Fifty Training Officers under the Ghana Education Service (GES) have met in Cape Coast to validate a Trainer’s Manual developed by the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
The Training Officers were sourced from selected Districts across eight Regions of Ghana including the Ashanti Region, Eastern Region, Volta Region and the Oti Region.
The other Regions are the Central, Greater Accra as well as the Western and the Western North Regions.
The one-day workshop organized by the UCC IEPA in collaboration with the Asia –Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU), afforded the GES designated Training Officers the opportunity to make inputs into the Global Citizenship Education Trainers’ Manual.
Global Citizenship Education (GCED) aims to empower learners of all ages to assume active roles, both locally and globally, in building more peaceful, tolerant, inclusive, and secure societies.
IEPA, in recent times have been collaborating with like-minded institutions to build the capacity of some educational stakeholders in Global Citizenship Education.
The new addition to IEPA’s effort at helping to integrate Global Citizenship Education into Ghana’s Education system is the development of a Global Citizenship Education Trainers’ Manual.
Addressing the media at the sidelines of the one-day workshop on why the manual was developed, Professor Bro. Michael Amakyi who is an Associate Professor at the UCC IEPA and one of the facilitators at the workshop said the IEPA working with Asia Pacific Centre for Education of International Understanding and other partners worked towards improving the use of a global citizenship education in our curriculum.
He said “So the IPA conducted a research and discovered that Ghana is already practicing global citizenship education, not as a single subject, but it cuts across various subject disciplines. So we said then how do we make sure that we are feeling the impact of global citizenship education? So IEPA then picked four teams that are very important to promoting global citizenship education. And with these four teams IEPA has developed a training manual to help district training officers to go out there and train our young learners to understand and appreciate what it meant by global citizenship education.”
As such he stated that the workshop is relevant and the validation of the manual will help prepare the final draft to help the training officers in the various districts and municipal offices to train children.
“And we’ll start the training beginning January 2024” he continued.
Meanwhile, Mr Richard Feli, a Training Officer for Catholic Education Unit, Volta and Oti Regions tells ATL FM NEWS the involvement of the Training officers in the validation process has been of great benefit to him.
He is especially thankful for the ideas from training officers of diverse backgrounds adding that “these things need resources to carry them out. So it shouldn’t be a night-day wonder. The resources that will make us carry out this project to its successful end, we pray that it comes with it.”
The Municipal Director of Education for Effia Kwesimintsim, Madam Catherine Biney is also optimistic that the development of the manual accompanied with the workshop will go a long way to help educators effectively integrate into their teaching the core competencies of Ghana’s present school curriculum.
To her these core competencies will build learners character and also nurture them with skills that need to be imbibed in them to enable them become useful citizens for Ghana.
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Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
