The Nkurakan Circuit of Ghana Education service in Yilo Krobo municipality in Eastern Region is facing shortage of teachers, mybrytfmonline can confirm.
Many schools in farming communities under the circuit are reportedly lacking trained teachers due to failure of many in accepting postings to the schools over issues of accommodation and lack of basic social amaneties.
Emmanuel Dzramado, Nkurakan Zone chairman of Ghana National Association of Teachers said, the situation is affecting teaching and learning as many classes are without teachers leaving young learners stranded.
“I have 40 schools in my local and when you look at this local most of the schools are in deprived areas. The problem we are facing now is posting of new teachers . All the villages here no teachers. How can a basic school example Aketebour have only three teachers. KG to JHS have only three teachers “.
Emmanuel Dzramado appealed to government to decentralize posting of Teachere for equitable distribution.
“Government must release positings to regions and districts. Postings done at headquarters is not helping us. At first we were not having teacher deficit in the villages as compared to now. Now all the teachers that come are in the cities”.
He said this in an interview with the media during the commemoration of World Teachers’ Day celebrated annually on October 5th.
This year’s local theme was ” Adding the Voices of Teachers towards new social contract for education”.
Meanwhile the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has noted with concern, politicians failure to adequately engage teachers in policy formulation and implementation.
Kafui Kwame Kusife, Assistant Eastern Regional Secretary of GNAT said due to failure to involve teachers, policies introduced by politicians neither see the light of day or runs into problems.
According to the Association,government’s failure to widely comsult teachers in the designing and implementation of the Free Senior High School policy is has resulted in myriad of challenges confronting the policy.
He said currently,most classrooms at the Senior High School level are overcrowded with 80 to 100 students likening the classroom environment to “a market”.
Kafui Kwame Kusife continued that , the Free Senior High School Policy has brought lots of stress on teachers working without rest, however, government has failed to implement collective bargaining agreement to improve teachers condition of service.
“Teachers views should be considered and incorporated in educational policies. In Ghana, we all know that politicians have always come out with policies that are being rushed and we’ve all seen that such policies never see the light of day or inundated with lots of problems”.
“So what this day is talking about is that the teacher should be the focal point when we are designing policies for education because they are going to be the ones that are going to implement in the classrooms for the beneficiaries who are the students”.He stated
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
