Improper curriculum introduction at the JHS is a big flaw -Hon Jerry Akporhor

The new Common Core Programme curriculum introduced at the JHS is expected to help learners acquire core competencies and standards. Currently, the implementation of the CCP is leaking, shaky, and worrying for several reasons, one of which is the lack of training for teachers by the GES.
Hon Jerry Akporhor shares more concerns are he throws more light on some of the inefficacies teachers and the JHS students are battling with.
He writes…
I am still not comfortable with the one leg here, one leg there kind of curriculum introduced at the JHS.
Children are supposed to be taken through what is called “Standards-based curriculum SBC” from KG to basic six.
This SBC is targeted at achieving some critical core competencies and standards which according to our research people, is what we need to achieve the socio-economic transformation agenda. Solid.
They are to proceed to JHS where they are to be taken through what is christened the “Common core Program CCP”. This CCP is developed to be taught within four years.
Thus, according to our current school structure, they do three years in JHS and the rest of the one year in SHS1. After, completing the CCP, they take an exam called common core Exams. The outcome, they say would help learners choose a carrier path.
Now, my first concern is that the CCP outlines yet other important and critical common core competencies and standards that every child is expected to have if we have to develop holistically. And we all know how difficult it is for students a good number of students to transcend the barriers militating against the entry to SHS despite the fact that it’s now free.
Why don’t we make JHS Education four years rather so that the CCP is fully completed before they go to the senior high school? With this, those who have no interest in furthering to SHS will also experience and acquire these critical competencies in full.
Again, writing BECE at JHS three and writing common core Exams at SHS One makes no logical sense. I thought we said we are moving away from the excessive obsession with exams? Or
What happens after the CCP is a topic to be discussed another day. If we want to turn our fortunes around with change, we must do it well lest we achieve nothing.
Hon Jerry Akporhor _ Lead Educator _
Informed Teachers Network