School for Life has been accredited by the National Teaching Council to run teacher continuous professional development programmes aimed at enhancing the professional development of teachers in the country.

Learning outcomes

Speaking at the training at Guhegu last Wednesday, the Northern Regional Coordinator of the E4L Programme, Wahabu Salam, said it would help improve teacher-pupil relationships and ultimately improve learning outcomes in the schools.

He explained that the TPD Model had several aspects, such as “Citizenship development where teachers instill active citizenship in their learners, reflective practice where teachers are taught to reflect on their lessons and see what goes wrong and what goes right, and relational competence, which is about how teachers can improve the relationship between them and their learners to enhance teaching and learning.”

“We started with eight schools in the four districts in the region. After two years, the model has achieved a lot in the eight schools,” Mr Salam said.

As a result, the model was expanded to cover 24 schools in the four districts. The last cohort of schools is currently undergoing initial training in the four districts in the Northern Region,” he added.

Mr Salam urged the teachers to replicate the knowledge acquired from the training in their classrooms for improved outcomes.

He also appealed to the facilitators and the beneficiary teachers to help create awareness amongst other teachers about the model, for them to also study and benefit from it, saying “The model is very good.

For resource constraints, we cannot cover every school. So, we want the teachers to transfer the knowledge to other teachers.”

Novelty

A Training Officer at the Gushegu Municipal Directorate of Education, Mohammed Yazidu, described the model as a novelty, as it would help teachers to deliver well in the classroom.

He urged the teachers and head teachers to be serious with the model, emphasizing, “We are going to award you certificates for promotion.

And so, it will help you not only in your lessons, but to have your certificates and use them to apply for promotions.”

He said the teachers could also apply for National Best Teacher awards because they had been taken through several trainings to make them deliver well in their classrooms.

A teacher from Bulugu E/A Primary School, Arahamatu Abdulai, lauded the training, saying, “This training will help me to teach very well.

It will help to promote my career.”

The E4L Programme, which is in its fifth phase, seeks to ensure that civil society organisations (CSOs) in northern Ghana contribute to improved resilience, equity and more accountable governance in the country.