Teacher michael's blog

      The Ghana Education Service (GES), in 2017 officially banned all forms of corporal punishment meted out to children in schools in Ghana as part of efforts aimed at promoting a safer and more protective learning environment for children. The introduction of toolkit by The Guidance and Counseling Unit offers options for the effective application of positive discipline for different forms of misbehaviour and proposes suitable proactive or reactive measures for addressing them, instead of the traditional approach, which is caning. The toolkit has classified misbehaviour into various levels. The first thing every teacher must institute to ensure discipline is the setting of classroom rules posted on notice boards as a visual reminder of expected behaviours from the students List of measures approved by GES to ensure discipline in schools: 1.              Writing Lines The child is given a sentence to w...

     The term ‘slow learner’ is frequently used to cover various groups of children otherwise referred to ‘dull’, ‘retarded’ or ‘educationally subnormal’. In the present circumstances it is used more widely to indicate the fairly large group of children whose learning is slowed down by one or more factors of which limited ability may be one A slow learner is one who learns at a slower than average rate, It is important to note that they do not have intellectual disability, but it takes them longer to understand and grasp concepts. Teaching has its ups and down, and we sometimes have ‘That one child’ that takes a little longer to grasp a concept. Some of us teachers can relate because we most likely have ‘That one child’ in our classroom. What then do we do? 1. Set realistic expectations and smaller targets. 2. They need more time, more repetition and more resources from their teacher to be successful. 3. As a teacher, do not give negative feedback to children as they...