SECOND SEMESTER KICKS OFF ON MONDAY, 27TH APRIL WITH ONLINE LECTURES
All 46 Public Colleges of Education are expected to reopen for academic work for the second semester of 2019/2020 academic year via interactive online platforms on Monday, 27th April, 2020.
In a statement released by the PRINCOF National President, Dr. Emmanuel Nyamekye, it stated that “Student teachers in the various Public Colleges of Education would hopefully, from April 27, 2020, when the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year begins, start learning at home via interactive apps”.
The statement explained that Colleges of Education are finding stop-gap solutions to continue teaching but the quality of learning is heavily dependent on the level and quality of digital access, ie PCs/Laptops/
“It is envisaged that our staff and students will make good use of, by patronizing, standard asynchronous online learning tools (such as reading material via Google Classroom), and other digital online platforms which would soon be rolled out for effective teaching and learning. This, for me, should become a prevalent and consequential trend to future teacher education in Ghana” the statement added.
Dr. Nyamekye in the statement released, acknowledged the efforts of staff working in the various Colleges of Education. He stated that “PRINCOF is especially appreciative of the contributions of staff; academic, complementary and ancillary”. He commended tutors who, for the last few days, are reorienting their approaches to teaching from face-to-face engagement to the delivery of lessons on virtual platforms. He indicated that he is grateful to all the staff who are working with might and main to assist in that process.
He also used the opportunity to call on Telco’s working in the Country to work towards reducing the cost of data to enable trainee teachers to get access to their online learning platforms easily.
Source: News Desk, Colleges of Education Weekly Journal.
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