The Head of Department in charge of Education and Professional Development at the Headquarters of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mr. Matthew Adjardjah has described the training workshop for Primary School Teachers ahead of the introduction of the new curriculum in 2019 as “Shambolic”.
According to him, some of the Resource Persons at the training workshop did not even understand the curriculum and he said Teachers should be given proper orientation on the new curriculum to clarify whether Textbooks are solely an ingredient that is required for the smooth implementation of the new curriculum.
Mr. Matthew Adjardjah said this in Asamankese when he joined the West Akyem branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) for its 2021 delegate’s conference.
The Ghana Education Service (GES), in collaboration with the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), in May 2019 organized a five-day program which is part of a series of training workshops for teachers on the standard-based curriculum.
The participants (master trainers), drawn from the GES, the NaCCA, and other sectors, later trained all 152,000 basic school teachers in the country before the curriculum is rolled out for the 2019/2020 academic year.
On the controversial textbooks titled “Golden History of Ghana BS 6 by Mercy Gyaa-Adiyiah and Golden English Basic 4”,
Mr. Matthew Adjardjah called on Teachers to contribute to the debate on issues about Education but they should base on facts and challenged them to visit National Council for Curriculum Assessment (NaCCA) website and read for clarification.
He expressed worry over the absence of laws to mandate NaCCA to stop people from writing controversial textbooks and selling them in the open market and added that NaCCA, per the Education Act, only approves Books that the state should buy for schools.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
