Teacher Training Association Of Ghana

TEACHER TRAINING ASSOCIATION OF GHANA

In the early 1990s teacher trainees forged to form the Teacher Trainees‘ Association of Ghana (TTAG).

This attempt faced stiff opposition from college authorities. Some employed all kinds of strategies before its germination. Apparently, their contention was that such a union formed will make colleges of education, the then teacher training college ungovernable.

This notwithstanding, as also said by Nathanael Greene that ―we fight, we get beat, arise and fight again‖ between the end of the 1994/95 and the beginning of the 1995/96 academic year, the ground became fertile for the formation of TTAG.

 

Inauguration 

Subsequently, the association was officially inaugurated colorfully on 3rd February 1996 at the Presbyterian College of Education by Mrs Elizabeth Addabor, the then director of the Teacher Education Division of the Ghana Education Service.

Mrs Addabor is equally on record to have offered her unflinching support to the founding fathers of the association.

It is worthy of notice that before TTAG was inaugurated, teacher trainees in the three Northern Region had a union called Association of Teacher Training Colleges in the Northern Sector (ATTRICONS).

Motto and Slogan

TTAG has its motto as ―a model for development‖ with the slogan 

TTAG – We mean well!

Its logo id the resemblance of ―Nyansapo‖ a store of Knowledge as the Akan tradition signifies that teachers are intelligent folks.

The pentagonal shape of the logo also shows the five administrative sectors of the association, which comprises Colleges in Ashanti and Brong – Ahafo (ASHBA), the three Northern Regions (ATTRICONS) Volta Region (Volta), Eastern and Greater Regions (EAGA), Western and Central Region (WEC).

First Constitution

In 2001 at the 6th Annual Delegates‘ Congress at St. John Bosco College, Navrongo, congress then approved a written document as the association‘s constitution.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

  1. To champion the cause of Teacher Trainees in Ghana.
  2. To promote co-operation, understanding and friendship among students of the colleges of education in Ghana and other students‘ bodies both in Ghana and abroad so far as their aims and objectives of such bodies do not conflict with those of TTAG
  3. To promote high academic, professional and moral standard among Trainees
  4. To encourage social programmes among Teacher Trainees.
  5. To serve as the mouthpiece of Teacher Trainees.
  6. To assist the authorities of Colleges of Education in Ghana to develop the College and help find solutions to problems as and when they arise
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