MoE launches pedagogy training for untrained NSS teachers
The Ministry of Education on November 30, 2022, launched pedagogy training as part of an effort to equip unprofessional national service personnel posted to public schools to do national service with essential teaching skills.
According to the Education Minister, Dr Osei Adutwum, the training aims to ensure that national service personnel deployed to classrooms for their mandatory one-year service enter the classroom with some basic teaching skills.
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Mr Adutwum at the launch indicated that about 5,000 of the approximately 41,000 service personnel posted to teach by the National Service Scheme to work as teachers have no training in pedagogy or education.
“Every year the National Service Secretariat posts approximately 41,000 service personnel to work as teachers. Whilst around 36,000 of these personnel are graduates of Bachelor of Education degree courses from Colleges of Education and Universities there are still almost 5,000 personnel who have received no training in pedagogy or education who are posted to teach,” he said.
The introduction of this pedagogy training the Minister in charge of Education said will ensure that the National Teaching Council equips personnel with the requisite skills needed to teach throughout their one year of service.
The pedagogy module was designed by the National Teaching Council, the National Service Scheme (NSS), the Ghana Education Service (GES), the Ghana TVET Service, and other agencies under the Ministry of Education.
The launch was themed “Enhancing the Capacity of Personnel to Improve Learning Outcomes”. Present at the pedagogy training launch were the Chief of Staff, Hon Akosua Frema Osei-Opare and other stakeholders.
In other news, the Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Assibey Antwi has said plans are underway for the one-year mandatory period service personnel use to do their national service to be reviewed.
In an interview monitored by AcademicWeek.com, Mr Osei Assibey Antwi said his outfit in due course will submit a report of their assessment of the NSS Act to the management of the Ghana National Scheme for consideration.
“The Act previously mandated service personnel to serve for two years but was later reverted to one year. We are currently working on a proposal on the year’s personnel to use for national service,” the NSS Executive Director stated.