UAE funds 3-year training program for teachers in Ghana

General News of Sunday, June 9, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-06-09

Dubai Cares, a member of the UAE's Global Initiatives group, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced funding for a three-year teacher training program in Ghana to modernize the country's infrastructure. Kindergarten teaching and allowing KG schoolchildren to flourish in primary school.

The program, valued at US $ 469,000, is in partnership with Saber Education and is expected to directly benefit 7,420 teachers and 7,700 kg of schoolchildren aged 4-6 indirectly in the central and western parts of the country.

Dubai Cares support aims to improve initial teacher education in Ghana by building on five years of successful implementation and replication of Saber Education's accelerated transformational training program in the central and western parts of the country. Ghana.

The program also aims to improve existing kindergarten clbadrooms through teacher training and learning resources, converting them into model clbadrooms for KG1 and KG2. In addition, the program aims to promote sustainability by giving teacher training institutes and the Ghana Education Service the means to continue to support and monitor newly qualified teachers.

Annina Mattsson, Director of Programs at Dubai Cares, commented on the launch of this new program: "Ghana is a great example of how investing in education can positively improve the overall picture. One country: Thanks to increased government spending, the country has experienced strong economic growth, growth over the last two decades, fueled by a better educated and more mobile workforce, aspiring for better employment prospects in a more diversified economy that has seen the country's poverty rate halved over the same period.

"With its new program, Dubai Cares is supporting the Ghanaian government's priority for early childhood education as a major contributor to the long-term development of children and strengthening the training framework for newly qualified teachers. our partnership with Saber Education, we want to contribute to the development of KG education system in Ghana and help to empower future generations. "

Dominic Bond, CEO of Saber Education, said, "At Saber Education, we are building a reputation as an early childhood specialist, creating insightful, evidence-based teacher education programs that have evolved over time. more than ten years of close collaboration with Government of Ghana.

He added that the accelerated Transformative Teacher Training Program is globally recognized as an integrated approach to systemic change that tackles inequalities in the education of 4 and 5 year old Ghanaian girls and boys and encourages active and play-based learning as the foundation of the 21st year. skills of the century. "