All About The Teachers Professional Development Allowance Introduced By Government

The President mentioned it briefly in his STATE OF THE NATION’S address without explanation. Yesterday, the Education Minister also reechoed it during his press briefing and added a little flesh. But there are still dozens of questions to be answered. Follow me and let’s use our common sense to find answers to some of the questions whiles we wait for them to come clear on the rest.

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Understanding The Teachers Professional Development Allowance Introduced By Government

Who is a PROFESSIONAL?

Being a professional means, working and behaving in such a way that others think of you as competent, reliable and respectful.

What is PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT?

Personal and Professional development is the process through which the organization and individual engage in the process of learning to meet the challenges and desire goal.

What is an ALLOWANCE?

An allowance is an amount of money given or allotted to an employee usually at regular intervals for a specific purpose.(In this case professional development)

What is PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ALLOWANCE?

PDA is a reimbursement of an expenditure or payment of financial assistance (as in the case of advance payment) to an employee who has been employed in the Professional stream for the specified qualifying period, to offset professional development costs.

Why the NEED for professional development?

The purpose of professional development is to improve knowledge and skills in order to facilitate individual, school-wide, and district-wide improvements for the purpose of increasing students achievement.

What WARRANTS the PAYMENT of professional development allowance to teachers?

1. Newly arrived CONDITION OF SERVICE.
2. TEACHERS LICENSE and it’s renewal terms and conditions. You have to build points by attending workshops, seminars any other professional development courses to build point to be able to renew your license.
3. The introduction of the NEW STANDARDS BASED CURRICULUM. This also gave birth a new normal known as PLC and CPDD. Professional learning communities where teacher meet one hour once every week to share ideas. Continouse Professional development day where learners stay at home and teachers go to school and use the whole day to share ideas regarding their profession and how to improve upon it.

What is the ESSENCE OF THE ALLOWANCE?

1. The Allowance is to motivate teachers to take part in professional development. PLCs, CPDDs, INSET etc
2. The allowance is also to pay in advance or offset the cost teachers would incur in attending paid workshops. Circuits may organize, Districts may organize, NGOs may organize, A branch under NTC known as Continouse profesionalsm development Providers may also organize. Some would be free, some would not.
3. This also implies that, when this allowances starts coming, no teacher would have an excuse to give for not attending a workshop for a certain stipulated period.

Would IN-SERVICE TEACHERS who do not have licence also receive the allowance?

NTC, GES and MOE are in talks with teacher unions and other relevant stakeholders to arrive at a common ground on how to licence in-service teachers. When that is done, it will be duely communicated.

How Much Is The Teachers Professional Development Allowance

The allowance is Gh1200 AND Gh600.

When Will The Teacher Professional Development Allowance

As for when it will start hitting account and the mode of payment, its yet to be disclosed. Whether it would e paid in chunk at the end of year or it would be divided and paid on monthly bases, we are yet to find out.

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