Prof. John Gatsi during the launching 25th-anniversary celebrations of the 1997 year group of Keta Secondary Technical School Old Students Association has called for support to energize the school’s NSMQ contestants.
The 1997 year group of the past students association of Keta Secondary Technical School launched their 25th anniversary today to prepare for the main celebration in February 2022.
Speaking at the launch Prof. John Gatsi who is also a past student in the 1993/1995 year groups, thanked the year group for organizing themselves to celebrate.
He said Ketasco is historically noted for quality performance and can be preserved through discipline among students and teachers as well as the time-tested support by Parent Teacher Association (PTA). He asked that PTAs should be allowed to operate in support of Schools as it was in the past.
He argued that the school’s population is more than 3.500 with 175 teachers many of whom live outside the school due to the lack of bungalows on the school premises. This development may be contributing to the difficulty in ensuring the needed discipline.
Commenting on the theme preserving the history of quality performance: the role of technology, Prof Gatsi thanked the 1997 year group who have announced a pledge to provide computers to refurbish the computer laboratory but raised the issue that the deployment of technology for teaching and learning when not done well may lead to inequity of access and participation by both teachers and students.
He said most JHS students under the guidance of their parents use devices such as mobile phones, iPads, laptops, and tablets to do their homework.
That it is time to consider a guided use of these devices by secondary school students to participate well and benefit from technology-driven learning. Space. Prof. Gatsi argued that the high cost of these devices excludes both teachers and students from participating in technology-aided teaching and learning. Prof. Gatsi advised that technology should help bring closer to students. He said with technology it should be easy to teach Geomorphology and climatology for example with better connection for the students even if they don’t travel to places where particular geomorphic features are located.
He advised the school to work hard to reduce partisan politics among staff to achieve more.
On the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz, Prof. Gatsi congratulated the team and called on Dzolalians to support the contestants and their coaches in whatever way possible to motivate the team to win at the final contest. He thanked Mr. Xoese Dogbey for the provision of three laptops to the contestants and others who have supported the team to this level.
Prof. Gatsi recognized the seniority of the Chairman and the headmaster who completed in 1980 and 1988. He thanked the headmaster for the hard work and said he was enrolled as a fresh student in Ketasco in the year the headmaster left the school