this was done, the award scheme would be broadened to benefit more teachers who are doing their best to put Ghana where it is.
“If we leave it 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 go back to their various secretariats to implement the skills and knowledge they have acquired at the workshop to improve education.
“You are the pivot around which the various interventions put up by government to revamp the educational sector will revolve so you must be seen to be putting in 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 the best of your abilities,” he said.
That, he said, did not mean they should assume dictatorship and high-handedness on the teachers by victimising them and transferring them 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 added.
Mr Amenowode commended the directors for their services so far but urged them not to relent in developing themselves for the improvement of the education sector.
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