A 3-day Instructional Leadership Training Workshop has been organised for 545 Basic School teachers and head teachers in Obuasi.
The programme, which was solely sponsored by AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi Mine, dwelt mainly on jolly phonics and reading skills to enhance the capacity of the teachers to make them more effective in the classroom.
It also formed part of AngloGold Ashanti’s 10-year Socio Economic Development Plan (SEDP) to organise bi-annual Instructional Leadership Training for Basic School teachers in its catchment area.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of the programme, Mr. Edmund Oduro Agyei, stakeholder and Land Management Superintendent of the company, who stood in for the Senior Sustainability Manager, applauded the teachers for their commitment to learning new ways of instructional teaching.
“As we draw the curtain of the training workshop down, do reflect on the knowledge and strategies you have gained over the period. Remember you are the leaders in your classroom and your influence extends far beyond the four walls. Your commitment to instructional teaching will undoubtedly have a profound impact on your student’s academic growth and overall development,” he said.
Mr. Oduro Agyei mentioned that apart from the Instructional Leadership Training programme, the company was currently constructing a 9-unit state-of-the-art classroom block for Sanso, a suburb of Obuasi.
He said AngloGold Ashanti had also commenced arrangements towards constructing an 18-unit classroom block at Anyinam this year, while arrangements have also been completed towards constructing a Centre of Excellence for Robotic Training at the Obuasi Secondary Technical School.
The Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, Mr. George Alfred Koomson, on behalf of both the Obuasi East and Obuasi Municipal Education Directorates, expressed his profound appreciation to AngloGold Ashanti for the immense support it had given towards the improvement of education in Obuasi.
He noted that the workshop had equipped the teachers with the needed skills to augment what they knew already to help find lasting solutions to the learner’s inability to read and comprehend the texts they read.
He called on AngloGold Ashanti to endeavour to sponsor another workshop on the teaching of reading of Ghanaian language, as research had shown that basic knowledge in the reading of Ghanaian language made the transition to English Language very easy.
Ms Joycelyn Bediako, one of the facilitators, on behalf of her colleagues, thanked the organisers of the programme for making it possible for them to facilitate the entire workshop.
She called on the teachers to go back to their various schools and impart what they had learned to their pupils and students.
From Frederick Danso Abeam
