Improving learning outcomes shared responsibility — Afrikids Country Director
Improving teaching and learning outcomes, especially in basic schools is a shared responsibility of all actors, the Country Director of Afrikids Ghana, David Pwalua, has said.
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“For teaching and learning to improve, we have to move away from the usual blame game and identify the causes of the poor performance of the schools and tackle them head-on,” he stressed.
Launch
He was speaking in an interview with the media at the launch of the USAID/Ghana Strengthening Accountability in Ghana’s Education System (SAGES) activity project in Bolgatanga.
It is designed to support the Ministry of Education to operationalise Ghana’s education accountability framework.
The five-year project, worth $ 60 million, is being implemented in the Northern, North-East, Upper East and Upper West regions.
In the Upper East, the project is being implemented by Afrikids Ghana, a child rights organisation in four beneficiary areas notably the Bawku West, Garu and Tempane districts and the Bawku Municipality.
He noted that it had always been the vision of the organisation to improve learning outcomes for schoolchildren to enable them to excel in their academic pursuits, saying “We will work closely with the offices of the Ghana Education Service (GES) to identify the challenges and address them accordingly.
“Significantly, we will bring communities closer to the schools since monitoring and accountability is a shared responsibility,” he said, adding “Our role will be to mobilise the actors to identify the teething challenges and begin to tackle them holistically”.
He noted that for the next five years, the organisation was confident that at the end of the project, there would be a tremendous improvement in the quality of teaching and learning outcomes in the beneficiary schools.
Manifestation
Launching the project, the Agreement Officer’s Representative, USAID/SAGES activity, Paul Napari, said the SAGES activity was a manifestation of the United States’ commitment to supporting the government of Ghana to achieve its education goals over the next five years.
He used the opportunity to commend the Ministry of Education for its vision to improve students learning performance through increased education accountability, stressing “To improve classroom instruction, there must be trained teachers, dedicated supervisors, adequate teaching and learning among others”.
“I am confident that this SAGES activity will make a significant and lasting impact on Ghana’s education development trajectory to turn our collective vision into a reality,” he said.
Training
For his part, the Deputy Chief of Party, USAID/SAGES Systems Strengthening Activity, Mohammed Amin Dawuda, said teachers would be adequately trained to be able to teach better in the classroom.
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