DATE: 21ST AUGUST, 2017
VENUE: KOMENDA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AUDITORIUM
Mr. Chairman,
Nananom, Staff of T-TEL Distinguished Guests, all protocol duly observed,
Ladies and Gentlemen. I would like to cease this wonderful opportunity to thank
all dignitaries and delegates herein present for living from the comfort of
your homes to this august function.
Todd Stocker
once said “A confident leader is like a duck. Above a water, he is calm and
poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.” We never allowed our circumstances to
overtake us but rather worked assiduously to maintain the status quo of TTAG
WEC Sector. We have tried our utmost best and now we need massive assistance
from our stakeholders.
Mr.
Chairman, We unanimously opted for the theme “Mobilising for Ghana’s Future;
The need for practical Oriented Teacher Education”.We did so because the
educational system in Ghana is too bookish and filled with theories which make
graduates suffer on the field. It is very disheartening to go to a whole
college of education without a proper science laboratory let alone to be
furnished with the necessary instruments for practicals.
Aristotle
once said “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education”.
Education over the years in Ghana has been distorted to take misshapen qualities
that in turns affect the positive impact intended, due to the consistent change
of government, governance and policies. In a situation where a nation wants to
develop its statutory functions, it is always possible to link both bookish and
technical knowhow to ensure effective deployment of efficiency to aid a
remarkable development.
Today in
Ghana, it is believed that, the educational standard serves as a comedy ground
for politicians. Every new government familiarizes itself through the sneaking
pores of the Education sector. We thank Transforming Teacher Education and
Learning (T-TEL) for assisting colleges of education to concentrate much on practical’s
and increasing the pedagogical content knowledge of teacher trainees across the
length and breadth in our country Ghana.
Mr Chairman,
permit me to inquire from stakeholders, the reason that create a conducive
environment for the problems of teacher trainees to persistently inflate
unespectedly. In our just ended examination, one of the courses that bares the
course code FDC 311 (English Language Studies) to speak for or against the
recent dismissal of students for non-performance in the colleges of education.
Here, does the institute mean that , taking critical insight of the dismissal
of students is really a mess or it should be treated as a mere essay? I believe
that since Colleges of Education is now recognized as a tertiar y institution,
there should also be a substantial arrangement to enable the tutors at the
college level to be responsible to provide their own models/handouts and asses
their students summatively and formatively because they do not lack the
aphylactics.
Another
major challenge we are foreseeing is the postings where trainees are misplaced.
Why should a newly trained teacher who cannot speak the native language of a
place be posted to that particular environment? It is very disheartening when a
newly trained teacher from Ashanti Region is posted to Northern Region and will
be made to teach at class two, how he/she can teach for the pupils to grasp the
concepts well. All these things are happening meanwhile the language policy in
Ghana stipulates that local language should be used to teach at the lower
primary.
Finally, Mr.
Chairman all protocol duly observed, it will all the time be appropriate for
our policy makers to be so tactical to come down to the grassroots’ to have
effective and dependable research for progressing than to have a shallow
research for retrogressing. It is about time our policy makers focus more on
our institutions to ensure supparasitation of conditions for teaching and
learning. Government nowadays should consider how much is too much, how far is
too far to help build some stability in the Education sector.
LONG
LIVE TTAG WEC SECTOR!!!
LONG
LIVE GHANA!!!
Thank you.
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