Workshop on inclusive education at Asesewa

Forty teachers and educationists in the Upper Manya Krobo District have benefited from a capacity building workshop on inclusive education at Asesewa.

The workshop, organised jointly by the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) and Plan-Ghana, was to enable teachers to identify special needs of their pupils in the classroom and to offer the necessary helping hand.

Mrs Joyce D. Larnyoh, Country Director of ICDP, said the workshop was mainly to develop better understanding of inclusion and to identify the use of appropriate strategies in inclusive classroom. 

That, she said, would enhance academic development and encourage the search for approaches that would facilitate the education and development of all children.

In a speech read on his behalf, Mr Joseph Tetteh Angmor, District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Upper Manya Krobo, implored the teachers to take advantage of the workshop to enable them to churn out better adults. 

“This workshop is timely and very important because it will help you participants to cater for the needs of children in your classrooms,” he said. 

Mr Seth Nyame, a workshop facilitator, said that inclusive education was mainly about ensuring that every child had access to quality education to develop their potentials irrespective of their status.

He, therefore, reminded teachers of their crucial role in helping children attain quality education.

Mr Jeremiah Badu Shayar, a co-ordinator of ICDP, also indicated that inclusive education was about ensuring that physical, social and psychological barriers among others, which are likely to prevent a child’s education and development, are identified and removed.

“And you teachers are the front runners to identify and eliminate all barriers that would affect your children’s educational development in the classroom,” he said.

GNA.