‘Prepare teachers for implementation of new curriculum’

The deputy Director in charge of Monitoring and Supervision at the Tema Metro Education Directorate, Mrs Theresa Tetteh, has charged schools to prepare their teachers adequately to enhance the smooth implementation of the new Standards-Based Curriculum for primary schools.

She said with every teacher's readiness to learn and apply the new curriculum, success would be achieved as government puts in the right measures for a successful implementation of the programme.

Mrs Tetteh said the government had written the vision of the new curriculum so it was now up to all stakeholders to take it up and work with it.

She was speaking at the 10th graduation ceremony of the Queens Court School last Saturday, in Tema.

Standards-Based Curriculum

In his third State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday, February 21 this year, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced that government would introduce a new Standards-Based Curriculum to be rolled out from Kindergarten to Primary Six by September 2019.

Throwing more light on the programme, Mrs Tetteh said the Standards-Based Curriculum, which would focus on Literacy, Numeracy and Creativity, driven by Information Technology, would be rolled out to replace the Objective-Based Syllabus which was currently being used.

"The review of the curriculum was in conformity with the national priority of moving away from the mere passing of examinations to building character, nurturing values and raising literate, confident and engaged citizens who could think critically," she explained.

She said to achieve that, there should be activity-based learning, learner-centred classrooms, teacher-centred schools, learning-centred pedagogy, and the use of ICT as a tool for learning and assessment.

Best practices

In a speech read on behalf of the Director of the school, Mrs Ivy Ahiabor, the Administrative Head of the Queens Court School, Mr Sylvanus Mude, advised the pupils to take their education seriously as they had serious roles to play in the future.

He also admonished Ghanaians to adopt best practices in all their endeavours and also pay the right taxes due the state so the country would be a better place to live in.

"If you are teaching, teach well, if you are a parent, it is your duty to nurture, educate and train your child to become a responsible adult," he added.

Graduation ceremony

In all, 154 pupils graduated with 64 graduating from Kindergarten 2A & 2B, 58 from Primary 6A & 6B and 32 Junior High School (JHS) graduates.