‘Evolve strategies to make teaching of Science attractive’

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Association of Science Teachers (GASTS), Mr Philip Owusu Afriyie, has urged his colleagues to evolve strategies that will make the teaching and learning of Science more attractive to students.

He said there was the need to make the teaching of Science and Mathematics practical and simple by making use of simple methods and initiatives that would make students develop interest in learning the subjects.

According, science and technology holds the key to industrialisation and economic advancement of every country, hence the need to ensure that more students develop interest in learning the subject.

Orientation workshop 

Mr Afriyie made the call at a one-day orientation workshop organised for Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates in the Ashanti Region.

The workshop at Asokore-Mampong, which was organised by GASTS, brought together candidates from selected schools to sharpen their skills in how to answer questions in the upcoming examination. It was also used to enlighten them on how to avoid regular mistakes and spelling mistakes made by most candidates during such examinations.

Teams from the GASTS visited the Asokore-Mampong Municipality, Afigya Kwabre, Bekwai and Ejisu-Juaben municipalities for similar workshops.

Research conducted by GASTS

The association’s decision to organise the workshop was as a result of a research conducted by GASTS three years ago, which showed that the interest of students in Science and Mathematics in schools was waning.

As part of efforts to make the teaching of Science easier and attractive, GASTs had been organising a series of workshops for Science teachers throughout in the region and the nation as a whole.

The regional chairman stressed the need to train more Science students in support of national development efforts, adding that, that could be done with the introduction of innovative methods in the teaching of the subject. 

Addressing the workshop at Asokore-Mampong, the Municipal Science Coordinator, Mrs Helena Antwi Bosiako, appealed for the building of more science resource centres in schools, in addition to the renovation and refurbishing of existing ones, in support of the teaching of the subject.