The Ghana Education Service (GES) has announced plans
of procuring laptops for all pre-tertiary teaching staff of the Service to
support teaching and learning as they combine classroom and online lessons in
this covid-era
This will be
done in the hopes of facilitating teaching and learning as they will be
alternating between the classroom and online lessons.
Prof. Kwasi
Opoku-Amankwa, Director-General of GES wrote in a letter that the Government
has agreed to pay 70% of the cost while the individual teacher is to pay 30%.
According to
him, these amounts have been agreed upon in consultation with the Teacher
Unions.
The laptops are to be owned as personal assets of the individual teachers, and it is mandatory for each teacher since much of the materials for teaching will be uploaded on them.
Thus, to enhance the performance of teachers, the curriculum, Teachers’ Resource Pack, Continuous Professional Development (CPD), and Professional Learning Communities (PLC) modules, as well as the textbooks on core subjects will be pre-loaded on the laptop
The government has agreed to pay 70% of the cost while the individual teacher is to pay 30%. These amounts have been agreed upon in consultation with the Teacher Unions
He wrote
Although schools across the
country have resumed amid the pandemic, Ghanaian authorities seem to be putting
effective measures in place to render the academic year successful, while
controlling the spread of the virus simultaneously.
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