TEACHER TAPP GHANA – THREE FASCINATING FINDINGS FROM THIS WEEK

Category: Education | Tags(#): Ghana , GSET , Teachers , Teacher Tapp , Stress

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Published Feb. 15, 2021, 2:33 p.m. by GSET

Welcome to our weekly blog for Teacher Tapp Ghana!

Every Monday we summarise our most surprising and interesting survey findings from the week before. This weekly blog provides an easy way for you to learn about the experiences and opinions of teachers across Ghana.

Please encourage your colleagues to use the Teacher Tapp app to keep engaged with education even when they’re not teaching. Your responses are also a vital data source that will guide decision-making around best policies and approaches for enhancing the welfare of educators/teachers and ensuring robust educational sector management.

Many more teachers will like to be heard and this can be done through Teacher Tapp. Do share this blog with your colleagues and encourage them to use the download links at the bottom of the page. In the meantime, here are this week’s intriguing findings…

1. Adjusting to teaching in this pandemic has been a herculean task for teachers

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about numerous challenges for everyone especially teachers and educators. Even though the use of technology has provided an innovative way of teaching and learning, it has not made the burdens on teachers any lighter. This week, in our interactions with our Teacher Tappers, we realized that teachers have been struggling to adjust to teaching in the pandemic. In this “new normal”, teachers should be provided the needed support and resources so that they will be able to take better control over the situation at hand.

2. Headaches and Fatigues are major signs of stress amongst teachers

Stress is caused by a number of factors. When teachers are stressed, they go through physical and mental burnouts. In our interactions with Teacher Tappers this week, we sought to find out some of the major signs that teachers exhibit when they are mentally or physically stressed. Per our survey, in order of frequency, these were the major signs that teachers tend to exhibit when they are stressed: fatigue, headache, anxiety, low concentration, irritation, and insomnia. Stress in teaching is a very pertinent issue and it imperative that school authorities and major stakeholders in education provide avenues and resources to help teachers deal with stress.

3. There are mild cases of mental and physical exhaustion amongst Ghanaian teachers

Stress continues to be an issue of importance in today’s world. In some other parts of the world like the United States of America, stress (emotional) is a leading cause of death in many people. This week, we wanted to find out if there are such extremes cases of stress in our local communities. Our interactions revealed, however, that, very few teachers suffered a severe level of stress. In as much as this statistic is a “good” one, it is very important that teachers are well taken care of to prevent such incidents.

4. Finally, we know you’re finding our daily readings useful, so here are some of the tips we gathered from last week…

Here’s how primary schools can make space for creativity. Here is how to teach it.

How to retrieve lessons studied from students

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The Ghana Society for Education Technology is the premier professional educational technology association in Africa based in Ghana. GSET works with the Ghanaian education community with the aim of accelerating the use of technology to solve tough problems and improve innovation in STEM education.