Teachers Asked To Accept Postings To Rural Areas

Accra, Aug 13, - Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, today appealed to home economics teachers to accept postings and transfers to rural areas where they are most needed. He said inequalities in the distribution of qualified teachers to rural areas is causing inadequacies and imbalances in the delivery of education in those areas, hence the recent staff rationalisation exercise. ''I hope home economics teachers, identified to be in excess in their institutions would happily accept postings and transfers to help these rural students who need your subject most,'' he said. Mr Tettey-Enyo made the appeal when he opened a three-day ''Needs Assessment'' workshop for senior secondary school home economics teachers in Accra. The workshop, which is the second phase of a collaborative project between the Ghana Home Economics Association (GHEA) and the Saskatoon branch of the Association of Saskatchewan Home Economists of Canada, is being sponsored by the Canadian International Development Association (CIDA). About 40 teachers from the 10 regions are participating in the workshop which is aimed, among others, to strengthen the profession and work of home economics teachers to make them better equipped to help families improve their quality of life. He said the successful provision of quality education depends not only on good policies and provision of the necessary materials but more importantly on the professional competence of the teacher. Participants should therefore use the workshop to research and develop appropriate instructional strategies for effective teaching and learning of the subject.