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What should be students and teachers role in meeting the challenges of quality education?
A presentation made at the 2nd Speech and Prize Giving Day Celebration of the Apeguso SHS, E.R., on Saturday, 20th October 2012 by Prof. D. K. Mereku, Former Dean of Science Education, University of Education, Winneba.
The aim of secondary education is to develop well-rounded and engaged citizens who will build more cohesive and participatory societies. Even though secondary education had made more people to progress to tertiary education than ever before in Ghana, the majority of the products of our educational system cannot be said to have developed most of the 21st century attributes required to make them well-rounded and engaged citizens.
Therefore just as the political parties had begun, the Ministry of Education should begin to plan to pursue policies that will ensure the removal of inefficiencies in the system to assure quality of basic education, and make senior secondary education progressively universal for all.
In order to assure quality in our secondary education system, less endowed senior high schools (LESHS) should not be made carbon copies of the highly selective well endowed senior high schools (WESHS) which emphasise academic programmes. In this regard, Heads of LESHS can lead in changing the emphasis in programmes in their schools by planning strategically to do so. Finally, it is important for students to understand that the competencies they require to be successful socially and in future go beyond knowledge (i.e. understanding and remembering stuff) to include desirable 21st century attributes; SHS teachers and students should therefore be made to read more about the roles they can play in school to become well rounded people from the internet.
Tags: educaion, education, quality, rounded, secondary, universal, well
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Permalink Reply by Ms.Dalla Mae Isaac Matlock on -
http://www.tojet.net/articles/v9i3/938.pdf...
THE PERCEPTIONS OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS, AND EDUCATIONAL
OFFICERS IN GHANA ON THE ROLE OF COMPUTER AND THE TEACHER IN
PROMOTING THE FIRST FIVE PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUCTION
*Mayflower Teachers and Students http://www.mayflower.edu.gh/
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Permalink Reply by Domingo Torres on -
In as much as today's society lives in a financially competitive existence, it is quantitative economics that motivates most students to select their careers. Everyone wants to afford to enjoy the comforts of modern technology. Hence not all students though they select by such nature make it in that their chosen fields, which is not only a waste of their time and resources, but a great lost to its nation.
However I believe that every single person should have a opportunity to free education made available to everyone who chooses and are capable of intellectually sustaining different and higher levels of its criteria. In such a society intellectual growth is encouraged thus selected amongst it peers as the creme of the crop and thus moves its nation rapidly forward and in even greater advances than its capitalist counter part. Nevertheless there has to always be a rewarding motivator towards the self to be resolved and move in such a direction. Tony aka DJ Sunday Towers God's DJ.
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Permalink Reply by Godfred Annum on -
Teachers should try to their possible best to advice students of what to each time they take their books to read. Students should try their best to help each other in class to help both teachers and students to share a lot of ideas in class.
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Permalink Reply by Godfred Annum on
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learning in groups also helps students to have new ideas in solving questions
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Permalink Reply by Domingo Torres on
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Godfred Annum said:learning in groups also helps students to have new ideas in solving questions
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Permalink Reply by Domingo Torres on
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I agreed that the collective is good towards solving problems. However it is the responsibility of each individual student to take up the time for themselves and possibly with the help of another classmate to learn the subject matter, for there if there is a weak link in the chain the links within the collective may fall apart. Nevertheless it is also the responsibility of the school master to make the effort to reach and help that weak link to move a long with the rest of the class in being creative and interesting to all students rather than castigate and embarrass the weak student. There many personal problems apart from school that affect a students learning ability, hence a student at lower grades should be made to learn how to focus and concentrate away from distractions that have nothing to do with the subject matter being taught. I personally think that all student from minor grades should be taught memory concourses, for everyone assumes that everyone else can remember the same as another, This is not true even though we all have the capacity to learn and remember, but not all can do this efficiently as it should be. We must be taught how to remember by association and other methods that have been proven to work. Tony aka DJ Sunday Towers
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