The proposed Secondary Education Curriculum, according to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), was created to assist Ghana in reaping the benefits of the fourth industrial revolution.
According to Mrs. Rebecca Abu Gariba, Director of Corporate Affairs at NaCCA, the curriculum will aid in producing the necessary human resources required to contribute to the nation’s development.
She was addressing the leadership of unions in the Volta Region’s education sector during a stakeholder engagement in Ho.
“As much as we are Ghana, we live in a global village. So we have to make sure that the subjects that we give to our implementers will help us have graduates who are not only going to be local but ‘global’, which means local and international as well.
We are in the 21st century, why do you still want to continue with your old pack of subjects? You need to bring on board subjects that will make your learners be hands-on, to be able to use this creativity to create things”, she said.
According to her, 43 second-cycle schools are now experimenting with the Secondary Education Curriculum that was created and developed by local stakeholders, and the council is also asking stakeholders for suggestions and comments.
“We are piloting it to see how it will work. We come back with the suggestions and implementations after we have done what we call fidelity of implementation. We will bring what we collected from these 43 schools.
Additionally, Koase [Senior High Technical School] in Wenchi is one of the schools testing all 37 subjects on campus to make sure that a school can offer all the subjects in their current form or that it is not feasible. Thus, the purpose of this is to ensure that the curriculum would be feasible after it is completed, the speaker stated.
Mrs. Gariba went on to say that the curriculum is created to guarantee inclusive education, meaning that no kid is left behind. She also mentioned that the teaching resources and curriculum have been created to make it simple to work with pupils who have special needs.
The curriculum is created to help students develop the competence, character traits, and 21st-century skills that are necessary to live as responsible adults, pursue higher education, and find employment.
It allows students the freedom to choose and study things outside of their course of study in order to widen their perspectives.
At the beginning of the 2024–2025 academic year, the curriculum is anticipated to be implemented at Senior High, Senior Technical, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) schools across the country.
This would occur following the implementation of all recommendations and the curriculum’s transfer to the Ghana Education Service.
NaCCA has guaranteed that all curriculum resources will be made available to guarantee a smooth implementation.