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<\/p>\n\nDr Christian Addai Poku \u2014 Registrar, National Teaching Council <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The National Teaching Council (NTC) has said continuous professional development (CPD) is not a new policy being forced on teachers.<\/h2>\n
\u201cThe CPD is entrenched in section 60 of the new Education Regulatory Bodies Act 2020 (Act 1023).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe three recognised teacher unions; the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT),the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concern Teachers (CCT) have frequently been engaging the NTC and Ghana Education Service (GES) on the CPD framework. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey may still have issues with the implementation process but they are handling it maturely,\u201d the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the NTC, Dennis Osei-Owusu, told the Daily Graphic.<\/p>\n
Section 60 of the Act mandates NTC, “to develop and promote continuing professional education in the teaching profession.”<\/p>\n
According to the PRO, \u201canyone who cannot make meaning of this clause clearly has no business issuing fallacious statements to court disaffection for the GES as an implementating agency, the NTC as a regulator and the functional teacher unions (CPD providers). <\/p>\n
He dismissed the perception that the service providers were using the CPD as a money-making venture, insisting that a specific category of directors of education were required to pay a GH\u00a275 charge. <\/p>\n
He explained that the total CPD points that teachers were expected to accrue each year for a period of three years were based on the rank and grade of the teacher.<\/p>\n
CPD points<\/strong><\/p>\n The PRO said the total CPD points differed across all ranks and that explained why teachers on the rank of Senior Superintendent II, and Assistant Director II, were expected to accrue 70 and 85 points respectively.<\/p>\n \u201cA teacher can access training from the employer \u2014 GES, either at the school level through professional learning communities (PLC) and these trainings, which come with no charges, also generate CPD points for teachers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He said the CPD framework was online and readily available on the NTC teacher portal, adding that a lot of the NTC approved CPD service providers had been taking teachers through the framework.<\/p>\n \u201cI am confident that recognised teacher unions will work with educational authorities to uplift the image of teachers in Ghana,\u201d Mr Osei-Owusu said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n