Teachers Parliament

For Immediate Release: To All Media Houses.

DECLARATION OF INDEFINITE STRIKE

In an emergency National Council meeting of the Colleges of Education Teachers' Association of Ghana (CETAG) on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, the National Council unanimously agreed to embark on an indefinite strike across all forty-six (46) Ghanaian public Colleges of Education effective Thursday, January 6, 2022.

The indefinite industrial action is grounded on the following:

1 Failure by the Government to implement the 2017-2020 Conditions of Service as agreed.

2 CETAG and Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on September 24, 2021, after reaching agreements on 2017-2020 Conditions of Service (COS) for members of the Association.

3 The said (MoU) states the effective date of implementation as January 1, 2021, while

payment of associated arrears of nine (9) months was to be paid in October, November,

and December 2021.

By this release therefore, the Association's National Council has resolved to follow through with its decision to withdraw TEACHING, one of its main duties, as stipulated in the Harmonised Conditions for Colleges of Education effective Thursday, January 6, 2022. The National Council would like to use this opportunity to entreat all CETAG members to comply with this directive until further notice.

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The Director-General, GTEC

The President, PRINCOF

All Local & Zonal Branches, CETAG

*For Headteachers and Basic 4 Teachers 🤪🤪*

*NATIONAL STANDARDIZED TEST REGULATIONS, SCHEME OF EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE QUESTIONS EFFECTIVE, 2021*

THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ACCRA

REGULATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL STANDARDIZEDTEST (NST)

*INTRODUCTION*
Ghana’s recent Education Strategic Plan, 2018-2030 seeks to:

improve equitable access to and participation in inclusive quality education at all levels.
improve quality of teaching and learning and STEM at all levels.

promote sustainable and efficient management, financing and accountability of education service delivery.

Among the off shoots of the Plan is the introduction of the National Standardized Test (NST) which is to measure the learning outcomes of the educational reform at the basic level. Data collected from the NST would inform policy review and formulation with respect to classroom teaching and learning.

This booklet contains the Regulations, Schemes of Examination and Sample questions for the subjects of the NST that will be taken in Ghana with effect from 2021. The Regulations are meant to guide teachers and learners preparing for the examination.

The Test will be administered to learners in Primary Four (4) at the Basic level. The test will find out the extent to which learners have covered the content of the teaching curricula approved by the Ministry of Education in Ghana. The assessment will measure pupils’ performance in English and Mathematics and will seekto answer the questions;

“Are learnersachieving a minimum competency or proficiency in English and Mathematics?”
“How are learners performing in English and Mathematics as a whole on a national basis?”
Learners going to take the test are expected to acquaint themselves thoroughly with the regulations since they form the basis for taking the test.

*GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE TEST*

Entry for the Test

The National Standardized Test will be administered to all learners in Primary Four (4) at the Basic level. It is open to all Public Primary Schools that are duly recognized by the Ministry of Education in Ghana.

Heads of School or their representatives are expected to register testees based on official entry documents/guidelines provided by the West African Examinations Council. The generation of index numbers for thetest would be done electronically.

It is the responsibility of schools to check the correctness of entries made in respect of their candidates.

Materials to be Provided to Testees
Testees will be provided with pencils and erasers for the Test. They are required to shade their answers with pencils.

Issue of Results

The results of the test will be communicated to Metropolitan, Municipal and District officers of the GES, participating Schools and other stakeholders by NaCCA.

*THE CONDUCT OF TESTEES IN THE EXAMINATION HALL*

Supervision of the Test
The test shall be under the control of the Supervisor who shall be responsible to the Council for the proper conduct of the test.

The Supervisor will be required to carry out the detailed instructions sent to him with reference to the conduct of the test at the centre. These relate to the distribution of test papers to testees, the collection of scripts at the end of each period, and their despatch to the Council in accordance with the Council’s directives and the maintenance of constant and effective supervision over the testees. It should be ensured that (as much as possible) testeesdo independent work.

Instructions to Testees

Testees should obey all instructions given by the Supervisors and Invigilators. In particular, they must enter and leave the hall when told to do so.

Testees should not give or receive any assistance in answering the test questions.
Testees should not talk to other testees inside the examination hall.

Testees should not tear any part of their questions papers and answer sheets or answer booklets.

Testees must stop work when they are told to do so and must always hand over their answer scripts or answer booklets and question papers to the Supervisors/Invigilators at the end of the test.

Testees should not remove any answer booklet or paper from the examination hall. Test papers remain the property of the Council.

*SUBJECTS FOR THE TEST*
The following subjects shall be available to testees taking the National Standardized Test (NST) for Primary 4 pupils from 2021.

Subjects for the test are:
English Language
Mathematics

*STRUCTURE AND SCHEME OF THE EXAMINATION*

*ENGLISH LANGUAGE*
This will be a multiple-choice objective test consisting of 35 questions to be answered in one hour and fifteen minutes. The test will be made up of 4 sections; Listening Comprehension, Reading Comprehension, Grammar and Writing.

Section A – Listening Comprehension
It will consist of 8 questions. A passage will be read out to the testees after which,the testees would be expected to answer the questions.

Section B – Reading Comprehension
It will consist of 13 questions. It will cover the various strands in the Reading Comprehension Section of the English Language curriculum.

Section C– Grammar
It will consist of 11 questions. It will cover the various strands in the Grammar Section of the English Language curriculum.

Section D– Writing
It will consist of 3 questions. It will cover the various strands in the Writing Section of the English Language curriculum.

STRUCTURE AND SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
*MATHEMATICS*

This will be a multiple-choice objective test consisting of 35 questions. The questions will be drawn from the entire curriculum and the testees will be expected to answer them within one hour and fifteen minutes.The questions would be selectedfrom the four domainsin the Primary 4 curriculum as follows:

Number– 6
Algebra – 12
Geometry &Measurement – 10
Data – 7

*CAGD has deducted Teacher laptop=¢509.55*
*NTC Teacher License Fee=¢100.00*
*TOTAL=¢609.55*

*Though November e-payslip is not available now,you can go to wrongful deductions.*

*Check month(November)*
*and type year (2021).*

*All deductions will show up.*

*Thanks.*

Why was the PDA Taxed? An oversight? Lets see how the unions will react!

Why were the newly trained teachers deducted for the laptop cost? Contempt of court? Lets see how it unfolds

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF JUDICATURE IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE ACCRA GREATER ACCRA ACURA

PLAINTIFFS/RESPONDENTS

1.INNOVATIVE TEACHERS
2. ALL TEACHERS ALLIANCE GHANA

VRS.
DEFENDANTS/APPLICANTS

1. KA TECHNOLOGIES GHANA LIMITED
2. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
3. GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE (G.E.S.)
4. MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

(ALL OF ACCRA PLAINTIFF SHALL DIRECT SERVICE)

MOTION ON NOTICE FOR INTERLOCUTORY INJUNCTION PURSUANT TO ORDER 25 RULE 1 (1) OF C1.47.

Motion on Notice by Kwaku O. Anim-Addo, Esq., counsel for the Plaintiffs/Applicants praying the Honourable Court for an order for Interlocutory Injunction restraining the Defendants, their agents, successors, assigns, service men, workmen and all persons claiming through them from awarding or entering into a contract of selling or distributing laptop computers and/or in any way' dealing with or interfering with any contract of selling or distributing laptop computers under the one teacher one laptop computer programme pending the final determination of this suit, in terms of the accompanying affidavit.

And any other order(s) that to this Honourable Court may seem fit.

Court to be moved on the 24th day of November, 2021 at 9 O'clock in the forenoon or so soon thereafter as Counsel for the Plaintiff/Applicant may be heard.

DATED AT NYAME ADOM CHAMBERS ADUM KUMASI THIS 25TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 2021.

SOLICITOR FOR PLAINTIFF/APPLICANT Lawyer's current License /21 Chambers Registration No: ePPO0765/20

THE REGISTRAR HIGH COURT ACCRA-GREATER ACCRA