Take your time to teach – Hasan Mickail

Hasan Mickail, 2014 overall Best West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) candidate in West Africa,has observed that most teachers are not able to get the best out of their students because they sometimes concentrate on the brilliant students at the expense of the less bright ones due to the wrong assumption that all the students are the same.

“All students are not the same, when they are teaching they should take their time to teach. If you look at the face of the brilliant students in class, you will teach only that person and leave the rest so they have to take their time and teach so that they can get the best out of every student”.

Master Mickail disclosed this in an exclusive interview with a GBC Sunrise FM correspondent on the sidelines of this year’s National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) Competition in Accra.

The former Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) student and 2014 NSMQ finalist also identified distracted learning as the bane of most students. He, therefore, advised students against combining learning with other activities in order to enable effective learning to take place.

“Some students will be learning and at the same time listening to champion’s league match or they will be learning and at the same time be on the social media doing Whatsapp and those things. When you are learning focus on the learning and finish with it before you do any other things”, he said.

“Don’t combine learning with other things”, he added.

Hasan, who said he started serious learning right from form one and did most of his learning during vacations, encouraged SHS students to take their studies serious because the SHS can either make or unmake them.