NTC/GNACOPS/MoE develop training programme for private school teachers

The Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS) in collaboration with the National Teaching Council (NTC) under the auspices of the Ministry of Education has launched a training programme dubbed “Private School Teachers Continuous Professional Development (PST-CPD)”.

The programme is under the theme, “Preparing Private School Teachers Into The Teaching Profession Through Teacher Competency Training For Quality Teaching and Learning In Ghana”.

This initiative is aimed at preparing and promoting teacher professionalism in the private education sector, and therefore merit successful trainees a competency certificate duly recognize by the Ministry of Education and it’s Agencies.

As part of the implementation strategies , NTC is currently training 48 College of Education tutors, at Atomic Energy Commission in Accra, who would then be deployed to 24 leaning centers created across the country to delivery this bespoke training modules.

The Ministry of Finance, and for that matter, the government of Ghana through the National Training and Retraining Programme of the Ghana Covid-19 Alleviation and Revitalization of Enterprises and Support (Ghana CARES “OBAATAN PA”) Programme has decided to absorb all the financial components of this training.