She said they should epitomize everything that was noble and dignified.

Mrs. Oduro, who is the head teacher of the New Aboabo junior high school, said they must serve as good example to the children they were teaching. She was contributing to roundtable discussions held by the Metropolitan GNAT-LAS under the theme “Transforming societies through education, the role of the female teacher: Agenda 2030”.

It brought together 50 coordinators drawn from across all the 16 local zones in the metropolis. The programme provided the platform to review activities of the teacher association over the past year and to plan the way forward. She counseled her colleague female teachers to show total commitment and love for the job they had been doing.

Mrs. Matilda Gyamerah, a Senior Housemistress at the Kumasi Girls’ High School, asked them to do more to aid their students to uphold the values of hard work, discipline, honesty and patriotism.

They should not focus only on academic excellence but good character training.

“Children these days are increasingly exposed to crime, violence and unhealthy competition and it is our duty as teachers to help them to know the right from wrong - distinct between good and bad behavior.”

Mrs. Gyamerah spoke of the need to help particularly the girl-child to identify their potentials, motivate and support them to be retained in school. Mr. Johnson Kwaku Adu, the Metropolitan GNAT Secretary, urged female teachers to join the association and actively participate in its activities for their own good and career development.