The latest update for teachers on Lesson plan preparation: GES approves Electronically Prepared Lesson Plans For Vetting
Electronically prepared Lesson Plans by teachers have been declared legal. This all-important decision was communicated to teachers via a press release on 21st February 2021.
In the statement, the GES disclosed the electronic submission of lesson notes by teachers should be received and vetted. This means teachers can submit soft copies of their weekly lesson plans or get them printed or manually write and submit them.
This brings to an end the end to decades of the reign of handwritten notes, which are time-consuming to prepare.
”At a discussion with the teacher unions, the consensus was that for now, the system should be made as flexible as possible” The Press Statement indicated.
The caveat of the press release is that the preferred option should be agreed on by both parties (Teachers and Heads or SISOs) and that the agreed option shall be deemed to be officially acceptable.
READ: Teachers, It’s Now Official: Lesson Notes Can Be Electronically
Teachers can now submit electronically prepared lesson plans without the need to recopy them into lesson plan notebooks supplied to them.
In a related development, Ghanaeducation.org called on the GES earlier in the year to deal with the challenge by coming out with a press release. The concerns of teachers were articulated in “Handwritten lesson note: Save teachers the stress with a Press Release”
This means the preferred option agreed on by both parties would be officially acceptable. That is, it should be based on an agreement between the teacher and his or her supervisor. Thus, where both teacher and the supervisor agree that it should be prepared and submitted electronically, it should be allowed. Where it cannot be transmitted electronically, a printout of the typed lesson notes should be submitted for vetting and approval.
Where for any valid reason, it cannot be prepared electronically, it should be done manually, based on an agreement between the parties.
The Ghana Education Service has shown leadership by releasing this all-important statement which recognizes scripted or soft copies of lesson plans.
READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE BY GES
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