As part of a ceremony to mark World Teachers Day on Tuesday, a 44-year-old teacher of Winneba Senior High School has been crowned 'Most Outstanding Teacher' for 2021.
Ebenezer Kojo Otoo, a Visual Arts and Ceramics teacher, received a cheque for GH¢250,000 for the construction of a three-bedroom house.
Other teachers awarded at the ceremony in Sunyani on October 5, 2021, include Reverend Sister Justinta Kwakyewaa of Saint Francis Senior High and Technical School in the Birim Central in the Eastern Region. She was the First Runner Up.
She won a double-cabin pickup vehicle as her prize.
The second runner up was also from a school in the Central Region.
A total of 19 teaching and non-teaching staff of the Ghana Education Service were honoured at the event.
Established in 1994, World Teachers Day commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 International Labour Organisation/UNESCO recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, which is a standard-setting instrument that addresses the status and situations of teachers around the world.
The Status sets benchmarks regarding the rights and responsibilities of teachers, and standards for their initial preparation and further education, recruitment, employment, and teaching and learning conditions.
The Sunyani ceremony to mark the day was on the theme “Teachers Wanted: Reclaiming Teaching and Learning for Human-centred Recovery.â€
The ceremony took place at Eusbett International Hall and was attended by some ministers of state, officials of the Ghana Education Service, the Ministry of Education, various teacher unions and a cross-section of teachers from all over Ghana.