17/06/2024
The Ghana Education Service (GES) is set to deploy guidance and counselling personnel to Junior High and Senior High Schools to prepare and educate students ahead of the full rollout of the new curriculum for secondary education in the country.
The new standard-based curriculum is expected to be implemented in the next academic year and will provide SHS students with a more flexible and personalised learning experience.
Speaking to JoyNews' Emefa Apawu on The Probe, the Director General of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), Prof Edward Appiah said plans are far advanced.
"GES is moving all their guidance and counselling staff who are in the classroom. Now they will be focusing on these activities and they will be having their offices in the schools to guide the children. Of course, the teachers will also help with that.
"We want to even start from JHS 3 so that the children going to SHS 1 will at least have an idea," he said.
Speaking on the availability of teaching and learning materials for the curriculum, Prof. Appiah assured the materials would be made available before full implementation.
"NaCCA, our mandate is to assess and approve textbooks, we don't develop textbooks. However, knowing that this is a new curriculum, we had to develop resource materials for the schools and the learners.
"For the teachers, we are done. I have told you about the teacher manual. So each manual for each subject," he explained.
