Teachers lack teaching skills – President
According to latest research carried out by the Ministry of Education, around 10 per cent of teachers were unsuitable for the teaching profession, stated President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (18).
He adduced that teachers had the required paper qualifications, but lacked the skill to be good teachers. The President was handing over teaching appointments to graduates in the North Western Province, at the Welagedara Grounds, Kurunegala.
Nearly 1,400 graduates were given teaching appointments.
According to a media release issued by the President’s Media Division, President Sirisena had emphasised the importance and responsibility of building a teaching force which bore the signs of creativity and personality necessary for a present-day teacher.
The President further said, a teacher’s role is not fulfilled only by teaching and the responsibility of students during school hours was also vested with class teachers.
The President spoke of the need to update knowledge to face challenges in the classroom, as students move forward with the latest technology.
The President also laid the foundation stone for a new office complex of the North-Western Province Governor’s Office, the release concluded.
(Source: Ceylon Today)
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So, Mr President,
What action have you taken as Head of Govt to up skill the teachers?
Were you so busy with earning Komis in your last days that you did not have time to address national issues?
Ms Fareena,
Perhaps your questions should be directed to the Minister of Education.
Minister Hashim?
Or maybe the highways were more lucrative for him!
Yes, most of them in Parliament do not have the skills and education to be legislatures.
Although they lacked teaching skills, at least the teachers had
” paper qualifications” , which is more than most of our politicians!