Dr. Prince Hamid Armah speaking at the workshop
The Acting Director General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) Dr. Prince Hamid Armah, has said Ghana will soon produce a generation of globally competitive graduates with the implementation of the Common Core Programme (CCP).
The programme which is an extension of the Standards-Based curriculum is expected to completely overhaul the country’s education system and make it more responsive to the development needs of the country.
Dr Armah made these remarks during the opening of a five-day CCP curriculum workshop for Master Trainers the drawn from NaCCA, the GES, NTC, NaSIA, universities, colleges of education and other institutions.
The workshop which is being held in Accra and Larteh Akuapem will serve as a platform to train 254 subject and curriculum experts on the CCP curriculum.
A participant contributing to the discussion
These Master Trainers or experts from the Ghana Education Service (GES) and NaCCA, will in turn train about 100,000 Junior High School (JHS) teachers across the country before the CCP Curriculum begins in the next academic year.
With the implementation of this new curriculum, Dr Armah said the students will become more practical in their approach to studies and hopefully do away with the age-old canker of chew, pour, pass and forget.
He added that the curriculum has been carefully designed to equip young Ghanaians for further education and prepare them for the world of work.
Chief Director of the Ministry of Education (MoE), Benjamin Gyasi, said the new education reforms were necessary to achieve the Education Strategic Plan (ESP 2018 – 2030) which emphasizes the provision of quality education to every child.
He said the success of the new curriculum depends greatly on the mode of implementation, assuring that there will be an effective training regime nationwide so the teachers will be able to execute the curriculum to perfection.
On his part, the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES) Prof. Akwasi Opoku Amankwa said the gains associated with the implementation of the standards-based curriculum for KG to Primary six have been numerous.
Prof Opoku Amankwa explained that there was the need to ensure that the CCP curriculum is implemented in the next academic year to consolidate the earlier gains made in the first phase of implementation.
He charged all participants to be actively involved in the session since the success of the entire nationwide implementation depended heavily on their output as master trainers.
The workshop was also attended Prof Kwame Osei-Kwarteng, Chairman of the NaCCA Council, Catherine Pinkrah, Director Pre-Tertiary of the MoE, Patty Assan, Director Schools and Instruction of the GES and Cassandra Twum-Ampofo PRO of GES.
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri