By James Amoh Jnr, GNA
Tema, Nov. 29, GNA - Bornwin Foundation, a Community-Based Organization (CBO), has begun series of training to educate parents in Dade Agbo, Tema New Town on the new school curriculum introduced by Ghana Education Service (GES) in 2018/2019 academic year.
The training, supported by the SOS Children Villages, had the first batch of parents, numbering over 30, taken through the new curriculum for Kindergarten One to Primary Six pupils nationwide.
The new education curriculum is a shift from the objective-based curriculum to a standard-based curriculum which focuses on foundation skills for life-long learning.
This is a diversion from examination-centred learning to total development of the child.
Mr Joshua Agudah, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bornwin Foundation, speaking to the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the training, said the parents in the predominantly fishing community were unaware or lacked understanding of the new curriculum, hence the need to keep them abreast of the new arrangement.
He said, as a result of the significant shift away from cognitive development to one that nurtured values and built character; it had become seemingly difficult for a lot of unlettered parents to assist their wards with their homework and other assignments.
This, he added, necessitated the training to educate parents on how to effectively help their wards in researching with the internet for their school projects.
Mr Agudah said the foundation, which existed for four years was focused on youth empowerment and had over the period provided skills training, talent development and vocational training for some 46 young people in the community.
He explained that, education was a tool for the community out of poverty and said his foundation provided educational support to 23 brilliant, but needy pupils across the community.
Madam Sylvia Okaebae Essah, a resource person and kindergarten teacher, who took parents through the benefits of the new curriculum, said the new curriculum would help pupils to develop cognitively and physically.
The long-term benefits of the curriculum, she said, was to encourage pupils to learn actively to gain knowledge, values and skills necessary for them to lead better lives for societal and national development.
She charged the parents to as much as possible monitor their wards when they used the internet for their research work and said “records revealed that pupils resorted to watching pornographic materials instead of using the internet for their projects and the situation is worrying.”
Madam Essah said although implementation of the new curriculum started earnestly, schools were yet to receive text books to enhance teaching and learning.
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