GNACOPS, NTC Launches  Private School Teachers  Continuous Professional  Development 

Ghana National Council Of Private Schools GNACOPS in partnership with the National Teaching Council and with support from the government today launched Private School Teachers Continuous Professional Development  PST-CPD in Accra.

The launch was on the theme; Preparing 

Private School Teachers into the Teaching Profession through Teacher Competency Training for Quality Teaching and Learning in Ghana.

The Ministry of Finance under Ghana Cares Obaatanpa program and in collaboration with National Teaching Council is poised to equip private School Teachers to become more competent in their teaching job.

The 4-Day Training of Trainers ToT workshop is targeted at some Forty- Eight 48 Master Trainers who will, in turn, replicate similar training to a total of Two-Thousand  2000 Private School Teachers across the length and breadth of the country.

In a speech delivered by the Special Guest for the occasion who doubles as the registrar for National Teaching Council NTC, Dr. Christian Addae Opoku disclosed that the ToT workshop has become necessary because the aim is to ensure that Ghanaian Teachers attain the highest level of professionalism that is comparable to any nation globally. 

He however hinted that those who are not able to position themselves to conform to this new dispensation will have to find their way out very shortly.

He was however quick to add that, the  NTC will not lay such people off but rather offer support to aid such teachers to gain qualifications.

 We are going to support the private schools to upgrade themselves to be able to get to the level that NTC can recognize them as professional Teachers, he stressed

He seized the opportunity to urge all participants to put themselves in readiness for the ToT workshop.

This training will form the basis of a final training of unqualified Teachers aimed at equipping them. This will be a pilot training for NTC and if this training goes on well, we envisage that, shortly, it will become the basis for the issuance of temporary licenses to unqualified Teachers, he added.

For his part, National Executive Director for GNACOPS, Mr. Enoch Kwasi Gyentuah disclosed that 24 training centers have been designated for the 4- Day weekend training.

 He stated that the ToT will focus mainly on numeracy, Literacy, and Educational Governance. He also disclosed that the team will also give similar training to proprietors of private schools.

According to him, the participants have been selected from institutions such as the colleges of education across the country.

In an interview with the media, one of the facilitators in charge of the literacy aspect of the program Mr. Seth Kofi Nti a lecturer at the University of Cape-Coast UCC disclosed that the participants will be taken through some basic English grammar writing comprehension skills so that they become more equipped whiles teaching students.

Mr. Nti disclosed that there might be some gaps in what these private Teachers do,  we will by this training, fill those gaps that they become more competent in the lesson delivery in their respective classes and schools.

According to Mr. Kofi Nti, the modules have been divided into units therefore, at the end of each unit, the participants will be tasked to demonstrate what they have learned to ensure they fully understand what has been taught.