Deputy Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Nathalia |Goagoses has called on teachers in the Erongo Region to be extraordinary this year.

|Goagoses says teachers should transform their teaching methods in order to achieve better academic results.

The Deputy Minister addressed education stakeholders in the Erongo Region, who convened at Swakopmund to develop a plan following the dismal academic results of 2022.

Nathalia |Goagoses told the audience that she was an underqualified teacher in the 1980s who managed to transform a failing Windhoek school.

|Goagoses, called on teachers to make sacrifices as she did for the academic improvement plan to work.

"We shall have to declare ourselves during this revival year as extraordinary school leaders and school teachers. Not just a principal. We cannot just be ordinary principals, ordinary teachers, and ordinary HoDs. We shall transform ourselves to become extraordinary in the teaching fraternity, we don't sleep! 8 o'clock, and 7 o'clock were the times that I reached my house. I did not sleep."