They have been a call by some teachers that the management of the Ghana Education Service should come out to declare their stance on whether Teachers should write lesson notes or not because their district Directors of Education are forcing them to write lesson notes in textbooks after the distribution of the one teacher one laptop.
The Minister of Education Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum earlier this year 2022 told the general public that the Ghana Education Service and the TVET are all part of the Ministry of Education and for that matter cannot take a sole decision on their own in this current Educational Reforms. This information was made known when parents, guardians, and students were asking the management of the Ghana Education Service to bring out the academic calendar for the 2022 year.
The Director-General of Ghana Education prof. Opoku Amankwa came out on the media and said the ministry of Education has constituted a Committee to come out with a proposed calendar for all basic schools in the country.
Most people ruined insult on the Director-General of Ghana Education Service. What people didn’t understand is the Ghana Education Service does not have the overall authority to take decisions on basic schools solely. For GES to decide on this new educational reform, it has to be a collective decision of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service.
So if the ministry of Education has officially spoken on several media platforms that teachers will not write lesson notes in notebooks that mean management of the Ghana Education Service cannot resist that directive given by the Ministry of Education.
Directors of Education cannot be putting pressure on teachers to still copy lesson notes in notebooks. It is outmoded and teachers should be allowed to enjoy the digital world. Such intimidation by Directors of Education on teachers should be stopped immediately.
