Overcrowding a challenge for teachers

TEACHERS face many challenges from overcrowding in classrooms to new education reforms and changes in curriculum, a head teacher says.
Coronation Primary School head teacher in Boroko, National Capital District, Eli Auka, said teachers needed help from parents and all other relevant authorities to make their jobs easier.
“Education is everyone’s responsibility, we all have a part to play in educating our children and should not leave all that responsibility on teachers alone,” he said.
Auka said last year, the school enrolled more than 2,000 students and now with the Government’s tuition fee free policy, the school was expecting an increase with this year’s enrolment.
“That would mean an increased workload for teachers who had been teaching in overcrowded classrooms,” he said.
The teacher-to-student ratio at the school has always been a challenge as Coronation is one of the city’s largest schools where a teacher can have up to 70 students in a class.
This year, he said the school’s administration would be tough with enrolment processes to address the issue of overcrowding in classrooms so that teachers could have a reasonable number of students to teach in a class.