TEACHERS UPGRADE SKILLS IN ICT

TEACHERS UPGRADE SKILLS IN ICT

The Ghana Investment Fund electronic Communication, in collaboration with the Wassa East District Assembly, has organized a two-week workshop on Information and Communication Technology, for 26 basic school teachers in the district, to build their capacities to teach the subject in their schools.

They were taken through such topics as basics of computer, computer security and privacy, digital lifestyles, Microsoft word, excel, power point and basic internet and internet tools.

The teachers came from the Daboase D/A, St. Martin’s, Kakokrom, SIPL TI Ahmadiyya, Kwame Yaw Anglican, Aboaboso and Adeankyewodamu Basic Schools.

The manager of the communication and Information Centre, Mr. Sampson Abugah, in an interview with journalists at Daboase last week, stated that, the workshop was designed to help the teachers to develop interest in the teaching of ICT, as well a train other teachers in the subject.

He disclosed that since ICT became an examinable subject in the Basic Education Certificate Examination in 2009, the district placed first in it in 2011 and second in the Western Region in 2012, and hoped the record would be maintained in the ensuring years.

Speaking at the closing ceremony, the District Coordinating Director, Mr. Kojo De Graft Johnson, asked the participants not to indulge in fraudulent activities with the computer.

“If you fail to put this course into good use, then the whole idea of the training would be defeated, “  he stressed.

“We know, as teachers, you will impart the knowledge to your pupils and enhance the study of ICT in this district, “  He added.

District Coordinating Director, Mr. Kojo De Graft Johnson  Middle front row