Textbooks not most important in teaching – NAPO to Minority

Textbooks not most important in teaching by the Education Minister Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh  has angered alot of stakeholders in education and the general public.

The outcome of a dentist as education minister is visible in the Ministry of Education a commentator said. Teachers, countless educationist and the general public are finding it difficult to comprehend why the Minister of Education is still at post. 

The latest pronouncements of Education Minister Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh  that Textbooks are not most important in teaching has according to the teaming teacher in Ghana revealed that the minister of education does not know anything about education no matter what he thinks he knows.

Education Minister Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has said providing teachers with textbook without the needed teacher motivation is a misplaced priority call by the opposition.

I decided to school my self to first understand motivation. To motivate means to stimulate the actions of others to accomplish set goals and objectives. In education, the availability of needed resources especially quality and relevant text books is key to enabling teachers deliver on the job and be motivated. 

How come a minister with a health background thinks teachers do not need text books? The truth is that, health experts don’t need to very often consult their text books but teachers and learners need it. 

The minister’s view-point that teachers in Ghana do not need textbook because that is not a tool for teaching in school by teachers but the curriculum is laughable. How many teachers did our minister of education contacted to come out with such a belief which is far from the truth? 

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The minister has no knowledge about methodology .He should go to any training college and a methodology tutor will teach him the importance of the textbooks inline the syllabus and the teacher guide.

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Those of us who are teachers understand this statement from the minister, if you have all the textbooks and you are not motivated would you like to remain in the classroom and teach?

This shows that he has no knowledge in teaching and learning. He is only enjoying from the hard work of his deputy.

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I am sorry the technocrats in the education sector in Ghana are silent in the manner reforms and reviews in the pre-tertiary level are being implemented.

From all indications, Textbooks not most important in teaching did not go down well with the people of Ghana.

Some are of the view that Curriculum review can’t appropriately be without the accompanying documents are not attached.

Policies have accompanying regulations that direct operational activities.From study,curriculum materials include syllabus , textbooks,pupils books and other related topics approved by the MOE/GES and published by authorized companies. The MOE/GES have to the best of my knowledge have not approved any book of study for schools from KG to the primary.l hope the MOE/GES will sit up.

Can’t we really analyse this issue beyond sentiments? He used the word ” most”. He never said they’re not important. if textbooks not most important in teaching, what is another quized rather angry.

Napo. You are a dentist but not a teacher. You have never been to any teacher training college so lying there. Admit your faults and shut up. You dentist what do you know about teaching.

NAPO has messed the education system in this country, the guy has no idea what education is all about, I think he is a mechanic. Pick and act ministers are ruling the country

If a misled President appoints a minister, he will surely mislead his ministry. Napo is a disgrace to GH education. He is the biggest disaster to hit the education ministry.

Ghanaians have now realized why Trainees Teachers were calling the immediate sack of that Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh.

He is highly incompetent and ignorant about his field of work. How should a President appoint a person holding Dentist Degree to control and manage the Education in the country

Super incompetent Napo. Wabon paaaaaa. Is that why you are sending our kids to cafe for no good reasons. Where did you school at all and who put that idea into your head.

I don’t think this minister understand the meaning of teaching and education. No wonder sleeping government at meeting. Food and beverage education minister.

In fact I’m highly disappointed in this government, why can the sack this man from the office

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The government should inform teachers that it was ill prepared for the change in curriculum and that, its timing was wrong rather than try to justify the reasons why government has not supplied text books to schools for effective teaching and learning.

Every level of education has required text books recommended for teachers and students. Is my minister of education saying, his lecturers and teachers while he was in school never used recommended text books?

He said, “every teacher will tell you, through teacher training, no class from KG to University uses the textbook to teach. If textbooks were ones that teachers will teach from, why did we send monitors and supervisors and head teacher around to monitor and mark teachers by the lesson plans.”

Seemingly directing a message at the opposition, he said “If your authorities will insist on monitoring teachers and that they should write on that supervisors will come and read their lesson plans, it means it is not a textbook that is needed. We are also all witnesses to a fact that no matter the textbook that you use, for some topics, another textbook will be better than the textbook you use.”