A teacher at Association International School in Accra, Seth Abakah has been awarded a brand-new Tablet for winning the Instill Education Social Media Competition which targeted teachers from the three main countries of Instill’s operations - Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa.

Competing with more than 40,000 educators for the Ghana prize, Seth demonstrated prowess in social media engagements by sharing Instill Education’s posts.

He also motivated school leaders and classroom teachers to follow Instill Education for quality teacher professional development programmes which will build their competency in education service delivery.

Presenting the award to Seth at his school, the Country Lead for Instill Education in Ghana, Sarah Osei congratulated Mr. Abakah for demonstrating exceptional skills in completing modules from the Upskill platform, and also encouraging other teachers to build capacity for improved educational outcomes in Ghana.

Madam Osei underscored the relevance of improving teacher capacity and professionalism as the teacher remains a pivot around which any education enterprise revolves.

She said Instill Education and the Mastercard Foundation are supporting teachers in Ghana to build capacity toward improved learning outcomes for the needed socio-economic transformation.

The Ghana Country Lead for Instill Education indicated that “education in Africa faces an existential challenging crisis, and for that reason, Instill Education is re-imagining teaching and learning in every African classroom to address among other things, the 17 million teacher gaps projected by UNESCO for Sub-Sahara Africa by 2030”.

Receiving the prize, Mr. Abakah expressed gratitude to Instill Education for instituting great programmes that address the gaps in school leadership and teaching.

He said, “Instill Education is the best online professional career development programme I have so far encountered”.

He, therefore, called on his colleague teachers and school leaders to take advantage of Instill Education learning management system to improve their teaching competencies.

Commenting on the award, the Head of Association International School, Mrs. Audrey Doryumu, who actually introduced Mr. Abakah to the Upskill platform thanked Instill Education for the effort being made on the African continent to transform teaching and learning towards improved learning outcomes.

She urged other school leaders and teachers in Ghana to take advantage of this innovative learning platform to transform education.