PRESEC to provide students with modern learning skills

Accra, May 14, GNA - The Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC), is to provide the equipment and environment that would promote teaching and learning in the 21st Century. Mr Africanus Anane, Headmaster of the school said an Electronic Interactive Board, a Modern Visualiser, an Electronic slate and other modern learning aids and accessories were to be installed in the school's resources room to promote self-direction and thinking among students.

He said classrooms would also be equipped with projectors for presentations in lessons in the next academic year. "I must stress we are the only public school in Ghana that has moved out and set the tone for others to follow in the area of electronic learning - e-learning. Mr Anane announced this at the 73rd Anniversary Speech and Prize Giving Day of the school, on the theme 93Building Quality Human Resource for National Development", on Saturday. He said dedicated teachers nurture innovative potential in young people and prepare them to step into the world where an understanding of technology would help shape their success.

He said PRESEC had experienced dramatic improvement, as far as teaching was concerned, after the Academic Board completed a one week course on how to improve the academic life of students, at Winneba. "It is my fervent hope that we would see PRESEC Legon continue to set a more result-oriented pace for others to follow" he said. Mr Anane was of the view that, discipline was the bedrock of success in every human endeavour, and urged parents to help ensure that their ward rises up to the virtues of hard work, honesty, integrity, holiness and selfless devotion to duty. He assured that PRESEC would continue to produce reliable and disciplined students to help in the development of the nation. Professor Seth Danso, Fellow of Ghana Academy of Arts and Science said the achievement of students was a reflection of the teachers' effectiveness, adding that that, teachers needed refresher courses to accelerate students' success and growth. He said teachers play a key role in nation building due to the role they play in human resource capacity building. He said teachers had always been central to every education reform process around the world, adding that, teacher education should be a major concern in national policies.

He commended the Old Boys of PRESEC, especially the 1986 group, for their immense contribution to the school and charged them to keep the PRESEC light perpetually ablaze for the younger ones to follow. Reverend Hebert Anim Oppong, Clerk of the General Assembly of Presbyterian, Ghana, urged the Old Boys to lead exemplary lives and serve as mentors for the young generation. He commended the Staff of PRESEC for their high sense of duty and urged them to produce quality and valuable students for national development. 14 May 11