Mr Zakari Bukari Anaba, Tano South District Chief Executive (DCE), has called on district/municipal education directors in Brong-Ahafo Region to enforce the School Performance Appraisal Meetings (SPAM) to put teachers on their toes for effective teaching and learning.
Mr Anaba said since the SPAM involved target setting, teachers would be more serious in their classroom work to produce good results.
The DCE said this at a conference of Brong-Ahafo District/Municipal Education Directors at Bechem on Thursday.
He reiterated the Government’s position to provide the needed infrastructure as well as teaching and learning materials to improve education in the country.
Mr Anaba made it clear that at this time of stock taking, the directors must try to identify their shortfalls so they could find suitable solutions to help move education forward in the region.
Mrs Mary Gyimah, Tano South District Education Director, appealed to the directors to sharpen their leadership skills to improve upon education in their respective areas.
She lamented the abysmal performances of some schools in the region as reflected in the results of candidates of the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) in recent years and therefore called on the directors to adopt effective strategies to avert the poor performances.
Mr Andrews Adjei Yeboah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano South, told the directors that since the success or failure of any establishment they represented directly fell on them, there was the need to re-examine themselves and scale-up their supervisory roles to enhance teaching and learning in the region.
Nana Fosu-Gyeabour Akoto II, Omanhene of Bechem Traditional Area, who presided, suggested that since children learnt better through their local languages, there was the need for teachers to use the local languages as the medium of instruction while the English language remained a subject.
The Omanhene recalled that in the past, when teachers were being paid based on the good examination results of their pupils, most of the teachers performed creditably and cautioned non-performing teachers in basic schools in the region to “sit up”.