Lawyer James Enu always sets the pace for Carlos in Tema West Constituency

 Does Carlos Ahenkorah care about Education in the Tema West Constituency?

Yao Agbenyo queries 

Our future leaders are starting their first ever external examination in their lives tomorrow but the MP has NOT been seen anywhere in the constituency. Does the Member of Parliament for the Tema West Constituency care? Does he know the value of Education? Does he know the pressure that kids face just at the mere thought of sitting an exam and what his presence alone could do for the kids in ameliorating their fears? As other Members of Parliament and Parliamentary Candidates across the country embark on encouragement tours donating Educational Materials and offering salient guidance to these kids as they face one of the toughest moments in their lives, does our MP see it? Does he follow the news? Has he got social media monitoring teams?  More importantly, HAS HE SEEN THE THOUGHTFULNESS OF LAWYER JAMES ENU, the NDC'S parliamentary candidate as he goes round the whole constituency with his team donating Educational Materials and offering words of motivation and inspiration to the kids and even giving money to schools to convey these kids to their exam centres to cut down the stress of walking long distances to go sit the exam?

Must the MP always be in the news for the wrong reasons? Must he always wait to be jerked up before he goes about his constitutional mandate? Must lawyer James Enu always set the pace for him to follow? Must the MP always wait to steal ideas from lawyer James Enu? If we don't have a functional MP, he should resign so we know we don't have a father in the Constituency. 

This is Tema, the land of the elites, Nkrumah's Tema! We cannot, and will not tolerate any dysfunctional leaderships any longer. Get to work or resign for the more competent person to take over the seat.

Would a father be at home and allow the family goat give birth while tied to a tree? Didn't the elders say that in the presence of an elder, a child's head is not allowed to droop? If we have an elder who neglects the mandates of his grey hair, let him raise his hands in despair for the younger one with empathy to lead the family! A word to the wise....

Endorsed by:

Christian Dela Afetor

Cons. Communication Director, Tema West

Some British rich men on tour the ruins of the Titanic confirmed dead

 

The men had gone to tour the ruins of the famous Titanic ship in the ocean and were reported to have gone missing together with the submarine that was to take them down the ocean to go tour the ruins last Sunday. Search teams were dispatched immediately to the rescue but all effort prove futile in the attempt to find and rescue the missing men. 

Many years ago, the Titanic ship which was claimed to be one of the safest ships of all times with the manufacturer claiming not even God was capable of sinking the ship, unfortunately sank with thousands of lives lost in the process. Since then, the spot of this catastrophe has remained a mystery ground claiming more lives year after year. Many have asked authorities to declare the region a grave, barring all expeditions to the area but all these calls have fallen on deaf ears. No wonder we're here again, mourning with no mean a family than the famous Masood family for the loss of their beloved father and son in this new disaster.

Yesterday, the US coastal authorities declared them officially dead after only a debris of the submersible they went under the sea with was found.

So many questions have plagued the mind of many across the globe-how come no rescue measures were put in place to cater for any eventuality? Why were there no backup plans, nor missing signals? How did this happen to the US of all nations with all its advancement and sophisticated technology? How many years and how many more lives should it take authorities to declare the ruins of the Titanic a grave (for that is what it is, and graves are sacred!)

Educate your children at all cost Yao Agbenyo

 BECE results are out once more, SHS placements will be out soon. Do your best to allow your children have the best experience as far as formal education is concerned. 

The most valuable gifts a parent could bestow upon their children is to

have them properly educated, and given a good relationship with their creator. There is very little disputation to this. Parents need to invest as much resources as possible in their kids in order to have them properly positioned to face all the hercules that come along the voyage of life. 

I am very pained however when parents feel ok spending so much money changing clothes and sewing new styles of dresses, and suits, spending lavishly at funerals, parties, and other social gatherings, yet when it comes to the education of their children and paying for their wards' educational materials, they make up all sorts of excuses and reasons for which they can't afford to pay. Dear parents, prioritise your wards' educational needs this year. 

If you can afford to educate your children at home, please do it, and if you have the means to send them abroad too, do not hesitate at all. The current Education System makes it very possible for you to school your children at home, yet get them to write the mainstream exam and still excel even above those who have been educated within the four walls of a school. Any experience the school system is designed to give, a parent with money, and a determination to get their ward well fed with quality education could equally do so without necessarily sending them into the four walls of an institution.

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Ensure your children learn the computer. I usually urge parents to encourage their wards to take lessons in basic computer skills and design technologies when they are on vacation or awaiting their results. Let them learn how to make flyers, do video editing, how to use the excel and PowerPoint, and even go into coding and robotics if the needs be. This will greatly help them in future. 

Avoid forcing your children to pursue your childhood dream programs. Many parents have tried this and put their children in harm's way as well as endangered the lives of many. Imagine forcing your ward to read Science when they have passion for arts? There are several intricacies regarding the choice of career and accompanying courses, however, the bottom line is to be sure you and your child are well informed and there's mutual understanding before the career choices are made. You may call the writer of this piece for proper guidance and support in this regard. 

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When in your grey and weakly days you come back home, would you say you have invested enough in the education of your wards?

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How to Handle Adolescents Today

 

HOW TO HANDLE ADOLESCENTS TODAY

The conflict between grown-ups and teenagers has always been an age long combat. Over the years, many parents and loco parents have been wondering if there are any peculiar and effective ways of handling adolescents that are sure to yield lasting results in the lives of the youngsters they lead. In times past, youths and adolescents had very little say in decisions that concerned their lives, from what to eat to what school to attend and even who to marry! They were handled with canes, lashes, threats, and punishments if they dared go against the dictates of their parents and guardians. There were hardly any chance for the youngster to say what he thinks about any given issue. In cases of conflict between a youngster and an adult, we were told “the elder is never wrong” even if the adult was clearly at fault. Some of the offences or things adults then considered offences were quite ridiculously funny to the extent that one could get beaten for crying after having been beaten, and receiving more punishment for not crying after being beaten. Sleeping too early could attract punishment, not sleeping early could equally attract punishments. Eating in a family member’s house could attract beatings and more canes, and insults could flow for not eating what is available when one was hungry. Teenagers who were caught exploring sexualities were syringed with ginger and pepper concoctions. Physical and verbal abuses were rampant as forms of deterrence for delinquent youths, and many other forms of punishments that have become issues of child right litigations today. It is not gainsaying that some of these hardhanded approaches to adolescent molding yielded some positive results in times past.

However, in recent times when it has become difficult for adults to even make decisions for, and even with the youngsters, there is the need to adopt modern techniques in handling these youths in an attempt to adapt to the changing trends and cultures. Let us explore some of the suggestions that could help us wrap our arms around the now herculean task of youth engagement.

Train up the child the way he should go, so that when he grows, he will not depart from it. The adolescent child is a product of their childhood experiences. In view of this, parents should ensure they introduce their children to the right experiences of love, care, and understanding before the child reaches adolescence. Parents who notice stubbornness and self will in the lives of their children before adolescence should understand they are going to have difficult time handling such children in adolescence if the necessary steps are not taken to correct them before they grow. Strike the rod while it is still hot. It is sad that parents can leave their children at home and go to church, the child refuses to go to school and the mother just laments and complains without taking action. Some fathers are not helping issues either because of loose handedness and irresponsibility. Parents have the responsibility first to train up their children before any loco parents take over. Children teachers at church, and school teachers have the next responsibilities as loco pants after biological parents. Wives should mind their relations towards their husbands, husbands should mind their relation and speech towards their wives, especially in the presence of the children because “out of the mouth of children come words that adults should not have spoken.”

As they get closer to adolescence, observe to do according to the following:

Build confidentiality and trust first. Many have opined that in order to deal with youths effectively, there is the need to listen and listen and listen to them! But many in this school have forgotten that for decoding to occur, the other partner has to be ready to encode; otherwise there is nothing to listen to. How do you get the youngsters to talk to you? They have become excessively secretive, and protective of their lives. Many are not even ready to sit with many an adult in the first place. How do you get them to talk? Build confidentiality and trust. When you first talk, start with a discussion on how a lot of adults have become broadcasting corporations. They listen to you, intentionally pry into your issues not because they have any solutions, or intend to solve the problems but to go and broadcast it around and on the pulpit! This is one major thing youths detest about adults; leaders and pastors in particular. Then let them know how you intend to deal with their issues differently. Say it, speak about confidentiality more often when you are with them, and make sure you do not betray their trust. This might not take a day or two. It will take a time of friendliness and harmless giftings and praises to build this trust. If you are not real about this, they will know with time, and you lose them forever.

Correct in private, praise in the open. Doing this tells the youth that you respect them, and their self worth. This principle is mainly taught to intending and married couples, but we forget it is a major principle in adolescent mentorship and grooming. Nobody likes public embarrassment or upfront confrontations and rebukes. Rebuking youths openly only scares them away and creates feelings of worthlessness and lasting inferiority complex. If you observe certain behavioral deviations in dressing, in speech, company, or any other cultural deviations that are likely to impede the positive developments of the youth, remember; praise in the open; correct in private.

Listen. Parents and other youth stakeholders should focus on building friendships, and listen to their children with an intent of interest and willingness to help without condemnations and judgement, and lead by example! Encourage them to talk more after that cordiality is established. Remember no matter how friendly you are with adolescents, there will be inhibitions against opening up on certain serious issues. Their friends in school are pestering them with issues of sex and sexuality, drugs, menstruation, music, Christianity and other religions, and so many things, and these disturb them honestly. It may take work for them to admit this but be rest assured, they do. There is the need for a push and encouragement for them to talk about things that bother them. Sometimes, postpone the discussion, wake up at dawn and call them to it. Be sure to ignore irrelevant issues. Let things that have past, that do not have very grave consequences on the future go, and rather concentrating on showing understanding, empathy, and forgiveness.

Do not be too conscious of they respecting you, but build an atmosphere that will make them enjoy that friendship, but find it difficult to disrespect you. You can do this by speaking about these things when they are in groups meetings like church or youth fellowship and cell meetings.

Be genuinely interested in their progress and well being in life. Instead of just shouting and condemning their nonserious attitude towards church and spiritual issues, take time to ask about their academics, about FOOD, about their health, and other needs. Where possible, get others to help you buy some gifts for them. Show genuine interest. Sit with them, take a walk, and other things that aim at reducing tension and shyness between you the adult and the kids.

Control your emotions when dealing with adolescents. The youth ministry is a ministry of disappointments. If one of your youths, who you so much trust confesses to you a grave sin he or she has committed, do you have the mental fortitude to handle it without tantrums? If one of your youths outrightly disobeys and demeans your authority in the presence of everybody, will you get angry, or you will be able to hold it for another day? How you handle that embarrassment will from that day determine the light in which they see you. Learn to smile things off and laugh even when you are offended and call the culprit later, assuring him/or her that you understand what is going on, and that you do not hold anything against them, then make conscious efforts to pull them closer for that shyness and embarrassment to be erased for a smooth relation to continue.

Avoid being dictatorial. When there is mutual respect, young people will find it difficult to say no to instructions from adults, but where the adult feels an entitlement to be obeyed at all times by the youth without having a say, it becomes more of a burden and fear relation to the youth. They will then start plotting how to neutralize that authoritativeness. Instructions should not come with force, leaving no options for the youth. Calm down, and come down to the level of the youth, and allow them the opportunity to have a say in decisions that concern them.

Watch and observe for change in behavior and depressive tendencies. Depression in the life of adolescents is more real now than before. Social media and peer influences have made life very complex, complicated, and difficult for adolescents. Friends are flaunting their unrealistic properties around, they see their peers in cars, at beaches, and other entertaining functions. The pressure to also have what their peers seem to have is mounting every now and then on young people. This pressure eventually leads to depressive and suicidal thoughts. If your young people are withdrawing form public gathering and retreating from what they used to enjoy before, there is a cause for alarm. You need to draw the attention of other youth workers as soon as possible before you hear the worst news of your life.

Spare the rod, spoil the child. Discipline is very important as well as all these methods. It becomes difficult to cane a child today if they are not your biological children. Parents should stamp their feet on the ground, and know when to insist that their children go a certain way, and when to punish their children appropriately without excesses, and not without wisdom. At certain points in the life of a recalcitrant child, no loco parent has the authority to apply force in today’s world, but where the parents are alive, force should be applied. Or the child could be moved from their biological parents to live with other people if the child seems to be taking the familiarity with their parents for granted.

Do not fail in your parental role. Employ persuasion, employ discipline, use every legitimate means available to you to ensure that the children God has given you do not fail in this life.

This write up is not enough to digest how to preach today. You may invite the writer for further discussions, workshops, and preaching sessions on this matter and more.

The writer is a communications strategist, Youth Life and Leadership Coach.

 

Thank you, and God bless you.

E. Yao Agbenyo

Youth Life and Leadership Coach

Youth and Future Incorporated

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Ghana, West Africa

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How to Preach Today by Yao Agbenyo

Fast forward to life after the first decade of the 21^st century. Illiteracy has drastically reduced, many have been educated, and now have access to computers, smart phones and social media. Conferences are held online, in social media groups and pages. Knowledge has astronomically increased across all spheres. Consequently, most of your listeners today know more on any given topic than you could possibly deliver on a Sunday morning or during a church meeting. 

HOW TO PREACH TODAY

A brief introduction to the principles and practice of preaching in the 21^st century

E. Yao Agbenyo

What are the best preaching practices today?

How do I get my congregation to ask for more?

Why do my listeners sleep during my message? Is it demonic, or my congregation is just not spiritual enough?

How do I assess my message impact?

In this short article, Yao Agbenyo explores with you some of the best in-church preaching practices that will transform your ministry.

BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION

Most of your listeners today know more on any given topic than you could possibly deliver on a Sunday morning or during a church meeting. Years ago, up till the end of the twentieth century in the year 2000, even till the end of the first decade of the 21^st century in 2010,  local  preachers were, and remained almost the only source of information to many on matters of Scripture, Christianity, Faith, and Life in general. Preachers were the only Life Coaches that were. They were the final authority on many things in the lives of people. Is it same today? It took much more extra effort for congregations to get more information on life. They either ordered CDs from abroad, bought books, or attended paid conferences to sharpen their knowledge on a lot of things. Many in the 19^th and 20^th centuries remained uneducated, hence preachers enjoyed the monopoly of authority and knowledge. There was no pressure on preachers to learn ‘how’ to deliver messages then. You just needed to preach with a number of Bible reference texts, and that was it. No matter how monotonous, how dull, or uninteresting your message, you will have a committed congregation that would come every week to listen to you.

Fast forward to life after the first decade of the 21^st century. Illiteracy has drastically reduced, many have been educated, and now have access to computers, smart phones and social media. Conferences are held online, in social media groups and pages. Knowledge has astronomically increased across all spheres. Consequently, most of your listeners today know more on any given topic than you could possibly deliver on a Sunday morning or during a church meeting. Preachers should note therefore, that though the gospel of Jesus has not changed, the standard of holiness and righteousness expected to be delivered to our congregations has not changed, and should not, our culture, and times have changed. There is therefore a need to adapt quickly, and adopt modern and current practices that will make our listeners want to listen to us, which would ultimately increase the impact and impartations in the lives of our congregations.

 THE MATTER OF THE MOMENT

No matter what message is being preached, if the preacher is not on top of his message, content, and delivery, people will sleep. It has very little to do with the spiritual state of the congregation.

What then should a preacher do differently now to get his congregation asking for more?

1.      Go deeper than your congregation in everything; read more, pray more, listen to other preachers and make notes! Sometimes, sit down too and let another preach for you to listen! Be on top of your message.

2.      ALWAYS SPEND LESS TIME THAN YOU ARE GIVEN. People no longer enjoy long messages.

3.      Record your messages for personal assessment. Get others to assess your delivery, and be ready to make amends and corrections.

4.      Note down your topic and key points you’ll be asking your congregation to write down

5.      Get new stories every day.

6.      Practice voice modulation

7.      Exercise to feel more energetic and confident

8.      Add humour, but be mindful of excesses so your congregation does not become too used to them.

9.      ALWAYS speak within less time than you are given

10.   Aim at impact, and not the wealth of words. Jesus wasn’t a long talker, he focused on the impacts.

11.   Add proverbs, rhetorical questions, deepen, and lighten your voice appropriately; know when to shout, when to scream, when to whisper, and when to speak normally.

12.   Aim at adding something new every day; new stories, new words, new strategies, new approach. Never be predictable

13.   Maintain eye contact with your congregation. Master the stage.

14.   Get your congregation involved in your delivery by insisting on points they should note down, open the bible and read together with you. If they fail to read along, call them to it, call for chorus answers, and individual answers.

15.   Read more. Read everything, including circular knowledge, tradition, and other religions. You need all these to be able to refute arguments and help your congregation understand certain developments better. Are you abreast with the latest news, and songs in town?

16.   Raise arguments that you know your congregation has been battling with, refute, and leave some questions unanswered to keep the discussion going on even after the service.

17.   Appeal to the emotions of your congregation.

18.   Leave the stage when the applause is loudest.

NATURALLY SLOW SPEAKERS TO NOTE

Whereas speaking comes naturally to the sanguins and cholerics, introverted preachers like the phlegmatics, and melancholics have a more arduous task at speaking. Congregations find them slow, monotonous, and boring. These preachers could note the following for effective preaching. In the first place, speaking is an art, and could be learnt and practised.

1.      Write down your topic, and points you will ask your congregation to write down. Giving congregations points to write down will get them involved, prevent people from sleeping, and help you stick to time.

2.      Ask questions, both rhetorical and probing questions.

3.      Request the congregation to read along with you.

4.      Always bring an axiomatic statement the congregation will take home after your message.

5.      Learn to add humour to your message, but remember to be in time.

6.      Do not stand at one point while preaching. Learn to move around, and even touch one or two members of the congregation during your message.

7.      Research more into how to be the best of yourself to your congregation

OTHER MATTERS

No matter how small your audience, you are a leader, and a leader’s number one mandate is to produce more leaders. This will happen when you give people the benefit of the doubt, the opportunities to show what they have. Give people opportunities. That is how to mentor.

Others outside your congregation would want to listen to you. Get social media handles, cut some messages short and continue on your handles through short videos and interview, and live sessions.

Employ the drama approach. It is now yielding very good results. Allow the drama, spoken word, poetry, and music ministries to thrive. Do not silence them.

 

Conclusively, preaching in our time requires more from the preacher than used to be. It is therefore imperative to “study to show thyself approved….” as we have been admonished by the apostle Paul, if we are to leave our congregations in awe, calling for more engagements with us.

 

This write up is not enough to digest how to preach today. You may invite the writer for further discussions, workshops, and preaching sessions on this matter and more.

The writer is a communications strategist, Youth Life and Leadership Coach.

 

Thank you, and God bless you.

E. Yao Agbenyo

Youth Life and Leadership Coach

Youth and Future Incorporated

Tema,

Ghana, West Africa

+233(0)543 556 235

yaoagbenyo@gmail.com

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The Christian Home

THE CHRISTIAN HOME

The Christian Home: a home where each finds joy in serving other, and Christ is the center there.

They say the greatest needs of a man is "respect"

But do you know what it means to respect him?🤔 Do you know the things that men regard as respect? RESEARCH that, read, ask, find out. And if you don't, or you can't, or you're not willing to respect him, don't marry him. If you do, you're just wicked. And if you're married and you're not showing him that respect, well, no divorce... Will you repent?😊

"Husbands, love your wives...." Says the Constitution of our kingdom, but do you know what it means to love a woman? Do you know what women regard as love?RESEARCH that, Read, ask, find out...and if you don't, or you're not ready to love her, don't marry her. If you do, you're just wicked. To marry a woman you don't love is wickedness. And if you're married, and you're not living that love with her, well, no divorce...just repent.

We can have happier homes when we constantly remind ourselves of these things, and eschew selfish and self-centered living.

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HOW TO IMPROVE SCHOOL PERFORMANCE

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HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SCHOOL'S ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE.
Educational standards have fallen short of the glory of old, students are performing more poorly than before, many schools are bemoaning the inability of their students to keep up the standards or even improve upon the performance of previous years. The situation is that bad, yet other schools too are performing to very outstanding levels. What exactly are the high performance schools doing that the lower ranking schools ain't doing?

Read this article from the renowned educationist and former headmaster of DLS who has also lectured EFL at Alliance Française de Tema, and taught in about six Senior High Schools in Ghana, E. Yao Agbenyo. He suggests a few adjustments you could do to achieve the outstanding result you want.

THE MISTAKES OF SCHOOL MANAGERS.
School Managers as used here refers to those who fall within the range from the Head, Principal, Proprietors to the Departmental or Unit heads on the organogram.

 The first mistake is the temptation to treat staff members like their students. Some school Managers tend to believe in the school master ideology where they lead staff members like students. Probably, the thought is that if I relate with them, they’ll disrespect me and not work to their best. Hear this, staff members are not babies, they know what is good or bad. You can relate with them cordially and be more respected than you will be when you distant yourself from them, trying to force them into subordination. If you respect staff members, research says, they feel more obligated to put in their best than when you bully them around.
Absence of periodic, methodological, and Pedagogical updates and seminars for teachers.

This is best done at Departmental levels, but could also be done for a whole staff. On every staff, there are more experienced ones who could be made to address the staff on salient educational practices. This is good for the non professional members of staff in particular. Yet, attention should not be only on the old members of staff to lead such sessions, some of the younger teachers even have better ideas. When school managers refuse to this, giving very flimsy excuses, they should not expect very good results. Here, employ the examiners in the various subjects to tell you what exactly the expectations of the examiners are during the international exams, because sometimes, their expectations are miles apart from what some teachers teach in the classroom.

Wrong subject teachers. Some school managers put square pegs in round holes, yet expect outstanding results. That’s self mockery, and ironical. Teachers must be made to teach subjects they specialize in for effective, and efficient teaching, and learning. For instance, in some schools, petroleum engineers who did not get their preferred jobs are placed in class to teach mathematics and science, when the students fail, you cry wolf. Why ? Ghanaian language teachers, teaching core English, and Literature in English (a very technical and expertise oriented subject). Administration must sit up and correct these things if they really need the results. If they are not just pretending to be fighting.

The laissez-faire leadership. In as much as it is rewarding to respect teachers and make them feel welcome, loved, and trustworthy, it is also dangerous to presume that all teachers love their work and will do their best, and to as a result, neglect the important tenets of management and administration which include monitoring and evaluation. There are indeed, teachers with so many businesses in town who seek the slightest loophole to sneak out of work to their businesses. There’s othing wrong with a teacher having other businesses for himself, but he must know how to manage his time in order to be with his businesses at the right time. Bear in mind, some humans work better under pressure. Additionally, some teachers may miss certain deadlines because they forget a particular schedule or something else cropped in u expectedly. Research says that, school managers who know when, and how to apply human face to staff offences, and show empathy and understanding where necessary, have their staff members working extra hard when they regain full schedule. Have you ever heard teachers say that « If the hunters learn to shoot without missing, the birds too will learn to fly without perching » ? That is what is done to overly strict, heartless, and egotistic school managers. So, supervisor, supervise, monitor, evaluate, but don’t forget the humanity of humanity.
Let’snot forget this, that in the absence of teaching and learning materials, outstanding results will remain a mirage. The best managers provide their staff with the right materials. In schools where science, and home science departments have no labs for practical lessons, teachers have no markers to write on the boards, students have no chairs to sit on, classrooms are inadequate, TVs and projectors, even where available, are not in good shape, yet administration is unconcerned, cannot perform any magic to halt the abysmal performance of students.

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING UNITS
One of the most indispensable, yet overlooked units in schools is the guidance and counseling units. This unit requires someone who has specialised in this area. Suicide is on the rise, students are studying wrong courses, subjects that have no links with their interest areas and future aspirations. If the student has no interest in the subject, forget about results. Serminars must be organized with seasoned and passionate speakers with stories and experience to speak to the students on the essence of education, How to learn, Time Management, and others. One on one counseling sessions should be organized, students should be called at random sometimes for questioning and counseling.

THE TEACHER
A teacher who doesn’t have a firm grip of the subject he/she teaches will surely produce students with bad results. Sit, down, sit up and learn, read to keep your mind abreast with what the new trends of Teaching are, and ask questions from superiors, and seniors. Our teachers must be humble enough to know that they can’t know everything, and even what you know, sometimes you forget as if you never learnt them at all. Teaching is an art, and a science. Read more to know more.
The teacher as Loco Parentis is a Pedagogical practice that must not be overlooked. This means the teacher is the parent of the child in school. You can only be an effective parent if you employ the new research area ; Teacher-Student Care. Read more about that. Students tend to love subjects of teachers who show care and affection towards them, no matter how difficult the subject is presumed to be, and this ultimately translates into Sterling performance. Monitor, evaluate, and employ the right teaching methodologies in the classroom, and ensure that your students get the right information they need to pass the exams. Do not forget this, that a student who claims to have learnt, but cannot recollect, has not learnt at all.
THE PARENTS/GUARDIANS
Parents should be sensitized to be ready to spend on the education of their wards. Some parents today prefer to spend money on funeral dresses, engagement and other events than they are ready to spend on their children. This is because they do not know the value of spending their all on the education of their children. Funny enough, some parents are of the view that they might not live to enjoy the fruit of their labours, hence would want to enjoy all they have now while they can. Such parents need total mentality reorientation at the PTA meetings.
CONCLUSION
Let our school managers make their staff members needed, wanted, valuable, and trustworthy, ensure that the teachers are teaching with the right qualifications and subject areas. If the guidance and counseling section does its work well, and the students are really well oriented constantly and consistently, with the right teaching and learning materials, plus the right atmosphere, conducive for effective teaching and learning, we can have the best results.

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