As follow up of the training on the Competency-Based Training approach in 2013/2014, Ghana Skills Development Initiative (GSDI) in collaboration with COTVET is currently providing a refresher training oriented towards the Proficiency II curriculum for selected teachers of the 17 TVET Training Providers.
The training focuses on the new role of teachers as facilitators and learner-centered facilitating methods to be used in the classroom, laboratories and workshops. Discussing criteria of a successful lesson, the participants are using the new Proficiency II unit specification to breakdown the learning content into a session planning and participants exercised the preparation of selected learning sessions applying the newly learned facilitating methods.
Main focus lies on participative and learner-centered facilitating methods to encourage the apprentices’ involvement and active learning. This ranges from individual research tasks, joint group work and problem solving up to learner-to-learner feedback through peer review. Applying learner-centered facilitating methods is even more important in the context of the Competency-Based Training (CBT) approach used in Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
First trainings of teachers for generic subjects have been conducted July to August 2015 with 75 participants from all participating TVET Training Providers in the three pilot-regions Greater Accra Region, Volta Region and Northern Region.
A corresponding training of teachers for trade subjects are currently ongoing with 42 participants from 11 TVET Training Providers in Greater Accra Region and Northern Region. Similar trainings are planned for approx. 30 participants for the remaining 5 TVET Training Providers to take place in Volta Region in November 2015.
