The Upper East Regional Director of Education, Razak Z. Abdul-Korah, has urged teachers participating in a training workshop on play-based learning to focus on applying the knowledge and skills acquired to improve teaching and learning in their classrooms.
Mr. Abdul-Korah made the call when he visited the four-day training workshop being held at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in the Upper East Region.
The workshop, which began on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, and ends Friday, September 11, is bringing together teachers and selected district staff from four beneficiary schools in the Kasena-Nankana Municipality and Kasena-Nankana West District.
The beneficiary schools are Kongwania Primary School and JHS in the Kasena-Nankana Municipality, 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 adopt play-based and learner-centred approaches to teaching.
Participants are being trained in playful learning activities, the Catalyst Project, adolescent reproductive health and sexuality, and classroom management techniques for teaching Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH).
Addressing the participants, Mr. Abdul-Korah urged them not to measure the value of the training solely in monetary terms but to consider the difference the skills acquired could make in the classroom.
He also challenged supervisors and monitors to ensure that the training translates into practical changes in teaching and learning.
The Regional Director said he would personally monitor the implementation of the project in the four beneficiary schools to assess its impact.
“I will put an eye on the four schools and write a report on it for further action.”
The practical component of the workshop will see participants conduct demonstration lessons with learners today, Friday, September 11, to apply some of the approaches and techniques introduced during the training.
The 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 four beneficiary schools are expected to receive teaching and learning materials to support the implementation of the project.
Right To Play Education Specialist, Kwabena Gao, and Health Specialist, Khadija Hamidu, are facilitating the workshop, while the Regional School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinator of the GES, Mark Adune, is also participating.
The initiative is expected to strengthen teachers’ ability to use practical and playful approaches in the classroom while creating supportive learning environments for addressing adolescent reproductive and sexual health issues.
Credit: PR Unit, GES UER
