The Ghana Education Service has been using a model curriculum for some time, but the necessary learning resources are still lacking.

This has sparked a lot of discussions on how this curriculum is being implemented in Ghana and around the world in the media. This curriculum was introduced a while back, but finding texts for primary schools to utilize in the classroom proved difficult.

This week;

The distribution of 3.7 million Transition to English (T2E) books and other instructional materials to primary schools in Ghana was led by the Honorable Minister for Education, Dr. Yaw Adutwum.

These textbooks are to be distributed to 11,000 schools to improve reading amongst pupils in lower to upper primary schools.

The materials were acquisitioned by the sponsorship of the USAID which was a part of a nine-year program to help the Education Ministry and the GES in fostering good English grades in Ghana.

The program which is a $96 million from USAID is focused on four key thematic areas namely;

●        T2E plus programme

●        Early grade reading

●        T2E phase one

●        National radio reading programme.  

       

The main goals of this initiative are to improve teaching and learning in Ghana, raise English literacy levels, and promote students' motivation to read and talk in classrooms there.

 

On Wednesday 30th August at Accra, the Minister Dr Yaw Adutwum made it known at the event that one of the ministry's key objectives is to make sure that basic schools have access to the required teaching and learning resources to establish a continuous pathway from early childhood to senior high and college levels. In his speech, he said; 

“These books are going to the public schools of our nation and this is how we bring an equitable educational system where those in the private sector get the opportunity but we don't leave out those in the public sector”.

“More have gone, some are on the way and today these ones are going to leave here for the classroom. When students return to school, they are going to see more textbooks”, he said.

 

In conclusion, the minister Dr. Yaw Adutwum appreciated the USAID’s partnership which has enhanced the bond between Ghana and the US and acknowledged how the US cares about Ghana