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GES develops manual for teaching Maths, Science

The Ghana Education Service (GES), with support from the Department for International Development (DFID), has developed a manual that is being used to build the capacities of teachers to apply a new child-centred approach to teaching Mathematics and Science through the use of work cards.

This became necessary after a study conducted by the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), aimed at knowing the capacities of teachers of Mathematics and Science showed that majority of the four-year trained female teachers, especially those in upper primary, were handicapped when it came to the teaching of the two subjects.

A one-year training programme was, therefore, organised to upgrade the skills of the teachers, especially the females, in the teaching of Mathematics and Science.

Dubbed "Maths and Science training for female teachers", the project was first implemented on a pilot basis in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, in 1999 and has since been extended to seven other regions in the country, including the Volta, Western, Central, Eastern and the Upper East regions.

The Upper West regional edition, which began in February and ended in July this year, attracted 50 participants, including 45 female and five male teachers.

The Officer in charge of Professional Development at GNAT, Rev. Vincent A. Addo, who carried out the training and briefed the Daily Graphic after the programme in Wa, the Upper West Regional capital, said it was aimed at training the teachers to understand how to manage the two subjects.

He added that it was also to build the interest of both teachers and pupils in the teaching and learning of Mathematics and Science.

The training, Rev. Addo said, facilitated the processes for this category of teachers to gain admission into tertiary institutions to upgrade themselves.

He appealed to the various district assemblies to support GNAT in carrying out the programme to equip teachers with more skills in the area of Science and Mathematics.

He said GNAT was challenged in terms of funding the programme and, therefore, support from the assemblies and other stakeholders would help extend the programme to teachers in other districts who were yet to receive the training.

A participant, Miss Ellen Boguo, expressed appreciation to GNAT for the programme and said teachers had over the years been using the traditional methods of teaching but the training made teaching less stressful and participatory.

She hoped that the new methods of teaching would rekindle the love of both teachers and school children for the two subjects.

By Chris Nunoo, Wa
Daily Graphic/graphic.com.gh/Ghana


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