GES to roll out PLC sessions nationwide ahead of new secondary education curriculum

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has initiated plans for the roll out of Professional Learning Community (PLC) sessions across all Senior High Schools (SHS) and Senior High Technical Schools (SHTS) in Ghana.

This is targeted at strengthening teachers’ understanding and adherence to the National Teachers’ Standards (NTS) and getting them ready for the introduction of the new secondary education curriculum which will be rolled-out in the 2024/25 academic year.

A 100-member National Training Team (NTT) made up of representatives of GES, T-TEL, Senior High Schools, and Colleges of Education have gone through a five-day training to ensure an effective institutionalization and roll-out of the PLC sessions in 726 schools.

According to GES “These weekly PLC sessions have been piloted by GES since 2022 in 12 SHS and SHTS using structured handbooks developed in partnership with the National Teaching Council (NTC)”.

The training was led by GES with support from Professor Jonathan Fletcher, Key Advisor for Teaching and Learning Partnerships at T-TEL.

“Through these sessions, we hope to support teachers to make learning enjoyable, recognising the individual differences of learners and helping them to develop themselves, regardless of their challenges in learning,” Professor Fletcher said.

These weekly PLC sessions, facilitated by trained teachers within each school is to ensure that all teachers are familiar with the National Teachers’ Standards (NTS) and are able to incorporate concepts related to Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI), Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) in their classrooms.

Mr. Robin Todd, the Executive Director of T-TEL, emphasised that the success or otherwise of the new secondary education curriculum hinges to a large extent on the effective implementation of weekly PLC sessions in schools with the support of the training teams.

Source: Ghananewsonline.com.gh