Teachers On Duty With Akosua Saffy

It can get overwhelming when you have to move from your comfort zone to a new unfamiliar environment to work. This is why my best friend and i from our experiences made this episode to guide you on how to prepare for your your move.

Teaching in a rural area can be an eye opening experience.Depending on the area of posting, your experience can shape you into becoming the best version of yourself or the worst. These are some of the things i have experienced and learnt staying and teaching in a rural area.

When you are a newly posted teacher, you are bound to make many mistakes, that may land you into very bad choices including debt and financial difficulties. This episode is directed towards the goal to guide you to minimize your mistakes and make sound decisions in you teaching profession.

Many teachers apply for study leave with pay without knowing the details of the requirements. Many also complain of not getting picked without knowing the actual causes. A lot can attribute to the above. There this video will explain what is expected of applicants who seek to apply for study leave with pay.

On this episode we talked about somethings that the public needs to be educated on about the teachers and the teaching profession. liberation from these ideas will uplift the teaching profession and teachers as a whole.

NACCA has gracefully relieved elective science students burdens of studying core mathematics and science in addition to their elective science subjects. this development was made last week on the 6th of February by the Director of NaCCa.

Writing of lesson notes can be a very painstaking activity sometimes. But with a little know hows and push you can get them done as fast as you can.

The 3&5 sandwich education course started in 2019, for teachers who wanted to further their careers from diploma to degree in basic or secondary education. This course is offered at both UEW and UCC.

New teachers often do not realize these mistakes because of how overwhelming it gets with all the tasks they need to do and accomplish. It's very okay to sometimes sit back reflects and thinks about how to be a better teacher by learning to undo and work on these mistakes to be better at impacting ideas and concepts.

Just as teachers are working on themselves to be better, so do we expect those we serve to do away with these stereotypes about us to help make the profession an enjoyable and reputable one in our Ghanaian society.

2023 is almost ending and just as the saying goes, " New year New habits." so these are a few behaviors teachers must out a stop to and must not enter the new years with. These behaviors if stopped will help put a better outlook on the teaching profession.

As a newly posted teacher there could be so many things you may end up feeling overwhelmed about so to make things easier and smooth in your first year of teaching professionally, here are a few things you should always take notes on before going into your classroom.

The continuous professional development are workshops organized to help teachers develop their skills in impacting knowledge and solving environmental issues in their teaching and learning. These workshops are somehow losing its value as it doesn't really target new ideas and seek to actually help teachers grow in their field.

Teacher and learning is mostly successful when we understand the needs of our learners ad children then use strategies to help them achieve their goals and expectations in learning. therefore it is paramount that we use various ways to help children learning in a healthiest ways possible.

Stephen Desu, a teacher and the founder of the Innovative Teacher Union has taken the NTC, GES and AG to court over a proposed deduction from the professional development allowance. The deductions were agreed on by the teacher unions (GNAT, NAGRAT and CCT).

Our World Our people a subject introduced into Ghanaian schools in 2019 after the change of the curriculum for all subject has been withdrawn by NaCCA due to its similarities to RME. NaCCA explains the reasons for the withdrawal.

The positive discipline toolkit introduced by GES in 2016 to tackle violent behaviors and indiscipline of children in our teaching and learning environment. The toolkit is to replace corporal punishment a more traditional approach used for correction Ghanaian schools.

What do you know about the ban on corporal punishment in Ghanaian schools? Do you agree on the ban? Do you think it will help enhance the structure of our education system? How will it fit in our cultural setting? How is it going to help the teacher in the classroom instruct and impact knowledge?

The biggest and most important stake holder in the teaching and learning fraternity are the parents. Thus they have a very big responsibility in ensuring that their wards sail through the education sea with all the necessary tools as as well as equipment needed for learning. Are parents doing their parts to ensure their wards success in education? find out as my guest and i dive into this topic.

As teachers it is expected that we maintain a certain level of energy with our learners, colleague teachers and the community as a whole.  How do we maintain this energy as we go about our daily activities with our colleague teachers, as well as our learners? join me and my guest as we go into what is expected of us during this time.