Ghana Education Service

On a typical day at work, that is in school, we report at 6:30 am and register. Ensures and supervises the cleaning of the classrooms and compound. That is in about 30 minutes and regroup pupils in the classroom for an early morning lessons which mostly focuses on literacy and numeracy. There is later an assembly for prayers and devotions at about 8:00am. Then the actual class sessions begin.
Various teachers take their turns lessons after lessons of which I the Mathematics teachers too is actively involved. I teach here using a chalk and a blackboard. The working conditions are not very favorable in the Education service of Ghana but we a lot of innovations we are able to up to expectations.
School closes mostly at 2:35pm with a lot of stress onwards having to mark exercises and prepare notes for the next day.
I have learnt to endure and to accept pupils for who they are as a teacher.
Management is not responsive when the need arises.
The hardest part of this job has been to work and try to inculcate knowledge to the young ones even under such nonconforming environment with limited teaching and learning aids/materials.
The enjoyable part of the work is having to have chats with colleagues and seeing these young pupils make it when they finally pass out on their external examinations. The kids are also very fun to be around.

I feel happy when I'm at work because the thought of being with my pupils and imparting knowledge to them makes me happy. Though there are challenges with respect to teaching, I manage to sail through. Especially teaching pupils of different IQs. With the skills I have as being a professional teacher, I vary my method of teaching so to meet my goals at the end of my lesson delivery. I've come to understand different cultures because the children I teach are from different cultural backgrounds and so I respect and understand them very well. I happen to be in a school with good infrastructure so my classroom management is very good and conducive for learning. One of my hardest part of the teaching job is, no matter how daft a pupil is , you would have to help him or her to discover his her interest and build something meaningful from there. I enjoy working as a teacher because  it keeps me abreast with issues because it's believe that teachers know everything and that makes me learn about new things all the time. I'm always ready to explore. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Helping pupils to acquire knowledge is the best thing that urge me the more to work at the GES

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Improvising teaching and learning materials to facilitate learning

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
To be honest the classroom for teaching and learning is not conducive for the pupils to learn well specifically their chairs.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You have to prepare your learning plan for the lesson. 2 Your teaching notes. 3 Your TLM for teaching. 3 You marked your assessment questions after the lesson

A typical work day consists of two shifts. Morning and afternoon shifts.
The morning shift start from 7:20 am to 12:30noon. A timetable has been drawn to indicate the period in which you have to go a particular class to teach. There are nine periods per day and a period is about 30minutes whereas double period has an one hour.
We maintain the same timetable for the afternoon shift. But classes begin at 12:45pm and ends at 5:20pm.

A bell is always rang to remind a teach to change a lesson.
Strong team work is exhibited and good management system in place.

Inadequate of lack of teaching and learning materials is a great challenage hence does not make teaching enjoyable.

I wake up early as 4am and prepare for work, I commute from my residence to work place which is about 6 miles intervals,
I learn human behavior as I work as head in institution,
Management of school is of high important, if I fail as go manager ,the work becomes stand still.
The work culture is standard, I work with time ,there should be a teacher at at post during contact hours.
The hardest part of the work, is 1 managing those who are unwilling to work as per the standard.
2 Managing with out funds and shortage of material like chalk, lesson notes, etc.
The most enjoyable part of the job is seeing student getting better grades at their final examination.

work experience
usually we work from Monday to Friday from 8am -30pm.
Relating well with your boss (headmaster).collaborating with colleagues teachers and helping of each other through seminars to enhance better some topics.
communicating with the parent well and giving referrals' if need be.
Respecting and communicating at student level with confident. 
Lack of motivation and the salary  was not able to meet our basic needs.
When you see your student appreciate your hard by recommending to to their parent, the final  result in their external examination and the appraisal from the headmaster.

It is fun and quite an experience working with Ghana Education Service. This is a place where more is required of you. You are to do all that you can to see your students succeed.
I have learned through the hard way to do all within my means to see the work done wether all that you require to do the work is available or not, even though this put you at a difficult position but it also toughens you for difficult times.
Even though I would have wished that my salary is increased, what I enjoy the most is to see my students excelling and advancing in their careers and their field of endeavors.

What is the best part of working at the company?
The best part of working at Ghana Education  has improve my communication skills and my learning ability

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The most stressful part is marking of student's script

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The environment is quiet during classes hours but noisy when there is break time and the the culture the school want is to dress well and be decipline

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Friday is the day i like in the school because there are sporting activities

Teaching is one  professional that I admire and love so much and my passion to be a teacher is unquestionable and unquenchable but teaching in teaching in Ghana is seen as a cursed.  Because teachers are considered as extremely poor people  due to lack motivation to cushion the teacher and absent  so many allowances like accommodations allowance, fuel allowance, marking allowance, health insurance, uniform allowance, transport allowance, training or workshops allowances and so on. 


What is the best part of working at the company?
There is continuous professional training for development for in-service teachers 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The salary doesn’t commensurate with the work for proper upkeep. This hinder the quality of service 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Not too conducive and needs improvement 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I do enjoy lessons when students are able to comprehend and answer model questions

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