Time to reduce the Stress

Many schools are trying hard and increasing workload of teachers with the hope that it will increase performance.

This will only increase rote learning and memorization of facts. It will also results in schools passing examination and yet getting their graduate into the Unemployment line.

We should not allow examination to be the only yardstick for success or teacher performance.
Every year, SPAM is organised in schools that did not perform in the Examinations. Government pride itself for doing better that its predecessor in education when the examination results is better as compared to the previous year's.

Passing Examination is not the main aim of Education.

Teachers and school heads do everything humanly possible,  and even impossible just to make their students pass an external examinations. But, do we blame them? No.  I don't think so.  We have made the system that way.

Schools lack the necessary materials for teaching and learning and yet, teachers are pressurized to produce better examination results.

The sooner you, me, parents and indeed government realises that education is not synonymous with passing an examination,  the better it will be for all of us.

Teachers should not be coerced into bringing out examination experts and passers.

So the next PTA Meeting, SMC Meeting and SPAM in our schools and communities should not focus solely on the examination results.

We should stop labelling some schools and teachers as non performing schools or teachers just because their students did not pass an examination. Schools should be allowed to develop the human faculty. Teachers should be allowed to mould the next generation of leaders.

The next generation would not depend on examination results to be employed.  High GPAs are no longer the qualification for employment.

Teachers should be allowed to focus on developing innovative, resourceful, resilient, creative and highly skilled individuals, for the future.

Examination is just another waste of time in the developments of the child.
Many dreams have been shuttered due to failure in an examination.  We should not continue this way.
Why should we continue ripping our country with the best individuals just because they failed in an examination.

Why do we forced every child in Ghana to study Mathematics,  Integrated Science,  Social Studies and English Language? Why? Why should you get a certain grade before pursuing a particular occupation. Why should we forced our children at the universities and colleges to learn subjects and concepts they may never used in real world? Why should we force every child in the Primary School to memorize the "Times Table" or multiplication table? What crime have the children done?
We need total shift in our mindset.

Schools should be resourced with enough and adequate materials to make teaching and learning activity based.

This is what I believe would save the next generation.






By
Mohammed Aminu Mohammed.
(Trainer, Coach, Educationist, School Administrator)
(Teacher, Gomoa West)
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