"Educational reforms are not limited to uniforms, the program" – NaCCA

General News of Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-04-16

The new Executive Secretary of the National Council of Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Mr. Prince Armah, revealed that the reforms underway in the field of education would not be limited to uniforms and modifications of the curriculum.

According to him, the reforms will include the development and expansion of infrastructure, as well as the improvement of the quality and well-being of teachers.

Some criticized the government's decision to revise basic school programs and change uniforms while ignoring basic educational needs.

In his show titled Point of View, Citi TV 's news show, Mr Armah said that all facets of the education sector would be taken into account.

"The education system has different parts and several reforms are under way. For example, you know that there is a GETFund loan, with about 500 million investments in university education, including infrastructure. It's just a side.

"It also comes with several other interventions from other sectors. Within education, to make it complementary, it is quite difficult to say that it must follow a linear progression. A must occur before B. It excludes each other. He can do many other things at the same time. "

"New program will make Ghanaian maths friendly"

He also badured that the new curriculum of the country's basic schools will change the teaching and learning of mathematics in schools.

According to Prince Armah, the new executive secretary of NaCCA, the new program has been designed to place Ghana among the countries that are good for mathematics around the world.

Teachers continue to call for the demystification of teaching and learning mathematics at school.

They also argue that the subject must be understood and taught in direct relation to the practical problems of the day.

Says Monday on the point of view, Mr. Prince Armah said: "Mathematics has been taught procedurally, algorithmically and informally, with only one answer. The approach taken by this program is therefore in the context of problem solving and research.

"We enable children to learn math more experientially, by researching and applying them to the everyday context. Over the years, the subject is so immutable and so far away. The purpose of this program is to make it more experiential and to connect the empirical world more to real number systems so that {students} do not have to imagine. Getting students to like observatory math is what we pointed out. With this program, we want to make Ghanaian maths friendly, "he added.

The new program

The new program is expected to come into effect from September 2019.

The country is in the process of revising education policy and curricula to make teaching and learning more effective.

In her state of the nation, President Nana Akufo-Addo said the new program will better prepare students to meet global challenges.

He added that the new program would aim to make Ghanaian children confident, innovative, creative thinkers, literate and complete patriotic citizens.

"Mathematics, science, reading, writing and creativity are therefore at the heart of this new program," he said.