The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has urged political parties to promote teacher welfare in their education policy and to go above and beyond their campaign pledges.
According to NAGRAT, demotivation and unfavourable working circumstances have resulted from successive governments’ emphasis on assisting kids at the expense of instructors.
Issues include inadequate facilities for teaching and learning, late payment of allowances, and lack of accommodations for teachers in rural locations are all ignored, according to NAGRAT.
Atindana Baba Joseph, the Ashanti Regional Secretary of the group, expressed anger that political parties’ policies consistently prioritise pupils over the teachers who carry them out.
NAGRAT urges political parties to prioritize teachers in improving social programs, housing laws, and educational infrastructure.
They also want the Free SHS policy improved, not cancelled, saying, “For political parties, we have heard what he promised and what makes us so angry is that always the policies are geared towards the students. How to make the students something, not the ones who are going to implement those policies, that has been our worry.
“For example, we were given TM1, laptops, that the memory gig is just 2.5, whereas those for the students, the memory gig is higher.”
“So, what we are saying, we have heard both parties, we have heard both parties and what they said, but what we are saying is that make the teacher the pivotal element in promoting and enhancing education.
“Our land and housing policy, we want to see it up. Any other facility that will enhance the teacher, we want the curricula, we want it to be fastened. The Free SHS, we want it at least to be improved.”
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“We are not interested in their new definition of improved mean cancellation; we are not interested in that. We are born to teach, whoever comes to power, we will teach. However, if you come and enhance our welfare, the package, that makes us more interested in the teaching and every teacher motivated will teach you to the best of his ability and the vice versa is true.”
Speaking during the opening of NAGRAT’s 25th anniversary celebrations in Kumasi, Dr. Christian Addai-Poku, the registrar of the National Teaching Council, supported the implementation of the Teacher Licensure Examination.
He urged policymakers to interact with technocrats in order to gain a deeper comprehension of these kinds of educational initiatives.
Source: Citinewsroom
