Talk ABout Dedication

Written end of April
April 29
Today over 900 Ghanaian teachers left our campus, they will have three days with family before getting back to work. For the past three weeks, whole all other teachers and students were on break, they have been attending classes eight hours each day. These people are known as pupil teachers; they are untrained, some with only a middle school education. Yet they applied, interviewed, got accepted and have found the means to pay necessary fees to learn and earn a teaching diploma. They were here in December and will come again in August. In fact, for four years, they will come to campus during every school break they have. The Ghana Education Service began this program last year in the Northern Region, have extended it to Brong Ahafo and Ashanti Regions this year and will include other regions next year. The program is a solution to an ongoing problem not without flaws.
These people are completing the same course of study Teacher Training College students do. Teacher Training Students have completed Secondary School (high school) and have acquired academic skills and knowledge. Very often the UTTDBE student has poor English, speaking and writing skills; has only completed Junior Secondary School (middle school; is paid in fruits, vegetables or animals; has a family to care for; teaches in an over-populated classroom; teacher in areas no trained teacher would dare to go.
This program is necessary They say the UTTDBE stands for Untrained Teacher Diploma in Basic Education. I think it is more like this:
:
Unrelenting
True Teachers
Thriving
Desire to learn
Beautiful
Essential

This program is Ghana’s solution. Ghana cannot stop educating children while they remedy the teacher shortage problem. I can’t help but wonder is a little education better than no education at all?