SUPERVISION AND MONITORING UNIT
MISSION STATEMENT
To supervise effective teaching and learning in the Metropolis with emphasis on team work, hard work and respect to all children in the metropolis
VISION STATEMENT
To provide excellent supervisory role in Education
ABOUT THE UNIT
The Supervision and Monitoring Unit has the following officers under its umbrella;
- Science, Technology, Mathematics and Innovation Education (STMIE) Coordinator
- Guidance and Counseling Coordinator
- Culture Coordinator
- Physical Education and Health Coordinator
- Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) coordinator
- Early Childhood Coordinator
- Language Coordinator
- Special Education Coordinator (SPED)
The unit also has seven (7) SISOs under it. The circuits they are over seeing are;
Awudum Circuit
Ashamang Circuit
Oninku/Mante-Din Circuit
Twedaase Circuit
Community 11/Redemption Valley Circuit
Community 7/Republic Road Circuit
Community 8 circuit
STAFF OF THE UNIT
The Supervision and Monitoring Unit headed by CHRISTIANA ABLAKWA (MRS) has the following officers under its umbrella.
S/N | NAME OF OFFICER | SCHEDULE |
| 1 | HANNAH KUYOE BECCLES SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY, MATHEMATICS AND INNOVATION EDUCATION (STMIE) COORDINATOR |
| 2 | SAMUEL OKYERE AND JOYCE KUSI | GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING COORDINATORS |
| 3 | PHILIP GABLAH | MUSIC AND CULTURE COORDINATOR |
| 4 | DAVID ATSU COPPERFIELD | PHYSICAL EDUCATION COORDINATOR |
| 5 | SAMUEL JERRY ATSU | HEALTH COORDINATOR |
| 6 | PATRICK ASIEDU MINTA TECHNICAL | VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING (TVET) COORDINATOR |
| 7 | ELIZABETH AKOWUAH | EARLY CHILDHOOD COORDINATOR |
| 8 | SELINA BERNICE OWUSU | LANGUAGE COORDINATOR |
| 9 | MICHAEL LANGMER | SPECIAL EDUCATION COORDINATOR (SPED) |
The unit also has seven (7) SISOs and seven Circuit they are overseeing which are;
| S/N | NAME OF OFFICER | CIRCUIT |
| 1 | Rita Brown Fletcher | Awudum |
| 2 | Betty Ohene Obeng | Ashamang |
| 3 | William Obeng Ampofo | Twedaase |
| 4 | Patricia Mankatah | Oninku/Mante Din |
| 5 | Bernice Sefakor Doviah | Community 11/Redemption Valley |
| 6 | Francis Gashika | Community 7/Republic Road |
| 7 | Esther Ofosu | Community 8 |
FUNCTIONS OF THE UNIT
The unit oversees all activities at the pre tertiary education in the district. Major functions of the unit include;
- Monitoring and supervision of teaching and learning in Basic and Second Cycle Schools.
- Implementations of policy guidelines for all Basic Schools and Second Cycle Institutions in collaboration with the relevant authorities and key stakeholders.
- Liaises with the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) in the administration, conduct and monitoring of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) analysis of the BECE results in the Metro.
- Ensures distribution of essential teaching and learning materials to schools.
- Supports the implementation of key interventions for increasing access, equity and improving quality education in the metro.
- Provide effective support to schedule officers within the unit in the supervision, management and monitoring of teaching and learning, guidance & counseling, special needs education for both learners and facilitators and inspection in all pre-tertiary institutions in the Metropolis.
- Ensures the maintenance of school quality standards (SQS) in all pre-tertiary institutions in the Metro, both public and private.
- Holds regular staff meetings and draw up annual and termly action plans to cover the activities of all officers in the unit.
- Monitors and supervises the progress of teaching and learning in schools to ensure that the educational programmes and processes conform to strategic objectives and indicators as determined by MOE/GES
- Brings to the notice of the Metro Director of Education (MDE) any serious shortcomings and deficiencies which militate against the progress of teaching/learning in schools (public/private) with the view of rectifying them.
- Introduces, promotes and encourage professional innovations and “good practices” with the approval of the MDE, ie School Report Card (SRC), Documentation of lateness and absenteeism among teachers and pupils/students.
- Give guidelines, in consultation with MDE, on content of curriculum, methodologies and skillful assessment in the various subject areas.
- Analyses supervision and monitoring report received from SISOs and other officers in the unit and ensure that appropriate actions are taken promptly as required.
- Organizes meetings or durbars at circuit centres and in the communities with the approval of MDE, to disseminate findings and give feedback on critical issues identified in the report (using established district structures ie, DEPT, DTST, IEC Teams).
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Organized Mathematics and Science Quiz and Spelling Bee competition for Primary Schools, the first of its kind in the Metro at both school and circuit level where winners were given trophy and decorated with medals.
- The introduction of tags for well-behaved students, decoration of schools with balloons, serving learners with cocoa drinks to welcome our students on re-opening day.
- Motivating the 2021 and 2022 BECE candidates at Community 11/Redemption Valley circuit with chocolates have impacted positively on the learners.
- Refurbishment of offices for the SISOs in the Metro to help attend to correspondences from Staff, PTA and SMC members and other stake holders.
- Community 11 Complex JHS is one of the schools selected for NORFOLK SISTER CITY ASSOCIATION programme.
- Archbishop Andoh R/C basic school’s GSTEM Team (Genius Juniors) qualified and got selected as one of the first fifty (50) schools out of over one thousand plus participating schools for final exhibition and awards 2023.
- Redemption Valley Primary received a fully furnished computer laboratory with 24 computers, headteachers office, staff common room and a renovated six (6) unit classroom blocks by Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Redemption Valley Congregation, which was originally a GETFUND Project
- Construction of infrastructure eg. Cruyff Court, the first of its kind in the Sub-Saharan Africa to help build talents and skills.
- Construction of canteen blocks in some schools (PTA sponsorship projects), building of an Educational Complex by the parents of St. Paul Methodist for its school.
- Donation of computers by both MPs to some of the schools in the Metro.
- A computer lab inaugurated at ST Peter RC Basic School at the beginning of the term to help learners acquire digital literacy and be able to use the computers in their daily lessons (Donation was made by Pioneer food Cannery)
- An on-going school building project on the Manhean Methodist and Manhean TMA school compound steadily progressing. The former MP Hon. Titus Glover is the brain behind the project together with the Assembly
- Final year students given the opportunity to engage with examiners in some subject areas to brief them on the dos and donts
- Tema Metro won the regional 66th Independence Anniversary Parade
- Mr Eric Asomaning, a teacher at Naylor SDA JHS was adjudged the Most Outstanding teacher in the Ghana |Teacher Prize award in the year 2020 and also the National STEM Teacher of the year award in 2022
- Mr McClean Kwabena Owusu-Boateng also a teacher at Naylor SDA JHS won the National Best JHS teacher in the Ghana Teacher Prize Award in the Year 2022
- A new school block for Manhean Presby Primary Schools to stop the shift system
- Celebration of International Day for Women and Girls in Science with Female Engineers from Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCO)
- Organized the second edition of the Metro SHS Science and Mathematics Quiz.
- Tema Metro placed first and third in the 2023 SHS renewable energy challenge in the region.
PROJECTIONS
- Lobby to furnish schools without computers and other ICT devices.
- Get more furniture for the facilitators and learners who lack them within the schools.
- Getting Library books for all schools to improve literacy.
- The schools in the circuit hope to reduce absenteeism and improve general performance especially in the BECE
- To win the upcoming Inter District Sports Festival
- Enhance teaching and learning, consistent supervision will be enforced
- Quizzes, Debates, Durbars and all other related activities planned by the metro to be organized effectively to raise Tema Metro to a standard which will be second to non