Time to re-engineer academic curricula – Educationist

It has become necessary to re-engineer academic curricula using more focused and appropriate methods that go beyond cognitive mastery of disciplines, an educational manager, has said.

Mrs Cynthia Siaw Agyapong, the manager, said the re-engineering should apply instructive approaches that would instill discipline in children.

“There is the need for a new vision and paradigm of quality education calling for major changes in policies, practices, means of service deliveries and linkages with local and global institutions,” Mrs Siaw Agyapong, the Executive Director of the Liberty American School, said in an inaugural speech at the school’s launch.

Located at East Legon, the Liberty American School is an international school, with stages from the pre-school level to high school and which runs on Ghanaian and American curricula.

Mrs Siaw Agyapong said there was the need to train children in an atmosphere of academic excellence and to re-engineer academic curricula to make them IT enabled and globally competitive.

She called for collaboration and teamwork among education administrators, teachers, instructors and parents with the values of teamwork, love, co-operation, hope and understanding to make all good things to advance qualitative of education possible.

Mr Marsden Crosby, an educationist with 45 years experience, who got the school started, advised parents and the family of pupils to partner with teachers in the education of children saying, “the partnership is absolutely necessary for good functional education”.

He said children imitate about 80 per cent of the character of the teachers who instruct them and appealed to teachers and parents to inculcate good moral qualities in children.

Mr Ato Conduah, an educationist and management consultant, who is a member of the school’s board, pledged that the school’s board would ensure maintenance of quality standards.

Siource: GNA