The Cape Coast Metro Director of the Ghana Education Service, Mad. Dorcas Brenda Asare has reiterated the need to achieve improved Students Learning Outcomes within Basic Schools in Cape Coast.
This is in line with the falling results standards the metropolis has over the years continuously witnessed in the Basic Education School Certificate Examination (BECE).
Mad. Brenda Asare believes that to curtail the situation, heads of Basic Schools need to be well equipped as they are the ones at the center of teaching and learning.
“This is not our lot as a metropolis and therefore we need to step up activities that will make us perform…and the need for training of headteachers is paramount.” She emphasized.
She was speaking exclusively to ATL FM NEWS at the sidelines of a three-day Leadership Training Workshop for Basic School heads of the Cape Coast Metropolitan Educational Directorate.
The workshop which was held at the University of Cape Coast was organized in partnership with the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration at the University of Cape Coast, IEPA, and aimed at building the capacity of Heads of Basic School in the area of Leadership.
Director General of IEPA, Dr. Michael Boakye Yiadom on his part said the workshop facilitated by the institute is aimed at reminding school heads of their role in instructional leadership and the need to find innovative ways of teaching students in the midst of limited teaching resources in most basic schools in the country.
He said it is their hope that the heads learn and strengthen their capacity in innovative ways and motivate their staff and the students adding that for quality education to be achieved, teaching and learning should be efficient.
Source: Herty Ann Hawkson/ATLFMNEWS
