Teachers urged to show commitment to their jobs

Keta, Nov. 20, GNA – Teachers have been urged to sacrifice a lot more for their students by being caring and committed to the job as others before them did to educate them.      Mrs. Elizabeth Kudjawu, Volta Regional Guidance and Counselling and Special Education Unit Officer, Ghana Education Service (GES) was addressing a day’s workshop on guidance and counselling for basic school heads and school-based guidance and counselling coordinators in the Keta Municipality in Keta.     She said some teachers could be held responsible for poor student performance and the premature termination of education by some students.      “Commitment and the needed sacrifice in the job is becoming worrying on the part of some teachers ,who end up collecting salaries they do not deserve,”, Mrs Kudjawu stated.      She said distance education programmes had become excuses for some teachers to refuse to teach.     Mrs. Kudjawu urged teachers, parents and students to be show friendliness in their dealings with pupils.       She said bullying, insults, sexual harassment and stigmatization made the school environment unfriendly for the child.     Mrs Kudjawu advised teachers, especially female teachers to dress well and that parents should also show commitment to the welfare of their children.     The workshop also discussed drug abuse, examination malpractices, homosexuality and occultism among the children.   Mr. Nathaniel Ankutse, Regional Special Needs Child Officer, urged counsellors to always reflect high moral conduct during counselling.   GNA... Read Full Story