The Pedagogy Training for Untrained Teachers on the National Service Scheme (NSS) Teaching Module has been launched by the Chief of Staff, Hon Akosua Frema Osei-Opare and Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Education minister.
The launch was themed “Enhancing the Capacity of Personnel to Improve Learning Outcomes”.
The module, which is the first of its kind, is aimed at ensuring that National Service Personnel (NSP) deployed to classrooms for their mandatory one-year service enter the classroom with some basic teaching skills.
Every year the National Service Secretariat (NSS) posts approximately 41,000 service personnel to work as teachers.
Whilst around 36,000 of this personnel are graduates of Bachelor of Education degree courses from Colleges of Education and Universities, there are still almost 5,000 personnel who have received no training in pedagogy or education who are posted to teach.
The introduction of this pedagogy training will ensure that the National Teaching Council equips NSP with the requisite skills needed to teach throughout their one year of service.
Dr Osei Adutwum congratulated the National Teaching Council, the National Service Scheme, the Ghana Education Service and the Ghana TVET Service and other agencies under the Ministry of Education for collaborating to design and implement such an innovative and transformative programme and I entreat our service personnel to take this exercise very seriously.
He was happy that everything initiated at the Education Ministry is focused on laying a solid foundation for the socio-economic transformation of our country.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
