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GNAT cautions government against rushing proposed standard-based curriculum

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has cautioned government against rushing to implement the proposed standards-based curriculum until implementers and stakeholders have been thoroughly sensitised.

This is because, if properly implemented, the new curriculum would go a long way to address the shortfalls in the educational system and eliminate the “chew and pour” method, which had characterised the country’s educational system.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo–Addo in his state of the nation address on February 21, 2019 announced that Ghana would in September 2019, roll out a new standards-based curriculum from kindergarten to Class six in primary schools intended to make Ghanaian school children well-rounded and creative thinkers.

But GNAT insist that it was imperative for the government to organise series of training workshops to get teachers who were the key implementers as well as parents and all stakeholders to thoroughly understand the concept of the new curriculum before it is rolled out.

Head of Professional Development Unit of GNAT, Mathew Adjarjah, gave the caution at a two-day Curriculum and Assessment Training Workshop in Cape Coast for 130 selected Subject Teachers, drawn from the Western, Central and Ashanti regions.

According to Mr Adjarjah, the review of the country’s educational curriculum was long overdue because the global accepted practice demands that educational curriculum must be reviewed every decade.

Ghana’s curriculum therefore, needed to be reviewed to meet the changing trends across the globe. He debunked reports that teacher unions were not consulted on the review of the curriculum but said the consultations done were not exhaustive and adequate.

Mr Adjarjah indicated that the country was moving away from the objective base curriculum to a standard base one which emphasised on skills and values to fit perfectly into the needs of the society other than mere knowledge acquisition.

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