By Benard Worlali Awumee
Whuti, (V/R), Nov. 23, GNA – The Right to Play Ghana, has held a close-out ceremony for Partners in Play Project (P3), to celebrate the achievements of creating a playful environment for children and educators in the Volta Region.
It was on the theme: “Play-Based Learning, Innovative Pedagogy for the 21st Century Learning”.
The Right to Play in partnership with the Elma Foundation and the LEGO Foundation collaborated with the Ghana Education Service since 2020 in implementing the P3.
Its key focus lies on projects to support the effective implementation of the new standard-based curriculum, which encourages teachers to utilise creative pedagogies including play-based learning (PBL) to improve overall learning outcomes.
Mr Evans Sinkari, the Project Director, Right to Play Ghana in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, said though the project had officially ended, they expected its impact to continue with the huge investments made.
“Working with University of Education, Winneba and Colleges of Education was an instrumental strategy to help Right to Play to explore long term investment in building capacity of future graduate teachers in respect for the new curriculum.”
Mr Maxwell Denakpor, the Programme Officer congratulated the various Directors and Headteachers who played pivotal roles in making the project a success.
The works of Right to Play have been very pivotal in building the capacity of both teachers and headteachers through workshops, regular monitoring, teacher recognition events, coaching and mentoring programmes.
It also includes provision of teacher-learner resources and supporting professional learning community (PLC) sessions which all helped in increasing child participation in lessons as well as parents’ involvement in addressing learning needs of children.
About 40 schools benefited from the project in the Region under the direct and indirect approach.
GNA