Role Of Teacher In Education

1. What is your response to this statement? Why?
I would respond to this statement, by first asking and give an answer to this question “what is the role and function of the teacher is in our everyday or normal learning environment?”
The teacher’s role and function first and foremost is to teach, by providing instructions (knowledge) in one or more academic areas to students. He is also a facilitator and a disseminator of knowledge.
Being compared to a fountain then emphasizes the teacher’s important role as the source or foundation upon which knowledge is dispense (‘sprout from or disseminated’) to students.
There is no doubt that for the teacher to be in a better position to play his role and functions well, he must have quality training

This country therefore recognizing the role and functions of the teacher in our educational system, has built two top public universities that provide training to would-be professional teachers up to the PHD level, the University of Education, Winneba, and the University of Cape Coast, at Cape Coast, these universities provide degree programs in Sciences, Technology, Arts and Humanities including Physical Education (Sports) and all student must as graduation requirement take a course in Education for a Diploma award, as part of the degree award.
Besides these two Universities’ there are about 38 Specialist professional Teacher Training colleges, that are supervised by the University of Cape Coast, which manage their curriculum, conducts final examinations and award Teacher Diploma Certificate. Graduates of these training colleges may further their training at any University. These trained professional teachers are mainly for the basic and primary level. Professional teachers who have at least undergraduate degree, may teach in either the basic, primary, secondary or in the Polytechnics levels, but almost all move unto the higher level. To teach at the University level, one must have at least a Master’s degree.

Pupils are also fed at least once a day at school. The system is still not that perfect, there are lapses. One would wonder if we are practicing socialism, that is not the case, It has been identified most parents cannot pay their wards fees and buy some of these items it is more of an attempt to provide every Ghanaian child the opportunity to be educated, as enshrined in our constitution.
Teachers are required to prepare weekly notes, according to the syllabus. Learning in this level is by rote.
In the secondary schools, there are quite there are teaching rooms and facilities, though not also perfect, here the schools have science laboratories and technical workshops if it is a technical school. Teachers teach in the same way as the basic levels, but the training is more exploratory, there are group work and individual work. Students engage in all types of student programs, such as the National Science and Mathematics Quiz, National Science Fair, and inter-secondary school sports festivals.
In the Colleges and the universities the lecturer gives out the main books which will guide his lectures. The lecturer teaches with a projector, and further explains by writing on a white board, at the end of the lectures he gives out the