School Facilities
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
The quality of education depends on school facilities and instructional material. It is the process of students learning. The quality of a school’s environment and its facilities has a strong influence on students’ learning. Besides regular use in organizing and managing a school’s activities, records of a school’s physical facilities and material resources such as furniture and equipment can provide data to derive many indicators for assessing the quality of education in a school. School facilities can actually have a substantive impact on learning process. School facilities can be defined as those things that enable the teacher to do his/her work very well and helping the learners to learn effectively.
School facilities are all the things that are needed for effective teaching – learning process to take place. They are designed to enhance the process of teaching. The challenge for educators was to renovate or design buildings that provided the appropriate infrastructure for new learning approaches, mode of instruction, as well as tools for technology that improved teaching and learning. (Dewees, 1999)
Lack of facilities has an adverse effect on the performance of students in the less endowed schools, Professor Kwesi Andam, former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has stated. He noted that students of less endowed schools could therefore not compete with other students in major public examinations, which determined admission to universities andother tertiary institutions. Prof Andam made these observations at the 35th Anniversary Speech and Prize-Giving Day of the T I Ahmadiyya Senior High School at Gomoa Potsin in the Central Region at the weekend.
The main reason for the low education rates in Africa is the lack of proper schooling facilities and unequal opportunity for education across countries. Many schools across Africa find it hard to employ teachers due to the low pay and lack of
Introduction
The quality of education depends on school facilities and instructional material. It is the process of students learning. The quality of a school’s environment and its facilities has a strong influence on students’ learning. Besides regular use in organizing and managing a school’s activities, records of a school’s physical facilities and material resources such as furniture and equipment can provide data to derive many indicators for assessing the quality of education in a school. School facilities can actually have a substantive impact on learning process. School facilities can be defined as those things that enable the teacher to do his/her work very well and helping the learners to learn effectively.
School facilities are all the things that are needed for effective teaching – learning process to take place. They are designed to enhance the process of teaching. The challenge for educators was to renovate or design buildings that provided the appropriate infrastructure for new learning approaches, mode of instruction, as well as tools for technology that improved teaching and learning. (Dewees, 1999)
Lack of facilities has an adverse effect on the performance of students in the less endowed schools, Professor Kwesi Andam, former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has stated. He noted that students of less endowed schools could therefore not compete with other students in major public examinations, which determined admission to universities andother tertiary institutions. Prof Andam made these observations at the 35th Anniversary Speech and Prize-Giving Day of the T I Ahmadiyya Senior High School at Gomoa Potsin in the Central Region at the weekend.
The main reason for the low education rates in Africa is the lack of proper schooling facilities and unequal opportunity for education across countries. Many schools across Africa find it hard to employ teachers due to the low pay and lack of
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