{"id":313,"date":"2006-06-13T06:16:44","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T06:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2014-11-19T08:22:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T00:22:33","slug":"no-teachers-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/no-teachers-at-all-313","title":{"rendered":"No teachers at all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em class=\"textem\">Accra Daily Mail<\/em> newspaper (in Ghana) has an interesting and impassioned article from a mathematics educator who would like to see an improvement in the state of mathematics and science education.<\/p>\n<p>In \"Improving Math and Science in Our School\" [no longer available], Okyere Bonna reminds her readers that Ghana came 44th out of the 45 countries that took part in the TIMMS international mathematics survey in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Among the items in the article that caught my eye:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>national primary school gross enrollment ratio was 81.1%<\/strong> in 2003<\/li>\n<li>To improve performance, \"encourage in Ghanaian schools <strong>Take Home Tests and Group Study<\/strong> (or co-operate) learning\" rather than 100% of marks based on exams<\/li>\n<li>While some schools may be blessed with great teachers and <strong>even examiners<\/strong> as well as other key educational resources like computers and text books, some schools in the rural areas may have no qualified teachers or <strong>no teachers at all<\/strong>; neither computer nor text books.<\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Education must make syllabus available to all students and parents alike. It is only in our part of the world that <strong>the syllabus is a secret document<\/strong>. For instance I have tried in vain over 6 months to see the syllabus Ghana schools use. This is a shame to WAEC and the Ministry of Education. How do you expect our students to pass when they do not know what is expected of them?<\/li>\n<li>Ghana's parliament must pass a law to make it mandatory for <strong>a library<\/strong> to be built for every community with a population of 10,000 or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow - I wish you well, Ghana. How can we help?<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Daily Mail newspaper (in Ghana) has an interesting and impassioned article from a mathematics educator who would like to see an improvement in the state of mathematics and science education. In \"Improving Math and Science in Our School\" [no longer available], Okyere Bonna reminds her readers that Ghana came 44th out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}