According to Dr Christian Addai-Poku, Registrar of the National Teaching Council, 44,000 of the 120, 000 teachers who wrote the Ghana Teacher Licensure Examinations in 2022 failed.
He expressed concern about the exam scores, citing the poor performance of teachers who were presumed to be imparting knowledge to children.
Dr Addai-Poku made these remarks at the Institute of Teacher Education and Development’s 2022/23 Cohort – Leading Girls’ Learning Programme town hall meeting (INTED).
The Leading Girls’ Learning Programme, which INTED has enrolled with USAID support, seeks to solve attitudes and barriers against girls in high school in an attempt to optimise their learning atmosphere.
The initiative also improves teachers’ skills and competencies in the second cycle schools in order to enhance teaching and learning results in schools.
Dr Addai-Poku stated that teachers’ expertise and aptitudes must be constantly built in order for them to flourish in their career fields.
He stressed that the continuous professional development of teachers enables them to sharpen their skills and upgrade their teaching profession.
Dr Addai-Poku said there was a need for female teachers to be encouraged to climb up the teaching ladder into second-cycle institutions, saying, their numbers at that level were not encouraging.
He indicated that out of the total population of teachers at the second cycle level, only 26 per cent were female.
“Having more female teachers at the second cycle level would enable the girls in the schools to have role models they can look up to in these female teachers,” he added.
Mr Divine Ayidzoe, Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, stated that an entrance examination for people wishing to enroll in the various Colleges of Education would be held very soon.
He mentioned that with this intervention, colleges of education would be able to attract bright students in order to improve the teaching profession in the country.
INTED’s Executive Director, Mr Kwabena Amporful, clarified that over the last decade, INTED has worked with development partners to enhance the quality of teaching and leadership practices in Senior High Schools.
He went on to say that they had provided professional development programs to over 3,500 teachers across the country in over 70 schools.
GNA
