The National Teaching Council (NTC) and the Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) are working in partnership to provide training for 2,000 private schools teachers across the country.
Dubbed the Private School Teacher Continuous Professional Development (PST-CPD), the initiative is being sponsored by the Ministry of Finance through the Obaatam Care Programme. It forms part of the government’s efforts to license teachers across the country.
Speaking at the launch of PST-CPD, the Registrar of the National Teaching Council (NTC), Dr Christian Addai-Poku, said the programme formed the basis of training unqualified teachers to equip them with the best practices on how to teach literacy and numeracy, among other things.
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The beneficiaries would be issued with temporary licences which would qualify them to be in the classroom while they wait for the processes leading to obtaining full licences.
“Over the year, our education system has leveraged the readiness and availability of non-professional teachers to deliver education in the country and the government is working hard to close the gap of qualified teachers in both private and public school,” he stated.
Dr Addai-Poku said the programme was to equip and train 48 master trainers who would go across the country and train other private school teachers to acquire the basic skills that would help them to efficiently handle their classes.
Important
“It is important to note that this training, as important as it is, does not guarantee participants the licence to teach and it is NTC’s requirement that all in-service teachers in both private and public schools undertake parodic training to ensure quality delivery of lessons to learners.
“It requires that teachers both private or public schools undergo continuing professional development programmes to update their knowledge and skills to confirm to the changing body of knowledge and skills, curricula and new policies in education,” he stated.
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For his part, the Executive Director of GNACOPS, Mr Enoch Kwasi Gyetuah, said the facilitators, who would be giving tuition to the master trainers, were drawn from the University of Cape Coast and also from all teacher training colleges across the country.
He thanked NTC for its continuous support of ensuring that private education in Ghana took shape.
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He said the PST-CPD was not going to target only teachers but also looked at positioning school proprietors adding that after four days of intensive training, the master trainers would be sent out to train all private school teachers who wanted to upgrade and remain in the class room.
Source:Graphic.com.gh