I perfectly agree with you in that we need a total reform of our educational system in Ghana.
Teachers or instructors fail to engage their students in the learning process. Besides that they need to find out out from their s ... read full comment
I perfectly agree with you in that we need a total reform of our educational system in Ghana.
Teachers or instructors fail to engage their students in the learning process. Besides that they need to find out out from their students if they even grasp what is being taught. SO in my view they have no reason to cane children who don't get things right in the classroom. Every child has a different style of learning so we need to educate or educators on these new ways of learning. Ghana needs to move away from the teaching paradigm to the new Learning Paradigm where courses are designed with the focus on the learner. In other words learning is student-centred not instructor led.
MARCUS AMPADU 7 years ago
Ms. Ohrt's has written an article that certainly should have elicited a multitude of responses, but alas, all we got was a lone feedback that I perfectly agree with, that Ghana needs to rethink & redefine its educational syst ... read full comment
Ms. Ohrt's has written an article that certainly should have elicited a multitude of responses, but alas, all we got was a lone feedback that I perfectly agree with, that Ghana needs to rethink & redefine its educational system to upgrade it to 21st. century standard.
We need to restructure the GES, by decentralizing the administration, retraining of teachers, revising of curricula to inject science, technology,engineering, mathematics, innovations, communications; emphasize critical thinking & making teaching fun with the introduction of groups working together to solve problems in their communities.
Assessments have to be authentic - replacing BECE & WASSCE with meaning testing.
There's a need to establish charter schools in Ghana. Where parents, teachers & community members get together to create their own schools.
Kweku Donsuro 7 years ago
My 18 year daughter told me that for the African child, his or her brain is located at his/her buttocks so you have to whip it into action. You boobed when you wrote 1500s which implies anything like 1557 etc. 15th Century me ... read full comment
My 18 year daughter told me that for the African child, his or her brain is located at his/her buttocks so you have to whip it into action. You boobed when you wrote 1500s which implies anything like 1557 etc. 15th Century means from 1400 to 1499 and it is not the same if you write 1500s. The Portuguese landed at Elmina(La Mina or the mine in 1472 with the likes of Ferdinald Gomez, Pedro d'Escobar, Diego d'Azambuja, Bartholomew Diaz etc) with Nana Kwamena Ansah or Caramansa as they called him). Times have changed and moved on in this millennium so your article is superfluous and unnecessary. We need to encourage our children to think outside the box but there is the western culture and the African culture at crossroads. Need we debunk and jettison our rich culture and take western culture, swallowing it hook, line, and sinker, or lock, stock, and barrel? Don't pontificate what you do not know. We shall guard our culture jealously and not substitute it with alien foreign culture.
Abdallah Smith 7 years ago
First of all this is a quite brilliant and succinct argument about why we need to change our education system. But even further, on the topic of colonization and its link to this teacher and student relationship - i think the ... read full comment
First of all this is a quite brilliant and succinct argument about why we need to change our education system. But even further, on the topic of colonization and its link to this teacher and student relationship - i think there are striking similarities about how our political/economic leaders also just 'chew and pour' what developed nations deem as development. Instead we need our leaders to go through a sort of educational reform so that we crucially examine and reflect our roles and what development means for us, and not just some imposition of foreign ideology.
I perfectly agree with you in that we need a total reform of our educational system in Ghana.
Teachers or instructors fail to engage their students in the learning process. Besides that they need to find out out from their s ...
read full comment
Ms. Ohrt's has written an article that certainly should have elicited a multitude of responses, but alas, all we got was a lone feedback that I perfectly agree with, that Ghana needs to rethink & redefine its educational syst ...
read full comment
My 18 year daughter told me that for the African child, his or her brain is located at his/her buttocks so you have to whip it into action. You boobed when you wrote 1500s which implies anything like 1557 etc. 15th Century me ...
read full comment
First of all this is a quite brilliant and succinct argument about why we need to change our education system. But even further, on the topic of colonization and its link to this teacher and student relationship - i think the ...
read full comment