Final year students of Komenda College of education receive a day sensitization workshop from NTC on the new reforms in the GTLE

The National Teaching Council, NTC met the final year students of Komenda College of Education on 6th September 2022 at the College’s ICT laboratory and enlightened them about the New reforms in the Ghana Teachers Licensure Examination(GTLE).

Being mandated by the Education Act 2008 (Act 778), section 9 to improve the professional standing and status of teachers and to license and register teachers in Ghana, they educated the students on their chores to the pedagogy fraternity as well as to the nation, and these include;

1. To advise the Minister of Education on issues on education about teachers.
2. To examine license.
3. To register teachers who satisfied the condition for the issues of licensure exams.
4. To keep and maintain and register duly qualified teachers.
5. To develop conduct of ethics and professional practice for the teachers.
6. To accredit in collaboration with relevant agencies, institutions offering teacher education and development programme.
7. To recommend to the minister professional standard for the registration of teachers and issuance of licenses to teachers.
8. To revoke the license of a teacher after a case of professional misconduct is established

Emphasizing the need for the licensure examination, students were made to comprehend the examination is meant to sieve prospective teachers to acquire a professional license.

“It’s a way to measure the level of competence of prospective teachers” an NTC official asserted.

Students were told NTC desires to see the teaching profession inhabited by teachers who are instilled with high professional standards and ready to deliver the highest quality education to improve learning outcomes

Adding that the reform is aimed at improving the 2022 GTLE results.

It was also disclosed at the workshop that, the new reforms include the introduction of subject-based testing which will examine the proficiency of teachers in their areas of specialization and the introduction of Computer-Based Testing (CBT) as the faculty is doing away with paper and pen testing currently ongoing.

Students were made to understand NTC has put measures in place to make preparatory materials accessible online for practice. And once a candidate registers for the examination, he/she will have access to them.