Ghana To Train 100,000 Teachers From Northern Sector In Digital Literacy

Ghana’s Deputy Minister for Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has hinted that the Education Ministry will from July this year begin the training of 100,000 public pre-tertiary teachers from the northern sector of this country in digital literacy.

The training which would be supervised by the National Teaching Council (NTC) would be executed by SteadyX, an international IT Consortium and it will equip the teachers with skills in teaching in a digital age, teaching with multimedia and cybersecurity among others.

Rev. Fordjour, disclosed this in an interview at the side-lines of the 50th anniversary, Speech and Prize Giving Day for Yendi Senior High School in the Northern region.

He stated that the training of 100 master trainers for the programme will begin on 30th May 2022 in Accra.

The Deputy Minister stated that President Nana Akufo-Addo-led government was poised in equipping teachers with the requisite skills to enhance their teaching skills to make them much more productive in their field.

Rev. Ntim Fordjour said, apart from the upcoming training for teachers from the northern sector, there has been several training for some teachers in the country as part of the gradual training of all teachers in the country.

He mentioned that the MoE and the NTC in collaboration with Commonwealth Learning (an International Intergovernmental Organisation solely concerned with the promotion and development of distance education and open learning) trained 1050 teachers across the country in digital literacy between May and June last year.

He added that Instil Education, another IT company which has targeted training 10,000 teachers in digital literacy between June and December this year has already trained 5500 teachers and 38 master trainers for the national training programme.

Rev.Ntim Fordjour revealed that under the Ghana Accountability of Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP), 43,000 teachers in the project schools have also been trained in digital literacy all geared towards ensuring that teachers in the country irrespective of location or status can make good use of IT in their teaching and learning experiences.

The Deputy Minister indicated that MoE and NTC have established a viable collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning which was ready to support the establishment of an Open University in Ghana.