The Regional Director of Education (RDE), Razak Z. Abdul-Korah, has visited a four-day teacher training workshop on play-based learning being held at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in the Upper East Region.
The workshop, which began on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, and ends tomorrow, Friday, September 11, brings together teachers and selected District staff from four beneficiary schools in the Kasena-Nankana Municipal and Kasena-Nankana West District. The beneficiary schools are Kongwania Primary School and JHS in the Kasena-Nankana Municipal and Nyangania Primary School and JHS in the Kasena-Nankana West District.
The training forms part of the Catalyst Project, which seeks to strengthen teachers’ capacity to use play-based and learner-centred approaches in the classroom. Participants are being taken through a range of topics, including playful learning activities, the Catalyst Project, adolescent reproductive health and sexuality, as well as classroom management techniques for teaching Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH).
Addressing participants during his visit, the RDE urged them to look beyond the monetary value attached to the training and focus instead on the impact they could make in the classroom. He challenged supervisors and monitors to ensure that the knowledge and skills acquired were translated into actual classroom practice.
The RDE further indicated that he would personally monitor the implementation of the project in the four beneficiary schools. According to him, he would “put an eye on the four schools and write a report on it for further action.”
As part of the practical component of the workshop, participants are expected to conduct demonstration lessons with learners tomorrow, Friday, September 11, to put into practice some of the approaches and techniques acquired during the training.
The four-day training is being facilitated by Right To Play, in collaboration with the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, the University of the Fraser Valley, Canada, and the Ghana Education Service (GES). Following the training, the beneficiary schools are expected to receive teaching and learning materials relevant to the implementation of the project.
The facilitators from Right To Play are Kwabena Gao, Education Specialist, and Khadija Hamidu, Health Specialist. The Regional School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinator, GES Mark Adune, is also participating in the training.
The ongoing initiative is expected to enhance teachers’ ability to employ playful and practical approaches to teaching and learning while creating a supportive classroom environment for addressing adolescent reproductive and sexual health issues.
Mike 105.3 FM | Navrongo | PR Unit, GES UER
