Talent hunting of students has become a major focus of Ada College of Education to harness the passion of kids and pupils of school going age.
This according to authorities at the Ada College of Education will not only help graduating students being sent to the classroom for knowledge sharing in theory but also enhance the practical part for easy student assimilation.
Principal of the Ada College of Education, Processor Prince Boateng said the college aims at making the students have a firm practical understanding of what they teach when they graduate to the classroom to teach their students thereby helping to identifying their talents for it to be developed.
Speaking at a two-day maiden Edition of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) fair at the Ada College of Education, Professor Prince Boateng further noted that the College as part of its mission of training students to transfer knowledge to the pupils in the classroom when posted after graduation, require better understanding of the areas that can easily identify the talents and passion of the kids.
“There is a huge talent in our children and they require tutors that are well poised to identify such traits for guidance to follow it to the latter” Professor Prince Boateng had said.
Professor Prince Boateng further said noted that Ada college of education is among eight other educational institution in Ghana that has embrace STEAM policy and hence poised to make it more practicable.
The College has a computer Lab, Biodigester and Incinerator Lab, Textile and garments facility among others aimed at appreciating the capabilities of the children that they will teach when they graduate to the classrooms.
The Principal Professor Prince Boateng said he in collaboration with actors in the Ada community intends to make the Ada College of Education become a beacon where Professional teachers with practical expertise are chinned out for knowledge transfer and talent identification and support for the kids in the classrooms when they are posted.
Member of Parliament for Ada East Constituency, Honorable Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe in her remarks encourages the students of Ada College of Education to embrace the inclusive policy and assured her support.
She said comparing Ghana to the developed Countries, it was about time for our educational system to focus on their talents, develop them and market it for the benefit of the economy instead of wasting the child’s time doing a whole lots without in some cases not able to identify his or her mission on this earth.
She further stated that the STEAM concept in Ada College of education is a foundation that identify the creative ideas that students can can make and harness their potential in what their talent could lead in becoming who they should be in the future.
Dr. Martin Otu Offei who is a lecturer at the Koforidua Technical University (KTU) the Computer Science department delivering a talk on the STEAM said there was the need for students whose talents are discovered get the needed support to master it for overall benefit of the nation.
He said in the United Kingdom where he has links with the system, the schools especially at the lower primary have specialized teachers who help the kids/pupils they teach in realizing and identifying the passion of the students while giving them the support for speedy discovery of their talents.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM/Joseph K. Atarika
