It is a chance to talk about challenges in education- Educationist take on teacher’s day.

An educationist, called Alhaji Mohammed Haroon Cambodia, says  observation  of Teachers  Day  is  a chance to talk about the challenges in  the  education  sector and problems regarding teachers.

He spoke with  the media and noted that World Teachers Day(Teachers Prize, in Ghana) is marked to honour teachers yearly at  symposium  with  Education Minister, Teacher  unions,  other  interests  groups  and  stakeholders  of education  which  helps  in  voicing  out challenges in the teaching profession but it wasn’t so previously.

According  to  Cambodia, it’s  now  a  bit better as  compared  to  the  past  where they  only  get up one day and choose the best  teacher  and give him or her a prize, he added that he likes it this way because they now take into consideration a lot of issues before somebody will be described as a best teacher stressing that teaching is a profession and in every profession the person  who  claims  to  be professional  should  follow  certain dogma, code of conduct and go through the nitty-gritties  of  the  teaching profession.

He  asserted  that  the  teaching profession in  Ghana  is  good  but  what we need to know is that every good teacher must have compassion or love for teaching and whether they are motivated externally or not they will be internally  motivated which will propel them  to put in their best in the interest of the Ghanaian child.

He added that impassionate teachers are those who like absenting themselves from school and would not treat the children as their own but will manhandle the children under their care which is unprofessional and every teacher must know this, he opined.

Advising  all  teachers  in  Ghana, he pointed  out  that  whether  Teachers  Day or no Teachers Day, they  are  still teachers  therefore, they should  take it as their  chosen profession because each of them chose to be teacher and must behave accordingly.

In furtherance, he bemoaned the small car prize as best teacher award and beseeched cooperate bodies to make changes and provide privileged vehicles to the awardees next time looking at the kind of plush cars they donate for winners of Miss Ghana and Miss Malika while urging the cooperate bodies which mostly donate during such events to respect teaching and give proper awards to teachers who happens to win those prizes.

Source:ghanapublisher.com